Me and a friend went to New York around 1968 and went to MADison ave. Went to the mad office and in the lobby was a statue off Alfred . The clock was going backwards . Out the window was a giant face of king Kong. We were laughing and the Secretary said " are you mad! They gave us a tour. Were are the writers? They send it in from Florida. We see this old guy wandering around. Long hair, beard. "That's bill Gaines the publisher "we are not worthy! We are not worthy! Vertucci15 on u
Where is Dr. Demento when you need him? I remember the good Dr. playing this tune on his famous radio show back in the early 70's...got a tape of this from his show somewhere around here.
@SoftballRulz7 Google for "what me worry?" which was the tag line.
When I was 12, I thought the magazine was so good with all its offbeat humor, hillarious parodies and caricatures. Haven't bought it in years but now at the age of 60, have a MAD Magazine cover on the wall over my desk. On the office Avacado tree, I put a nameplate "Arthur"... it's an in-joke.
Totally takes me back to the 7th grade, circa 1977! One of my favorite songs from Dr. Demento! Along with "Titties and Beer", "The Smoke-Off" & "Moose Turd Pie"! I could go on and on, LOL! Thanks for posting this!
I remember these records. Yes, great sax / King Curtis solo! Wonder who did the guitar work? For the question: Who is Alfred E. Neuman? He is George Duhbya Bush's birth father. Coined the phrase, "What me worry?" that was Duhbya's mantra after that.
Can it be verified that King Curtis really played the sax solo, beyond the fact that Wikipedia says it's so? I kinda find it hard to believe that Mad, in making a cheap and cheesy rock record, would hire a guy who was at that time the hottest sax session player in New York.
This is STILL funny to me after all these years..I think I got my first mad when I was about 12 or so..I'm 58 now! Dont read the current mads anymore..but still have the memories!
My brother had this when I was a kid. I haven't thought of it in ages. Something made me think of it about five minutes ago and here it is! HaHaHa Thanks for putting it on here!
I need to hear Super Spectacular Day again. Anyone have this?
It was a flexi-disc from the 70's I believe.
It had multiple grooves in it so there were "7" different versions of the song I think. And it depended which groove it started in to which version you heard.
It had instruction say not to stop listening until you heard all "7". Being MAD I thought for sure there would be less then they stated thus leaving you playing it over and over looking for a version that did not exist. But they w
We had a record player that had a 16-2/3rpm speed as well as the faster stuff. This was a truly obnoxious sounding thing played at that slower speed. Sounded like my dad in the bathroom. My brother and I used to crack up like liitle idiots every time we played it. One day Mom took the record and cut it into pieces with a pair of scissors and tossed it in the trash. Ah, the memories...
I always loved the records and bumper stickers that came with the old Mad.
Mad magazine was warped, but in a kinder, gentler way than crap today. Mad has wound down from their heyday because, as their publisher said years ago, "the whole world has gone mad!" How true
I'm in tears laughing at this!! My brothers got this in Mad Magazine first run, then I inherited the record from them, eventually proud to be able to play that great guitar solo toward the end on my guitar.. now, so many years later, I'm cracking up like a little kid! Thanks for the fond memories!!! (bwwaaaaaarrrrppp)
I first heard this record on Doctor Demento back in the fall of 1975. Later, "MAD Bytes It" came out with a disc. It is the fourth track, after "Barely Alive" and "Blind Date". The first track is only available on computer.
WIKI: In 1959, "The Worst from Mad #2" included an original recording, "Meet the Staff of Mad," on a cardboard 33 rpm record. Two additional albums of novelty songs were released in 1962–63: "Mad 'Twists' Rock 'N' Roll" and "Fink Along with Mad." The latter album featured a song titled "It's a Gas," which punctuated an instrumental track with belches (along with a saxophone break by an uncredited King Curtis).
If I'm not mistaken, a bunch of these singles were released on an LP around 1962... and I hope someone, someday, will upload, "I Won't Make Fun of Her Moustache Anymore..."
Yes it came out about 1964. I know a record guy who says it did, and besides, I don't think they used organs that sounded like that in the 1950s! I also have a MAD magazine CD Rom for Windows that has every issue from 1969 -1974, but it has the covers to every single Mad Magazine from 1952 up until 1998.
Sorry guys but this came out in the 50's!!! Me and my little brother used to listen to it until it got so warped and scratched that we had to trash it. This gross little treasure was way ahead of its time LOL!! It came as a free insert inside a MAD Magazine. It was a vinyl bright red 45 RPM record. Oh so many hours of rolling on the floor laughter did we have with one. At the age of 60, I am still laughing ....hahahahahahaha *GAS RULES*
@LynneGo - No, this record was in a MAD magazine annual that came out in about 1964. I know because I had a subscription to the magazine all through the 1960's. As a matter of fact I still have all of them today and they are still in their original brown mailing sleeves.
Can't believe I found this on You Tube! How many of you remember when Mad Magazine had inserts in their magazine of records.....that's right....records...the ones you play on phonographs?
One of the funniest...and grossest...was THIS one from the 60's!
It came out in 1964? I had the mag with the record inside. Never took it out. My old buddy Gary had one, so we listened to that one. In 1981, it was lost in a fire. Wish I still had it.
I remember this record when I bought one of the super specials. I think it is the same one that also had the track "barely alive" on it. Sure brings back memories...
Thanks so much for sharing this long lost gem from my childhood. When my mom would be on the phone talking to one of her socialite girlfriends, my brother and I would go into my bedroom, cue up a juicy belch from the record, then pick up the extension and let it rip. Needless to say, the record mysteriously disappeared one day while we were at school.
So indicative of the refined taste typically displayed by the morons and cretins who worked over at that disreputable publication. A publication I read religiously for years, starting in 1961. I must say however, that the vocal stylings of Mr. Neuman are quite distinctive...
We used to play this on CB radio in about 1967 on a regular basis - a relic of my mis-spent youth. We prided ourselves on being able to accurately slip-start/cue the disc on the belches for transmission on 27 MHz - achieved this by sticking some greaseproof paper under the cardboard disc on the turntable. Note: this version is significantly shorter (and a better, punchier mix, I think) than the l.p. or the CD issue of the same item. It's a case of "less is more" !!!
@chromeforme My cousins had this record a long time ago when they lived with our Grandma and their Mom. I have a feeling that one of their older brothers/sister had "Mad Magazine", and they got a hold of it! Well when I and my sister and brother were over there, they played it-over and over again! All of us kids would dance around to it, and one of my cousins would do the 'burp' part..(lol, that boy was a 'gas' himself, very funny kid) My Aunt would try to hide it, but we always found it!
I do! I never throw anything away. :D I have a box full of old MAD magazines from the early 1960's when I had a subscription for several years. They are still in their brown paper mailing sleeves.
@VinylNostalgia ...excellent...Spy Vs. Spy was one of my favorite things to "read" (view..?)...i remember getting a pocketbook edition of Spy Vs. Spy and i was in simplistic juvenile heaven...i still love Mad's zany perspective on things... :-)
Oh dear... LOL!
neffada53 1 week ago
Me and a friend went to New York around 1968 and went to MADison ave. Went to the mad office and in the lobby was a statue off Alfred . The clock was going backwards . Out the window was a giant face of king Kong. We were laughing and the Secretary said " are you mad! They gave us a tour. Were are the writers? They send it in from Florida. We see this old guy wandering around. Long hair, beard. "That's bill Gaines the publisher "we are not worthy! We are not worthy! Vertucci15 on u
vertucci15 2 weeks ago
when me and my brother put this record on we were so laughing on the floor.
Lustrum0005 3 weeks ago
Where is Dr. Demento when you need him? I remember the good Dr. playing this tune on his famous radio show back in the early 70's...got a tape of this from his show somewhere around here.
JRNipper 1 month ago
Doesn't hold up to "Nose Job", but it'll do for now.
judsons 1 month ago
@SoftballRulz7 Google for "what me worry?" which was the tag line.
When I was 12, I thought the magazine was so good with all its offbeat humor, hillarious parodies and caricatures. Haven't bought it in years but now at the age of 60, have a MAD Magazine cover on the wall over my desk. On the office Avacado tree, I put a nameplate "Arthur"... it's an in-joke.
Oppie10605 2 months ago
Pepto-Bismal?
duqmiguel 3 months ago in playlist Liked videos
I can verify this came back on CD. Would anyone happen to know the artist for this? I'd love to tag the MP3.
TiberiousNeruda 3 months ago
i LOVE IT
thedavetichy 3 months ago
WOW SO STUPID
thedavetichy 3 months ago
I had this! (And think I still do, tucked away in an old LP cover somewhere...)
garyokee 3 months ago
I'm a film nut who learned movie critique from Mad Magazine spoofs by Mort Drucker.
StukInTexAss 3 months ago
@SoftballRulz7 he made a magizine called "MAD" and he has broad games! hes pree deck!
DexNChex 4 months ago
Totally takes me back to the 7th grade, circa 1977! One of my favorite songs from Dr. Demento! Along with "Titties and Beer", "The Smoke-Off" & "Moose Turd Pie"! I could go on and on, LOL! Thanks for posting this!
screwyootube1 4 months ago in playlist Greatest Parodies & other Funny Stuff!
I remember these records. Yes, great sax / King Curtis solo! Wonder who did the guitar work? For the question: Who is Alfred E. Neuman? He is George Duhbya Bush's birth father. Coined the phrase, "What me worry?" that was Duhbya's mantra after that.
rockyjoedog 4 months ago
Can it be verified that King Curtis really played the sax solo, beyond the fact that Wikipedia says it's so? I kinda find it hard to believe that Mad, in making a cheap and cheesy rock record, would hire a guy who was at that time the hottest sax session player in New York.
Grvthang 4 months ago
This is was when Mad magazine was in its prime! Thanks for the great memories. I played this song until I wore it out when I got the edition.
MrSteelerfan58 4 months ago
The only time I ever heard this until now was WAY back in the '70's IIRC on "Dr. Demento." What a find!
Mosux2007 5 months ago
This is STILL funny to me after all these years..I think I got my first mad when I was about 12 or so..I'm 58 now! Dont read the current mads anymore..but still have the memories!
franciesfinds041 5 months ago
Rock on, Alfie!
kirinseti 5 months ago
My brother had this when I was a kid. I haven't thought of it in ages. Something made me think of it about five minutes ago and here it is! HaHaHa Thanks for putting it on here!
Ididnotwanttojoin 6 months ago
LOL - I always thought the burp @ 0:52 sounded like, "Harold!"
screwyootube1 6 months ago
@hypnosdude1 big burping lol
tonijn1969 6 months ago
@SoftballRulz7 that was the mad time
tonijn1969 6 months ago
I need to hear Super Spectacular Day again. Anyone have this?
It was a flexi-disc from the 70's I believe.
It had multiple grooves in it so there were "7" different versions of the song I think. And it depended which groove it started in to which version you heard.
It had instruction say not to stop listening until you heard all "7". Being MAD I thought for sure there would be less then they stated thus leaving you playing it over and over looking for a version that did not exist. But they w
CrackedChalice 6 months ago
omg i used to own this record tfs
puffyjo 7 months ago
@SoftballRulz7 - You might call him MAD magazines mascot. And don't tell me you've never seen a MAD magazine!!!!!
VinylNostalgia 7 months ago 5
@VinylNostalgia What kind of freshlugger magazine is Mad anyways? I bet it's run by a buncha idiots and schmucks...
POTZERBIE!
MiniKirk 3 months ago
How about some more beans Mr. Taggart?
glimmer2158 7 months ago
they played this in the disco when I was 13; now I am 52 and I still see myself in that disco.................
catharinaM51 8 months ago
this is cool
tonijn1969 8 months ago
Wish they would sell it on ITunes
Jkrofl131 8 months ago
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smcclung3 8 months ago
Thanks for the memories!!!!!!!!!!!
distimes 9 months ago
The belch at 00:52 sounded serious.
oakroyal 9 months ago 2
@oakroyal that was a hot one wasn't it???
PeterMayer 5 months ago
King Curtis' Saxophone's the Greatest.
Pity he had to argue with the robber, else he would still be around today.
Mad is still the magazine!
Acuity2 9 months ago
We had a record player that had a 16-2/3rpm speed as well as the faster stuff. This was a truly obnoxious sounding thing played at that slower speed. Sounded like my dad in the bathroom. My brother and I used to crack up like liitle idiots every time we played it. One day Mom took the record and cut it into pieces with a pair of scissors and tossed it in the trash. Ah, the memories...
chuckkrew 9 months ago
I always loved the records and bumper stickers that came with the old Mad.
Mad magazine was warped, but in a kinder, gentler way than crap today. Mad has wound down from their heyday because, as their publisher said years ago, "the whole world has gone mad!" How true
Sutterjack 10 months ago
I just love this, and it always makes me laugh!!!!
mickeycat1983 11 months ago
This song always cracks me up!! Thanks for posting!
mickeycat1983 11 months ago
Apparently the b side to the Bumble Bee '65, right?
bloozmonkey111 11 months ago
An afternoon DJ on WKLH in Milwaukee sometimes uses this as his bumper music. Always wondered where it came from.
336kgf 11 months ago
I'm in tears laughing at this!! My brothers got this in Mad Magazine first run, then I inherited the record from them, eventually proud to be able to play that great guitar solo toward the end on my guitar.. now, so many years later, I'm cracking up like a little kid! Thanks for the fond memories!!! (bwwaaaaaarrrrppp)
CAC62 1 year ago
I wish that MAD would have added a few farts!
per819 1 year ago
they also had one that after it played for a few seconds. would eject the needle.
jrwel14 1 year ago
Had this when it came out. Wish I still had it. Thanks!
jrwel14 1 year ago
My mom through all my mad mags out when I was in the navy, I had a bunch of em. I even had the record about gall in the family affair, funny spoof.
MikeMiller48 1 year ago
I first heard this record on Doctor Demento back in the fall of 1975. Later, "MAD Bytes It" came out with a disc. It is the fourth track, after "Barely Alive" and "Blind Date". The first track is only available on computer.
BuddyNovinski 1 year ago
Glad to finally hear this! Many years ago my mom and dad wouldn't buy me this issue on the news stand and none of my friends had it either!
40+ years later, voila!!!
Thanks for the posting!
See ya'
gguitarlizard 1 year ago
Thank God for Alfred E Nueman. What Me Worry?
moose3400 1 year ago
if somebody farted instead it would be the first record with a fart in it not unless somebody farted in those oldies and I didn't hear it
nc17atnce102 1 year ago
So, THAT'S what he sounds like!
NinjaGhostScorpion 1 year ago
I sooo want the old mad magazines dating from 30 years back, they are better then the new ones in my opinion
andreypondrey10 1 year ago 7
@andreypondrey10 You can find a collection on a DVD-ROM that you download to your computer.
Good luck.
Juliaflo 9 months ago
@andreypondrey10 Mad has become such trash in recent years. There's nothing funny about it anymore.
MrRETEROROB 2 days ago
@MrRETEROROB
Amen.
andreypondrey10 2 days ago
Yep, I remember getting this in the magazine way back then!!!!!!
Unfortunately, all my mad mags are long gone......
eoj2495 1 year ago 5
@eoj2495 - I still have all of mine but unfortunately they don't sell for very much on ebay so I'll just hang on to them.
VinylNostalgia 1 year ago 2
@VinylNostalgia Really? I need to get on eBay and start spending money I don't have on this stuff then =P
MiniKirk 3 months ago
@eoj2495 Havent you seen a MAD magazine in the comic section of a book store?!
puppetsosocks 6 months ago
burp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
franciesfinds041 1 year ago
WIKI: In 1959, "The Worst from Mad #2" included an original recording, "Meet the Staff of Mad," on a cardboard 33 rpm record. Two additional albums of novelty songs were released in 1962–63: "Mad 'Twists' Rock 'N' Roll" and "Fink Along with Mad." The latter album featured a song titled "It's a Gas," which punctuated an instrumental track with belches (along with a saxophone break by an uncredited King Curtis).
jedgould 1 year ago 2
@jedgould - That is great info, Thanks! And WOW...that's King Curtis on the sax...far-out!
VinylNostalgia 1 year ago
It's a GAS!!
5inthehole 1 year ago
@TheZelda1979 - Excuse you.
VinylNostalgia 1 year ago 4
If I'm not mistaken, a bunch of these singles were released on an LP around 1962... and I hope someone, someday, will upload, "I Won't Make Fun of Her Moustache Anymore..."
tuxguys 1 year ago
I bet this record is worth some serious bucks, now.
NinjaGhostScorpion 1 year ago
performed by Fredale Mannew in the 50´s!
eddieburns74 1 year ago
Howard Stern used this song for his Vart Contest lol
kurtespo 1 year ago
Yes it came out about 1964. I know a record guy who says it did, and besides, I don't think they used organs that sounded like that in the 1950s! I also have a MAD magazine CD Rom for Windows that has every issue from 1969 -1974, but it has the covers to every single Mad Magazine from 1952 up until 1998.
monkeeman1966 1 year ago
God bless you for putting this on YouTube---A priceless gem of Americana!
Sutterjack 1 year ago
:-) !YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! (-:
k66omega 1 year ago
Sorry guys but this came out in the 50's!!! Me and my little brother used to listen to it until it got so warped and scratched that we had to trash it. This gross little treasure was way ahead of its time LOL!! It came as a free insert inside a MAD Magazine. It was a vinyl bright red 45 RPM record. Oh so many hours of rolling on the floor laughter did we have with one. At the age of 60, I am still laughing ....hahahahahahaha *GAS RULES*
LynneGo 1 year ago
@LynneGo - No, this record was in a MAD magazine annual that came out in about 1964. I know because I had a subscription to the magazine all through the 1960's. As a matter of fact I still have all of them today and they are still in their original brown mailing sleeves.
VinylNostalgia 1 year ago
Can't believe I found this on You Tube! How many of you remember when Mad Magazine had inserts in their magazine of records.....that's right....records...the ones you play on phonographs?
One of the funniest...and grossest...was THIS one from the 60's!
Mudman1947 1 year ago
It came out in 1964? I had the mag with the record inside. Never took it out. My old buddy Gary had one, so we listened to that one. In 1981, it was lost in a fire. Wish I still had it.
faronthefiddler 1 year ago
King Curtis might play the sax solo on this,but the burps??Are you sure,or are you just fulla gas?
postatility 1 year ago
I remember this record when I bought one of the super specials. I think it is the same one that also had the track "barely alive" on it. Sure brings back memories...
forrestgumby 1 year ago
Hell yeah, son. I've got this on CD along with "Barely Alive" and Green Jello's "Blind Date".
MyNameIsBucket 1 year ago
I first heard this one on Doctor Demento in fall of 1975.
BuddyNovinski 1 year ago
This was a popular request at the roller skating rink we went to when we were kids. (This was before roller skating was gay.) :P
TheoIsTheGreatest 1 year ago
Wonderful! Tnx for posting this one ;))
bloozmonkey111 1 year ago
I got this on a 3 track CD from the 90's. I don't know what made me type it into youtube search just now
Higgins2001 1 year ago
We had this record, also in Royal Oak, MI. It was considered a new low in vulgarity then! Pretty tame (and lame) now.
tolmansmovies1 1 year ago
If you are wondering who does the burps on this record, it is King Curtis.
rocknrollroy2007 1 year ago
Thanks so much for sharing this long lost gem from my childhood. When my mom would be on the phone talking to one of her socialite girlfriends, my brother and I would go into my bedroom, cue up a juicy belch from the record, then pick up the extension and let it rip. Needless to say, the record mysteriously disappeared one day while we were at school.
10TVMan 1 year ago
next american idol
JRAires66 1 year ago
yeahhhh¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
1990Apolo 2 years ago
The type of music that made America great!
jmen4ever 2 years ago
So indicative of the refined taste typically displayed by the morons and cretins who worked over at that disreputable publication. A publication I read religiously for years, starting in 1961. I must say however, that the vocal stylings of Mr. Neuman are quite distinctive...
moosekarloff 2 years ago
Urrrrrrrrrp! 'scuse me!
VinylNostalgia1 2 years ago
We used to play this on CB radio in about 1967 on a regular basis - a relic of my mis-spent youth. We prided ourselves on being able to accurately slip-start/cue the disc on the belches for transmission on 27 MHz - achieved this by sticking some greaseproof paper under the cardboard disc on the turntable. Note: this version is significantly shorter (and a better, punchier mix, I think) than the l.p. or the CD issue of the same item. It's a case of "less is more" !!!
AusRadioHistorian 2 years ago
AHAHJHAHA
judopathoftruth 2 years ago
OPfer mukke hahaha
Keipzon 2 years ago
I can remember playing this record at an eighth grade graduation party in 1966. the look on the nun's face was worth it all. Mad on, folks!
olddude521 2 years ago
yaaaa!
judopathoftruth 2 years ago
You've got to admit one thing. The lyrics are very original. There's no song quite like it in the history of music - thank God!
Gazzara5 2 years ago
I worshiped this flexi-disc (and Mad in general) as a kid. And people wonder why I'm the way I am today!
potaluca 2 years ago 2
I knew I was gonna find this here!
Thank you buddy, my bro's gotta hear this! XD
CreepyBastard55 2 years ago
so did i man.
the most terryfiying thing i think is dieng and goign to heaven only to find fuckin Alfred. E Neuman sitting there as God
judopathoftruth 2 years ago
Or even worse... William M Gaines!
toxie95 2 years ago
I need this on a CD,.,. so I can play this and cruise around,in my boss car,.. as I did years ago,.how can I burn this to CD?
snoorton 3 years ago
i remember buying this.
jimmyjoemusic 3 years ago
I have this as well. I got in big trouble in 6th grade in Royal Oak, MI for bringing this into school and playing it over and over.
PeterMayer 3 years ago
You can find anything on Youtube!
mrob611 3 years ago 2
Just about!
VinylNostalgia 3 years ago
@mrob611
I used to have this....my mom hated it.....I loved it!!!
chromeforme 1 year ago
@chromeforme My cousins had this record a long time ago when they lived with our Grandma and their Mom. I have a feeling that one of their older brothers/sister had "Mad Magazine", and they got a hold of it! Well when I and my sister and brother were over there, they played it-over and over again! All of us kids would dance around to it, and one of my cousins would do the 'burp' part..(lol, that boy was a 'gas' himself, very funny kid) My Aunt would try to hide it, but we always found it!
loveoldsongs 1 year ago
no, unfortunely
Claytyson01 3 years ago
I do! I never throw anything away. :D I have a box full of old MAD magazines from the early 1960's when I had a subscription for several years. They are still in their brown paper mailing sleeves.
VinylNostalgia 3 years ago
@VinylNostalgia ...excellent...Spy Vs. Spy was one of my favorite things to "read" (view..?)...i remember getting a pocketbook edition of Spy Vs. Spy and i was in simplistic juvenile heaven...i still love Mad's zany perspective on things... :-)
k66omega 1 year ago
i have this one too
Claytyson01 3 years ago
Yes, but do you still have the magazine it came in?
VinylNostalgia 3 years ago