The T-Bones - No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach is In) - 45 RPM

[capitolemiproducer]

The Wrecking Crew in disguise

[kidtronic]

This was my very first 45, still have it. I got to pick one free 45 when I joined the 45 club at our local mall record shop, which got you discounts on the top 40 every Saturday. Most of teh choices looked lame but I found this one,

[ndhudecz]

great,long time no hear

[TimelordR]

Didn't realize this came from a Alka-Seltzer commercial until i found out about it 10 years after i first heard this tune on the radio on an Oldies station in Chicago a couple of decades ago. Thanks for the memories!

[pbatommy]

Spencer, have you seen whopfrog2's video of the same song. The label in his video is quite different from this one (which is the one I remembered and owned).  Do you have any information on the differences?

[msirull]

One thing's for sure... modern music will NEVER have cool, catchy tunes like this any more. ESPECIALLY since cRAP has poisoned everything.

[barrybob32]

@msirull real rap stopped existing in the 90s. i think the main problem is that people use computers too damn much in music produciton. theres not as much human talent in music today as ever before.

[stangcolbra]

What ever happened to instrumentals???

[TheMustangsally75]

I can remember thsse commercials from back in the60's. I was in elemenary school. Couldn't tell what it was sdvertising.

[rockerforlife2001]

And to think a decade later the key members of this band would record "Falling In Love". By the way, I think this is a great song.

[jstraw623]

@rockerforlife2001 Except that not one member of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds plays on this record. The T-Bones were L.A. studio musicians and members of the loosely knit "Wrecking Crew." When a band had to be formed to create a touring unit under the name T-Bones, the basis for H,JF&R came together.

[bigalturk1]

Ahhh...The good ole' days!

[guitarlvr54]

This song is great on 45 rpm !! It hits close to home for me,because Alka-Seltzer was made in my home town in Indiana and my mother worked at the plant ! -G.L.

[wmbrown6]

Sascha Burland, who wrote this piece, was also responsible for the 1957-67 theme for the long-running CBS panel show "What's My Line?"

[HarvestmanMan]

Funny, I just got this record the other day!

[jasonlava]

Had the 45rpm as well. Taken by Katrina

[pbatommy]

This must be the first song inspired by a TV commercial--and the commercial came out FIRST!

[steveinbelgium]

@pbatommy I think "percolator" came before this one. It came from the coffee commercial. And "The disadvantages of You" by the Brass Ring came from the Benson & Hedges commercial about the same time as this song.

[reggie44]

Don't forget The Bob Crewe Generation "Music To Watch Girls By", that was the theme for a soda ad (Diet Rite? Diet Pepsi?). There's also the Teaberry Shuffle, which was from a Clark gum commercial. Both these songs were obviously inspired by the Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass trumpet sound.

[sexymama1966]

Diet Pepsi