Oddity Archive: Episode 35 - Kiddie Disco Records
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I had a Disco Mickey Mouse record when I was really young. I remember boogy-ing to "It's a Small World". Oh, the blissfully ignorant days of my youth! I also had The Chipmunks Punk record. Now that was awesome. I read that it actually went platinum.
the riff from that disco version of It's A Small World, you'd recognize now from the song Praise You.
I knew there were children's punk albums.
Had both of them. Have MMD in CD now (burned to my MP3 collection, btw). My current faves are Disco Mickey Mouse and Mousetrap.
Chipmunk punk was hard feckin core
@@tolfan4438 um, IIIII wouldn't go that far. lol
Long before the musical abominations known as "Kidz Bop", there was kiddie disco. Have we no sense of decency?
+TimelordR At least they were better than Kidz Bop.
+Callie Ray. and +TimelordR I'm still awaiting the KidzBop death metal cover album.
+TimelordR Well, this IS a CHANNELL that deals with 40 or so year old knockoff record albums. Was not new with Kidz Bop LOL!
@Maryse Bowen The playlist does not exist. Neither does God.
@Maryse Bowen Yeah, I kow..I beleive in HIM, kinda like African Americans say the offense N word themsellves, not s
They left out the ultimate kids disco record, "Sesame Street Fever" with Robin Gibb.
With an actual Gibb brother, Likely too legitimate musically to riff!
I also have another Kid Stuff Repertory Company LP called “Songs From ‘Saturday Night Fever’” and it was meh. I listened to the album and it doesn’t sound like the Bee Gees to me.
Especially like that second album, it only had 6 tracks, and two songs were severely padded out at the end.
@@Musicradio77Network Why would a kids label release a "soundtrack" for a movie that's rated R? (yes I know that there was a PG cut but still)
@@80sDisneyFan Just like they did with “Rambo” when it was an animated series based off the R-rated film, and later a toy figure based off the R-rated film.
You can probably fit every kids song into the same disco tune.
I recently found a disco Version of Jesus loves me on Apple Music, it was really awesome. I know one thing, Jesus loves disco, oh yeah who says God doesn’t like to boogie!🤣
7:27 You named the un-nameable.
Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!
*gets flashbacks to being a Jehovah's Witness* Jesus...
Drugs will keep us together!
What no Sesame Street Disco....
I was hoping for that one myself. The cover is classic parody.
"ALL WHITE DISCO KIDS! THE FUNK HAS JUST BEGUN!" Ben,George Clinton should here that! Sounds like something he'd say! I love it!
"DRUGS will keep us together!" - Ronald Reagan (secretly)
Kinda disappointed he didn't stumble onto the HORRIFIC Peter Pan cover "Irwin Sings Sesame Street"
Then again, I'm more relieved. Even the cover is nightmare inducing!
Wow this is petty horrible. Mixing horrible commercialized Disco covers with kiddie music. This is like mixing bleach and ammonia.
Red Davis At least when you combine those two, the suffering ends quickly.
Acids and bases if you ask me.
I completely lost it on the Irwin "Translations", thanks for the laugh.
Sidebar: Somewhere in the nether recesses of my basement, I actually have A DIFFERENT "Irwin The Disco Duck" album by Peter Pan Records left over from my childhood. This one is a compilation of Kids Songs including some cuts from another album called "Sesame Street Fever" (Oh, how I wish I was making THAT album up. The late Robin Gibb is on it & everything).
The "Interesting" thing about this album is that Irwin is actually--dare I say--Verbal. No attempt to sound like Donald Duck, thankfully (If anything, it sounds like a sped up Phyllis Diller). Hopefully I can find it someday, but I'm sure it's on YT anyway.
He also became the "Dynamic Duck" rather than "Disco Duck", possibly due to a trademark infringement. I first heard the album here checked out from the public library and thought it was the REAL Disco Duck album at the time.
I had the entire collection, ultimately there were 4 or 5 Irwin the Disco/Dynamic Duck records.
That's the one my friend had! Too bad he no longer does. 😞
I just found the Irwin the Disco Duck topic here on TH-cam; five whole albums have been posted, including a Christmas album.
"Watch Out For Goofy" would be a nice wedding dance, when the bridegroom is less talented in dancing.
Cheapo record companies like Synthetic Products who owned Peter Pan did that all the time. They'd record songs that were heading up the chart and rush out an competing crap album. I'm just amazed that they didn't get sued by Disney for the design of Irwin. The success of Irwin's albums likely caused Disney to release the Mickey Mouse Disco LP. PS: Find the Kids Stuff "Songs from Sgt Peppers and other Movies" album - they do a cover of "Shaft"!
+JangleRadio365 Peter Pan also loved to use George Peed to do those covers when possible.
+Christopher Sobieniak His eye-popping artwork was the classiest thing about those Peter Pan albums, even when the music and vinyl was terrible.
I'm glad D****y didn't. They already own the paper on 2 much of American Popular Culture.
In addition, IJE/Kid Stuff Records was not in New York City, it was in Hollywood, Florida which is north of Miami and south of Fort Lauderdale.
I am totally gonna use Chim Chim Cher ee as a music bed on my podcast.
DUDE! LOVE YOUR SHOW!!! I have subscribed to both channels! Seriously cracking up over this episode, your commentary is absolutely hilarious! Plus I have learned a s***load! Keep em coming, this show is awesome!!!
Irwin studied speech patterns with his college roommate, later known as The Ultimate Warrior.
Irwin could use a good speech therapist.
I have the Mickey Mouse Disco album on tape in my parents' basement. I didn't listen to it nearly as often as I did the Mousercise record.
"Sue Me Love Saw" - I can't even. BWAHAHAHAAAA! Made the mistake of drinking green tea as I watched this...and almost spewed it all over my monitor, I was laughing so hard.
I ran a kiddie records blog many years ago, and I developed quite a love/hate relationship with Kid Stuff Records. Everything you said about them was true on all of their records (small amount of songs and VERY extended remixes). I think my favorites were "Songs from 'Your a Good Man, Charlie Brown'" (Yeah, they really said "Your".) and the Elton John album they did that featured cheesy covers with each song preceded by a woman who read the lyrics to the song out loud in that wonderful second-grade teacher way. Thanks for the great work your doing here! (I mean "you're"!)
The Best Kid Stuff Record would have to be 1978's Star Wars For Kids (which featured the riveting space tale of Jack and The Flying Saucer)
Clearly I'm not the only one that bursted out laughing to the Disco Duck translations!😂😂😂
Geez I just looked up disco demolition night and it was chaos
Thank you for bringing back my childhood, I had this record on vinyl when I was a kid, thanks for the memories.
In 2013, Fisher Price Little People put out an album called “Summer Camp Sing Along” which had two very white 5-year old white girls singing “zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah”. I played this song at 12:22am on December 22, 2020 on an overnight bus from Adelaide to Melbourne using headphones. This playing tells lots of tales about the song and its history…
"Shave, Shane, SHAVE!" I lol'd
The Walt Disco's characters looks really like disco, as would they go to a collection of records.
I once worked in a box factory (For real, actual cardbord boxes! Maybe I made Ben's!?! ,LOL) When loading flat "shippers" into their containers, they looked like coffins. In my head, I'd "sing" (in my head): "A tisket..a tasket..,A corrugated casket!!
I loved Disney Disco record, and I still do. It's a crime you can't get it on CD. :(
Thanks for doing this one, even though you didn't care for the subject. I had the full collection of Disco Duck Dance Party albums and remember them fondly. My dad even liked the first album well enough to make a (reel to reel) tape recording for himself! As for Mickey Mouse Disco, I have no real memory of that album, but the cover looked so familiar, and I found that I remembered the "Watch Out For Goofy" song. Maybe my brother or sister had that album...
Did any one else have coffee come out of their nose at the "Mrs. Robinson" line?!?!
I like these disco versions a lot being a big fan of it.
2:58 THE GREEEEEATEST BAND! AND THEY'LL GIIIVE THE BOOGIE TO YA, MAAAKE IT GO RIGHT THROUGH YA, ROOOCK YOU FROM YOUR HEAD TO YOUR SHOOOOES! 🎶
Easin' on down. The Wiz? You clever man
You've got to divot and buoy! Another great OA episode, sir! I love it.
Even as a Pittsburgher, I gotta give it up to Chicago for what they did in '79!!! Ironically My Pirates won the World Series that year ----- With a famous disco record as a "rally song"...Natch!
"Go Russia!"
I never did like "December 1963", but that cover is absolutely awful. The singers lose tune a few times.
Can you do an oddity archive video on the fitness craze of the 1980s featuring the kiddie exercise record Mousercise and other kiddie records like that? I think this year is the 40th anniversary of the fitness craze and I wondered if you could do a video on the history of it and how it began. When I was a kid I used to have Mousercise on the vinyl record as well as the Mickey Mouse disco album and those are my favorites and I love those two albums thank you for playing the Mickey Mouse disco album in this video. So I was wondering if you could do a video on the history of the 1980s fitness craze featuring the Mousercise album and then the other kitty fitness records like that if you can find them and then maybe some of the regular workout stuff they had back then to show what it was like, however you want to do it it’s OK I just thought maybe you could feature that record since you featured Mickey Mouse disco in this video and other kitty disco records.
7:45 you can turn any waltz into Disco. Walt Disco wouldn't like it, but he died in the 1960's.
Well in the US (and other English speaking markets) he was called Jose but I see in Brazil they chose to name him "Ze Carioca" anyway.
I got robbed by snobs!
They took all the flat-black-plastic AV stuff and turned their noses up at the silver-plastic stuff (this was the late 80s, K?) A detective took an inconclusive fingerprint off my pretty nice (but insultingly out-dated style-wise) receiver. At least he humored me over my distress. What broke my heart most was that the scoundrel(s) took my new turntable which I'd dubbed a "full-size disc player" (as opposed to "compact disc player") since it had a motorized sliding drawer on which to place an actual vinyl LP (like a PC's optical drive)... and a little laser on the stylus head would detect the shiny spots between tracks and play whichever songs were selected... thus totally imitating the performance of th' new-fangled CD players that were becoming available at great cost.
Sigh. Now I'm sad and should go to bed.
holy shit! That exists? or are you trollin?
So some Tom Tugs took your items and dosh?
TheGamerWithMore ...you mean about the turntable? No, really existed. It was cool.
The DD Erwin subtitle segment had me in tears laughing... it was just the right kind of dumb humor for me. Thanks ben.
Also as a side note. I've had a small fascination with disco duck due to todd in the shadows who talked about the song in both his worst of 1976 list and one hit wonderland on the song itself. My brother then found a copy of the single at a garage sale and bought it for me for about three fitty. So now i am the (not too) proud owner of disco duck on vinyl.
15:36 The people who produced this record, were requested to do a pretty weird thing, to turn the few seconds of a nursery rhyme into a long song.
They did the best, what was possible and this is the optimum.
It's the same, as would you be requested to cook a soup for 40 persons, but they give you the ingridients for one portion only, so you can't judge the cook, that the result is some warm water with some hardly recognizable flavour.
At least, the real stupid person is the person who had the idea, to turn the short musical phrases into long songs.
i'm like laughing right now. i go from one of the albums i'm watching about to another video i recently saw where they tried to torch it and destroy it and melt it LOL.
I have SOOOOO many Irwin albums, and at some point his voice was changed to a Casey Kasem-like voice (probably in order not to get sued by that one mouse corporation). And the solo in that version of "Love Will Keep Us Together" sounds like KK Slider from the Animal Crossing franchise.
I have a about 19 or 20 Kid Stuff LP’s in my collection, 16 of them are “Strawberry Shortcake” albums and two of them were done by the Kid Stuff Repertory Company from 1977 through 1979. They also put out their albums based on children’s stories that sounds like a radio dramas, and then put out a series of soundalike albums in 1978 and 1979. In the 1980’s, they also put out a series of albums based on character licenses including Strawberry Shortcake, Raggedy Ann & Andy, Care Bears, Fat Albert, Pink Panther, Benji, GI Joe, Transformers, the original My Little Pony, and many more.
The last Kid Stuff albums were released around 1986 are two soundtrack albums to the “Care Bears Movie 2” and the original “My Little Pony: The Movie”, and the last Kid Stuff read-along book and record or tape of any kind was “The Popples Nutcracker Christmas” were released in late 1986 until the label folded.
IJE was their parent company of Kid Stuff Records which was owned by Irwin Schwartz in 1977. By 1985, IJE bought LJN when it was a toy company, not the same company that the AVGN was referenced in so many episodes of the Nerd. And then, he formed Gabco and IJE created GameTek when it was a video game publisher in 1987 where they put out a series of game show themed video games for the NES and other systems including “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune”.
13:30 - I still have that album.
The “Tunes For Tots: Disco Style” album which I don’t have it in my collection right now. I will be planning on getting it in the future. I checked Discogs and I saw this album, and it goes to a whopping $50 or up. That’s crazy!
7:50 a waltz in 4/4 has always this beguine style melody.
the precursor to tween wave?
18:42 It took me forever to realize that was a Svengoolie reference.
28:08 Almost sounds like the drive motor in their recording equipment was on it's way out, but they left it in because they thought it sounded cool.
When I heard Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Chim Chim Cheree, I instantly remembered that sequence in The Great Movie Ride.
I spat my coffee out when I heard Irwin and saw the translations.
Listening to disco versions of disney songs does sound amusing :D
There was another album called “Mickey Unrapped” released in 1994 featuring rap parodies of other hits including Tag Team’s “Whoomp! There It Went” a parody of “Whoomp! There It Is”, and “Whatta Mouse”, a parody of “Whattaman” by En Vogue and Salt & Pepa. That was long after “Mickey Mouse Disco” was stood the test of time.
@0:28; and there you are with Irwin in full glory on your box! lol
21:44 There is a German version of Disco Duck but much funnier.
It tells the story of a clumsy Tarzan, who goes from USA to Africa, because it's mother day and instead meeting his adoptive mother, he meets that he falls in a hole or notices while swimming, that the white shark isn't his best friend.
The hookline is "Tarzan is back again, hero of the jungle, never falls on his face".
On TV it was presented with a fat singer, dressed with a tiger fur and two female dancers who wear chimpanese ears.
th-cam.com/video/GWZEpML_opE/w-d-xo.html
Good episode! I still have my copy of "Mickey Mouse Disco" in my collection, but it's still in good shape. I had this since I was a kid, but I lost it years ago, but I still got which I had it for years. The song "It's A Small World" from "Mickey Mouse Disco" was later sampled by Fat Boy Slim entitled "Praise You" which came out in the 90's, thanks to the intro break beat in the song. I've never heard of "Tunes For Tots" with kid songs disco style. I would love to hear the full "Tunes For Tots" album. My nephew and niece would love it. I hope if there is a link for download available.
18:06 I came here because of Todd in the Shadows’ “One Hit Wonderland” episode.
And I thought Kidz Bop was cringe inducing
Little brown jug is about maple syrup?! As a kid from the south, I always thought it mean a jug of moonshine.
Call me crazy, but that break in Little Brown Jug at 17:04 was pretty funky.
Don't think even Brian Wilson would like that version of Shortenin Bread❤❤❤
Apparently they also need a bridge selling to them...
you know in Japan, they have Disney Eurobeat??
I would call the company with the Rumpelstiltskin Syndrome maybe "Uncle Scrooge Films".
It’s hard watching him go through all this damn hate mail. I wouldn’t even give it a first look. Let alone a 2nd or 3rd.
The Kids Stuff one sounds like it could have been improvised on set during Match Game commercial breaks. It probably would have turned out better if it had been.
I have a few Kid Stuff LP’s including three “Strawberry Shortcake” albums and I’m not a fan of “Strawberry Shortcake” in general, but the soundtracks are cool, and it does have Flo & Eddie of the Turtles singing their songs on there and Russi Taylor was the voice of Strawberry Shortcake and also appeared on any of the albums as well.
Oh, and Irwin sounded NOTHING like that in the version my friend had and I borrowed (long story on that one). He had a relatively normal speaking voice on our version. Peter Pan must've screwed it up and made him more "Donald" sounding. I'm actually sad this happened.☹ Oh, and the segues between the songs were much more connected with Irwin talking and background noise like one was in a disco or show of some kind.
Pardon me for being behind the curve, however, why is Disney bleeped out and the written version censored?
From what I've gathered, the running gag is Disney and WGN are so sensitive to potential copyright violations that if you even mention their name, your ass is toast.
Some good Did you know...
Fat Boy Slim samples the Mickey Mouse Disco album for his song Praise You.
I had Macho Duck! Hearing this now, it puts me in mind of, Funky Worm, by the Ohio Players. Not sure why?
How are Rio de Janeiro and sombrero related? That's a bad mistake by the songwriters. Also, José isn't spelled like that in Portuguese.
6:30 I had this as a really little kid (like 4 or 5). I played it constantly. Between this and Moucercise I don’t know how my family didn’t shoot me. Edit: added time stamp
Disco duck was the same year as I was born, I love that song (Guilty Pleasure), it is possible that Rick Dees cut that track in late 75, but it took a while to hit the top. Also the etched date could be fake.
16:20 it's lullaby because it's so boring. And the singers are so enthusiastic
I tried for years to find Mickey Mouse disco on CD, and I haven’t found it on CD yet I wish that they still would have it available well I can always try and find the vinyl record I had as a kid hopefully.
Just a little confused. Why was this brought over here? I read something about a "Blipocalypse" from the blog but wasn't sure if that was a joke or something happened. :/
Other than that though, I enjoyed the episode.
What the fuck, How did Disco Duck do that good?
a lot of people did Drugs in the 70's
Hm, they forbid you to mention Walt Dixie?
i'm having nightmares tonight thanks to you !! disco -sucks!@! especially kids records rip-offs that i somehow danced too in the late 70's as a child. nightmares !!!
Gone already.
Is there a joke I missed about Ben not saying the D-word?
+Betapunk Films You missed it. Since well, they (and that really famous Chicago Station) are known to be rough with fair use and copyrights on the TH-cam.
He said disney but he is afraid of copyright of disneys copyrighted name that doesn't matter possibly on youtube but in other crap
I guess
I thought it was more of a jab at Disney (sort of like how some people type 'Micro$oft or 'Walm*rt'; the latter is ironic since Walmart's logo is an asterisk now).
Gee thanks! I was trying to erase that dang Micky Mouse Disco album out of my head for some 30 years now and just like that it's fresh again. Yep, it was a cheap cash-in for Disney. Thank you to Disco Demolition Night for helping to kill off this stupid fad!
Danielle Pluzsik all you did was made me hungry for Strawberry Shortcake. gee, thanks, Danielle! LOL
And after “Mickey Mouse Disco” came “Sesame Disco” featuring “The Happiest Street In The World”, “Disco Frog”, “What Makes Music”, “Me Lost Me Cookie At The Disco”, “Doin’ The Trash” and disco versions of “Sing” and “Bein Green” are on the album.
Even as a kid of the 70's, I would have thought, 'WTF?', about this apparent genre of, 'music.' When you'd rather listen to Father Abraham and the Smurfs than these records, then you know something is seriously wrong with them..! 🤣
This episode gave me pain lots and lots of pain. Irwin needs to hunted down for a duck dinner. Thanks Ben
26:00 They had better made an album with the Disco Mouse.
19:55 Ok, wouldn't there be the words "GEORGE PEED", I wouldn't know the meaning of the yellow spots on the dance floor.
Disco Duck's girl friend shows, that she doesn't need underwear or to keep her butt hidden by the dress.
You need to take a look at Mickey Unrapped.
Todd in the Shadows mentioned it in a “One Hit Wonderland” episode on Tag Team’s “Whoomp! There It Is” and it he did talked about “Mickey Unrapped”.
I used to be a pretty big fan of George Peed, but didn't like how the fans called themselves Peedphiles.
Whoa whoa whoa, you let the D-word in uncensored at 2:41! Great video though, that duck in the third video really needs to be clear in what he's saying.
Nursery rhymes for dancing
ritual disco tracks to bring up the dead ,
sesame street fever
last micky mouse dsco and sesame street fever irnocally were at the end of the disco era
Why do you cut out the word Disney as a bad word?
Uncle Scrooge records dislike to mention Wall Dixie's name.
One of my "ex"s was Nancy,from Bensonhurst!, We Met in '76!- Yo, Nancy, New York Stuff!!!
You need drugs to get through this
It is, unfortunately, blocked on mobile devices in this country (when it was ID'd, I lost control of what platforms this video is available on). You're not the first person to report it not working on mobile devices. Indeed, it won't work on my iPad. Believe me, this ain't the first Archive episode for this to happen to.
Have you done an exercise LP episode? This made me think of the Miss Piggy one...and, for some reason, the Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker Christmas album my mom had.
I'm in a weird mood.
don't fruit freddy
I have the Mickey Mouse Disco Record.