Interested to hear about weird and wonderful audio artifacts nestled in your collections. Strictly no knowing artists doing it for irony or creativity - I'm talking about bizarre, incongruous things pressed onto wax or dubbed onto tape for the purposes of education/entertainment/promotion/advertisement. The kind that you probably found sitting around in a thrift/charity shop and simply had to have despite knowing how infrequently you'd ever listen to it. Youtube links to audio and/or pics would be great but even just good stories will do.
A few of mine:
Hobby Pharm Apothecaries of Jazz vol.1 (Cassette) Recording of a jazz band made up entirely of pharmacists to celebrate 25 years of over the counter Panadol (I'm pretty sure this was released by Panadol themselves). Totally bollocks dixie/swing jazz but packaged in a dazzling silver cassette, case and cover presumably designed to look like a packet of pain killers.
https://www.verygoodplus.co.uk/forum/let-s-talk/let-s-get-stuck-into-the-music/1046514-weird-and-bizarre-music-items-you-have-boughtMichael Aspel - Sounds of the Sea (Flexi Disc) Nice looking flexi disc detailing a 'journey in sound' across the seven seas. Has loads of BBC sound recordings of sea life and boats while national treasure Michael Aspel narrates. Brilliantly, this was produced by British blackcurrant cordial manufacturer Ribena and could originally be obtained by sending a certain number of foil Ribena lids away with 50p to a PO Box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxZNKpOiM7w
What Goes Up Must Come Down! The High Flying Humour of David Gunson (Cassette/LP) Live recording of a standup comedy set by after dinner speaker and former air traffic controller David Gunson. I had the cassette version and couldn't get through it all but a lot of the stand up material was based around quite specific aviation references iirc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KbUNzi58wMMemories of Ireland presented by Guinness (Flexi Disc) Something of a whistlestop tour of the Emerald Isle narrated by Val Joyce. Interestingly enough a lot of Guinness based tourist attractions are recommended which leads to a great bit inside a pub where a well spoken man says 'Guinness, please' and you hear the sound of a pint being poured.
Anglican Adams Preaching Society of Nigeria Led by Rev. Evang. J. D. Okpidama (LP) Not much going on here - it's just a sermon in a nigerian church - but the cover was so amazing it was a must. Has some good bass guitar at certain moments. Made in Nigeria and released via Sammy Records.
John Jacobs - Dr Golf (LP) Exhaustive golf tutorial by former Ryder Cup star. Side 2 is the best because it ends with some ladies asking him about golf and then him being letchy 1970s cunt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMbHGnFDnrMCome Aboard! QE2 (LP) Description on discogs does it more justice than I can -
'Released to coincide with the Launch of the Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise liner in 1969. Album consists of two sides of spoken word and sound effects mixed with various bands and acts that played on the opening tour of the QE2. Sold only on the QE2 and at various ports of call. There is no track listing, only names and music styles of the bands.' Camp as all fuck.
Will post more if/as I remember.
