Music for Children's Disco, ca. 1978-9, Hoctor Products for Children (click for bigger!)
Niche markets abound in the music industry, and all of them are liable to succumb to the big cash-in when some popular trend gets too big, too ubiquitious to ignore. Records for children seem particularly vulnerable to trendiness, and that's why you'll find, from the 70s, CB radio-themed records for children, Star Wars exploitation titles for kids, and this week's selection, a disco dance routine album for the toddler set.
It's hard to know where to start commenting on this record. First, there's obviously an unsavory, inappropriate sexuality draped over the whole thing, epitomised by the Farrahed-up cover model. Second, the music... well, sucks. Finally, though, the whole mess is mitigated by generous dollops of naivité:
Random capitalization aside, in the end, some of the contents of this record are just so deliriously stupid ("R2D2/Robot from the futurrrre..."), that it's impossible to take any of it, even the unclean feelings, too seriously:
R2D2 C3PO Disco (2:34, 3.01mb mp3)
I'm a Guitar Girl (2:01, 2.38mb mp3)
Foxy Disco Girl (2:04, 2.44mb mp3)
Hoctor Dance Company is still around, and still pushing their weird stuff for dance classes. CDs are available, but it looks like their brief, disturbing disco experiment has been wisely relegated to the scrap heap.
Enjoy the tunes and please read the audioblog disclaimer!
10 comments:
"Joan Yell, and myself have" Good thing she isn't teaching proper punctuation or grammar.
The "I'm a foxy little disco girl" probably was nominated for pedophilia song of the year in 1978. "With my fringe and furs, I twist and twirl"?!?! Tragic.
I consider myself a liberal minded person, but excuse me this is frigging unbelievable. Amazing this passed muster as appropriate.
Can you imagine someone actually sitting down and writing lyrics to the "foxy little disco girl". AGGGG!
jesus christ in a thong wtf were they thinking?
The music is bad enough..but the lyrics? I heard dogs howling from here to Hell-A when I played it a few minutes ago.
The dirty Feelings still Aren't going Away. Make Them stop, Princess, make them Stop!
"Joan Yell?" "Donna Dial?" Why do I think they're actually 53 year old men who probably need to be investigated by the government.
I'm guessing the germanic sounding last name of Ratzin would explain the capitlization.
All I can say is "wow"
All I can say is "bow-wow."
I love how all the songs sound like the same song with different words!
Just found your blog.
You, Sparkle Pony, are a god.
Just for you, here's a quote for the day...
"So how come when I eat Peeps, my poop isn't pink and sparkly?"
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Oh, I Love the Capitalization. It just makes my Day. Really, what is going on in the mind of someone who writes "put their Heads together"?!
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