CEREAL BOX RECORDS!

[@MetalJesusRocks]

I NEED that KISS Krunch LOL -- *runs off to ebay*

[@shrek3714]

Says fictional bands, AFTER THE MONKEES

[@untitledcentral7727]

MetalJesusRocks So do I, man!

[@m.illli.e]

Lmao

[@mel1nda12ax7]

Me too!

[@mel1nda12ax7]

Did they HAVE KISS Krunch cereal?

[@gunnarbenjamin6348]

The sound quality was better than I thought though

[@everydaygoodies6280]

TheOGLittleT ya

[@nathanielscreativecollecti6392]

If you keep your expectations low enough, then you will often be pleasantly surprised! I know I was.

[@timmy41]

Seriously...I've heard much worse 45s on vinyl

[@vinylcity1599]

@@timmy41 yeah, I have a few of those! Haha

[@vibe_check_gaming9341]

Same

[@l.j.b.9338]

Honestly sounded A LOT better than I expected. It’s pretty amazing that they pulled this off and that it still works!

[@danny1959]

Most pop singles back when these records were pressed were between 2 and 3 minutes long, so these aren't particularly short.

[@dave225]

and we listened on a transistor AM radio, so the lousy sound quality seemed normal. :)

[@1959blantz]

As a child of the 60s I defiantly remember these. I only wish I still had mine. I remember owning "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies, and "Easy Come, Easy Go" by Bobby Sherman.The hard part was having to wait to finish the cereal before being able to play the record. I remember a childhood friend was allowed to cut the record out before the cereal was finished, and covering the place on the box where the record was with masking tape. I tried that trick and got yelled at. The 60s was the best time to be a kid.

[@theforgottenone687]

Yelled at for what being a kid sounds kinda harsh if you ask me .

[@Newtined]

@@theforgottenone687it builds character...

[@mysteryc07]

I had a ton of these as a kid! Drove my Mom crazy because I'd dump the cereal into a big bowl and take the box to my room for precise cutting!!! They got left behind in a move :( I purchased a few back in the early 90's, but my entire record collection was stolen :( (1400 lps, 3,000 45s) I am going to start collecting them again and play them on a secondary turntable in my bedroom. Back in the day, the maroon Archies one that you have was the rarest and hardest to find. Thanks for this, man!

[@vinyleyezz]

Oh no Sorry your collection got stolen! I hope you rebuild your new collection with a ton of great records including many of the cereal box records! Best of luck to you, thanks for watching!

[@kevinr.3542]

How did someone steal all your records? Sounds like the had a lot of time to remove that many. Old roommate?

[@mrexcellent1]

I had a Jackson Five cutout record which had the song "Who's Loving You" from Alpha Bits. I also had Franken Berry, Count Chocula and Boo Berry Goes to Hollywood. Those were my favorites. You are right. The audio quality was not the greatest, but the were clever marketing tools and they make great collector items.

[@CassidyElizabeth09]

I wish they would do it again lol.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

I do too!!

[@obduliocarrera4076]

Love the profile pic (because of the new twenty one pilots logo)

[@nikiyerbamate]

Cassie̶ ||-//

[@kingwithacapitalk614]

Eminem, Tupac, Ice Cube, etc would be dope

[@DiannamayLadyDi]

@@kingwithacapitalk614 Emi-puffs

[@thepiperchile]

WOW! Never thought they actually had music recorded in them!

[@wade2922]

Cereal records should only be played on Crosley record players

[@vinyleyezz]

😂😂😂

[@amso7169]

They give the best sound!

[@bjthedjdutchdude1992]

Play it on 78

[@CPorter]

That would ruin it's needle

[@tacobor]

A practical use for a Crosley.

[@dandi9588]

Omg,you learn something new every day. I didn't know these existed,they're very interesting. :>

[@frankatchison1617]

Name brand Cereal ,was Expensive as heck then, they we're selling a box for the same price as a 3# bag of better than average granola today! Only the rich kid's ever got those( record boxe's) but for $1 you could get a real vinyl 45 rpm!!!

[@TheArabchaser]

I had "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies, "Easy Come, Easy Go" by Bobby Sherman, and "You Are The One" by The Sugarbears.

[@doloresdemar2347]

When you're my age,, lol 😆 you know about them!! I had 1 in 1969 and I was 10 years old!

[@doloresdemar2347]

@@TheArabchaser I had Sugar Sugar too 💕💕💕💕 good ole days, they were ❤

[@gianlusc]

Freaking cool that literally a piece of a cardboard box could be played! How would they do that today? A code for a digital download? So much less sexy! 😀

[@vinyleyezz]

Haha I know right? Digital downloads just aren’t the same!

[@gianlusc]

Exactly 😄

[@johnoofsatchurch]

Digital quality is Awful

[@leewilson2010]

@@vinyleyezz Do it the exact same way duh!!

[@evanraw3450]

In My Life - The Beatles

[@shrek3714]

That is one of my favorite Beatles songs

[@matthewrose7964]

Have to admit they sound better than I expected! :)

[@doloresdemar2347]

Yes, I had one in 1969 and I picked the cereal bc it had the record on it!! My favorite cereals back then were Quisp and Quake!! We always got a prize toy in the cereals, in all of the cereals, mostly all!! My record sounded great 😄❤

[@apollozero]

The Kiss Krunch cereal is fan produced fiction and boxes designed by a fan. He sells the boxes with no cereal. So there is no way to remember these existing, because they didn't.

[@hootenhtn]

I had the original TV version of Valleri by The Monkees (with electric guitar instead of brass, and more Peter Tork in the backing vocals) which was the only way it was ever issued until the late 80's.

[@747derrickme]

Yes i have about 20 of those cardboard records...i like them...when i was a kid i used to cut them out all the time and they still play great...but do you notice kelloggs never had them...they were usually on the back of post cereals and honeycomb is my favorite cereal...im now 57 years old and i still eat honeycomb

[@thefabulousthomasj]

Yes, I am still an Archies freek, and not only do I own the regular Archies LPs and singles I have several of the Archies cereal box records in my vinyl collection today.

[@d.a.elliottjr.367]

I still have a cardboard record from when I was 9 years old in 1972 of Who's Loving You by Jackson 5. I think these records were not only to promote cereal but to promote the real vinyl records which might be why they didn't always have the full song on them.

[@Corner-for-Assorted-Oats]

The sound quality isn’t even that bad considering it’s cardboard, I’d love for these to make a comeback

[@l.salisbury1253]

1:49 - FunFact: the female vocalist for the Sugar Bears was a pre-'Bettie Davis eyes" Kim Carnes! (Their cardboard single song "feather balloon" from 1971 is on KZbin.)

[@DaveTexas]

I had several of those from the early ‘70s. Mine weren’t music, though. I had scary stories. No idea what cereal they came from; maybe Honeycomb or Alpha-Bits, as those were cereals my mother would get. The records were probably Halloween promotions. The main thing I remember was that I had trouble with them slipping, as I had a record-changer turntable with a center spindle that didn’t rotate with the platter, so the records would tend to get stuck. It seems like the instructions with them told you to put coins near the center of the records to weigh them down, which would help them spin better, but I would just tape them onto the platter to keep them firmly in place. (It helped if you cut them out as squares instead of circles, since you could tape down the corners.

[@miasamess68]

Probably the Franken Berry ones, I had those as well.

[@AnthonyLemma24]

I love how you included MetalJesusRocks name in the video. haha

[@vinyleyezz]

For sure! He blessed my channel with his nice comment so I had to give him a shoutout! Lol 😎👍

[@OractheIII]

Love his channel! He is a big vintage PC gaming nerd - Love that

[@mwhich50]

We used to play our cereal box singles on our plastic, children's record players. We also watched Jackson Five cartoons, Archie's cartoons, and the Monkey's show every Saturday morning while we were eating the cereal that we cut the 45s from. I had to laugh when I heard you criticizing these 50 year old cardboard records. They were made for 1970s children, not modern, adult memorabilia collectors:)

[@notthatyouasked6656]

I understand there were several cases where the cardboard record came out months or even years before the actual vinyl release of the same song.

[@krich451]

"the sound quality isn't the greatest" That sounds INFINITELY better than I would ever expect a cardboard record to sound.

[@cassandralyris4918]

My sister and I had the Count Chocula and Froot Loops ones when we were little. We played them on our Fisher Price turntable. SO many memories.

[@bomar8627]

The beatles-Day Tripper

[@Rebel9668]

When we had these records as kids we weren't worried about the sound quality, LOL! Heck, we were playing them on kiddie record players that opened up like little suitcases. My favorite cereals were the monsters, count chocula, frankenberry, etc.

[@jennylobb7858]

I had a Jackson 5 one, a Monkees one, and an Archies one--all from 1969 to 1971 era. I remember you had to put a dime on the record near the spindle hole to kind of hold it down and get it to play better (better being a very relative term).

[@coolcrawford]

Honestly considering it's cardboard and from cereals from the short samples I have heard they sound pretty good for this stuff honestly

[@hotsauce1176]

This is wild. The fact that is audible its already awesome.

[@RaiderRican]

This takes me back to my childhood! It’s so awesome you made this video because I picked some up at a local garage sale in a box of 45’s I was sooo stoked because I totally forgot about these until I seen them again!!

[@odlewis]

I had the Archies cardboard box cereal records. Not sure what cereal they came off of but I loved the arches and this was back in the 1960s.

[@wildbilltexas]

The Archies made the songs short for their Saturday morning TV show. I ate a lot of Alpha Bits and Sugar Crisp cereal in the early 70's to get them. They sounded OK on my GE Wildcat phonograph, but when I played them on my parents big RCA Vista console stereo, the surface noise overwhelmed the music. I also tore a big hole in one by trying to stack it on the automatic turntable. Mine somehow got thrown away over the years, I wish I still had them!

[@kpopkollect6976]

These are amazing! Sounded way better than I was expecting haha.

[@ajperkins288]

I had the Archies records. Their song, "Sugar Sugar" was not a commercial jingle. It was a number one hit on Billboard's charts for four weeks. I remember digging through the shelves at the supermarket, looking at the back of cereal boxes, trying to find the songs I liked. Those simpler, yet fun days are long missed.

[@josifstalin7808]

Archies - Sugar Sugar

[@missk.1301]

Josif- I had that one, and played the %#&* outta it! LoLoLoL

[@jbratt]

Yep, my grandfather ate Super Sugar Crisps and gave me the records. I had Sugar Sugar 😀

[@TheArabchaser]

@@jbratt I had Bobby Sherman and The Sugarbears, too.

[@danielarick2105]

I remember that record The Archies and Sugar, Sugar,I had that record and it didn't play that well

[@slotslidershoslotcars]

I loved these things . Played them on my little Kenner close & play record player ...also junk but really cool when you 8 in 1974 !

[@whitelion7976]

I had from washing powder, cereal, comics, car dealers (with car sounds and ad) and other like an LP of Michael Cassidy inside a beer crate. Readers digest.. Loved them as a kid.

[@progressiveguy9959]

Thanks for doing this video.I had some of these records.Havent thought about them in probably 50 years.

[@TheAmericanDragn]

Sure, it's not the greatest, but I'm amazed they were able to pull this off at all. It sounds a lot better than I thought it would! Also, a lot of pop music was on the short side during that time because record producers didn't think anybody would want to listen to a song that lasted more than 3 minutes. "Like A Rolling Stone" sorta broke that stigma.

[@sleepy_boi3125]

I found the sugar bears cardboard record at an antique shop for 25 cents, what a deal

[@mrpoothtick]

Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles

[@sentino68]

Oh man! You just opened up a new memory file I had forgotten about! I totally loved these and remember my mom helping me cut them out. I could not understand how these could actually play music! But they did! Thanks for doing this video!

[@DIYTAYSEERworld]

Also if you record a full length song on this size record it will get hell lot of variations in sound once the need getting closer to the center. That's the reason for the song length reduction. And you can clearly see the empty space available in the middle.

[@gigan43]

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer - The Beatles

[@1mctous]

Most Abbey Road fans would use the silver hammer on this cut. Here Comes the Sun, the opening side 2 cut, gets my vote.

[@theechickengamerz]

Made sure that sHe WaS DEAd

[@perfectstack-music]

I do remember these and I used to play them on my mom's 1960ish all plastic Sears portable turntable ;)

[@callumrhodes1997]

I am SO glad to finally see a Smiths song make it to the cool segment at the beginning!

[@michaelmartin9022]

I never had Archie comics as a kid, but have been collecting digests recently... 200.00% comfy. Jughead is my spirit animal.

[@rich_edwards79]

In the UK they came on packets of Kellogg's Frosties. This would have been around 1990 / 91 so quite late in the day for vinyl as a format. I remember one being 'Tjunderbirds are Go' (there was a bit of a Thunderbirds revival around that time) and another was 'Happenin All Over Again' by the one hit wonder Lonnie Gordon.

[@lukegarcia2524]

Saint Pepsi - Private Caller

[@Streetw1s3r]

It was common for pop music of the 50s and bubblegum pop of the 60s to be only 2 minutes in length, this was so the radio stations can play adverts more often.

[@MusicBoxVinyl]

I have a Jackson 5 one

[@themichaeljacksonblogde2532]

I am a collector and i really Need one :)

[@codykamminga9667]

How does it sound?

[@MusicBoxVinyl]

cody kamminga they sound horrible, no bass.

[@SearsCool]

Nice

[@alansmith2426]

Whatever their shortcomings, they are kind of cool. I really enjoyed this...

[@darrenkrivit6854]

Wow, I had a bunch of these, along with those plastic 45s from kids magazines back in the 70s

[@ronguy4420]

I have two from my childhood. My bride has never heard to these. She thought I was clowning till I shown her and played it.

[@frschoonover1]

Actually, The Monkees were originally a fictional rock band that were loosely inspired by The Beatles. Although originally fictional, they later did become a real band. They also had a TV show that ran on NBC from 1966-1968 and later starred in their only feature film Head, which was released in 1968. Their last appearance as the original foursome was in their own TV special for NBC called 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, aired in 1969, which was a ratings disaster due to it being aired at the same time the Oscars aired, but the TV special actually received positive reviews, and in the ensuing years, Head received positive reappraisal when it was much maligned back in the day when it was first released. The main reason why Head bombed at the box office was because it was released at the same time that The Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine was released, where one critic chortled "Two Beatle movies premeired this week. One of them starred The Monkees." I actually remember cereal box records. I had me some as a kid, although my favorite cold cereal memories were when I used to eat a big bowl of cereal while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Those were the days. In a few rare cases, some of these cereal box records woyuld have ther A and B sides of a single separately, such as in Bobby Sherman's case when one record had "Easy Come, Easy Go" and another record had it's B-Side "July Seventeen", which was a Bobby Sherman original song. IMHO, the only sad thing was that they never had any "Partridge Family" cereal box records, which would have been cool as when I was a kid, that was, and still is, one of my all time favorite TV shows. THanks for the video. Looking forward to more.

[@TBD3.0]

This brings back old memories that I had no idea I had, the novelty is what matters 👍🏻

[@ricknelsonm]

What an awesome friend you would be, no dull moments there

[@jl721ATcairn]

Here's a bit of trivia: Ron Dante, lead singer of the Archies on records, went on to co-produce and sing on Barry Manilow's first 9 albums, and is still active in the music industry. Also, if you look at the run times of other songs in the '50s-early '70s, 2 to 2.5 minutes was pretty standard. There's a section in David Foster's book about trying to expand "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" into a 4 minute record for the Bodyguard soundtrack, and being relieved when 1)Whitney Houston hated it, and 2)Boy George's version came out and was enough of a hit to suggest changing the song (to "I Will Always Love You").

[@adamaj74]

Nice! I have a set of Gremlins' albums with storybooks that you could buy at Hardee's back when Gremlins first released in 1984.

[@rwsimmons8812]

That KISS Crunch is a fan made "fantasy" item...and theres no actual record on the box. Having said that, I was thinking of these cereal box records just the other day, and wondering if it could work today...with the vinyl "comeback" and everything. I think a Bruno Mars one could sell some Frosted Flakes!

[@JPWillson]

My Hero - Man With A Mission

[@Thomas_TVC15]

Amy Winehouse - back to black

[@TheUncannyvalleygirl77]

Fanatic Mijnheer I just got that

[@mgconlan]

Actually the bass on "Love Light" comes through quite well. I suspect the player was Carol Kaye of the Wrecking Crew. She worked out the famous bass "hook" on Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and the walking-bass line on Sonny and Cher's "I Got You, Babe."

[@danielthompson4463]

Carol Kaye is a bass legend

[@mads8004]

My mom went to Best Buy the other day to get a vinyl for my little sister for Christmas, and they literally were cleaned out. My mom even said that the store chain will be getting more vinyls than CD because of the “vinyl boom” in recent years.

[@marmalade6170]

China Grove - The Doobie Brothers

[@amayalevels]

The record Collector yuh that’s a bop

[@annemariesmith5459]

I remember the bubble gum records. I had Blondie, The Kinks, The Knack, KISS, Gary Numan, Michael Jackson etc etc. I wish I still had the sleeves!

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

1:31 *I SEE YOU ELTON.*

[@ThisGuyFrritz]

I have seen the ones with scary stories on Alpha Bits cereal. The first I've played a couple of times has a scary story, which I didn't know what it was about. Well, ya know, I was only a little kid at the time. About a year or 2 later, there was another one I played (more than the other) about a mysterious trailer from outer space. The alien inside that thing revealed itself and made a speech. Part of the speech was "This universe is only a bottle made out of space and time." I was able to know that one more than the previous one. Those were my fond memories.

[@iamsemjaza]

Ghostbusters had cereal box records in the 80s as well. A few others too.

[@RC-wm7cw]

Interesting..... Do u film videos with a camera or a phone? Also what editing software do you use?

[@vinyleyezz]

I do both! And I edit on FCPX 😄

[@RC-wm7cw]

Thanks. I've been wondering what is best to use for my channel. Is FCPX free?

[@TheBudgie29]

Those Records have the Great UK Session Singer Ron Dante on the Vocals.

[@Nexfero]

I love the Smith's nice pick for song of the day.

[@TKRVideoCentral]

I had a TON of these when I was a kid...and the 2 minute mark was actually average back then - most songs in the 1970s barely topped out at more than 3 minutes until later in the decade. Still, thanks for the blast from the past!

[@josifstalin7808]

You touched the grooves! :D

[@vinyleyezz]

Haha I know! Plz forgive me! 😂

[@josifstalin7808]

Never! I'm giving unsubscribe! XD No, just kidding. I forgive you XD Keep spinning that vynil! XD

[@TheArabchaser]

I had "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies, "Easy Come, Easy Go" by Bobby Sherman, and "You Are The One" by The Sugarbears (which featured a young Kim Carnes). These records usually didn't last too long due to bending and warping. As to the short length of the tracks, the average pop hit in the 1960s was about 2 1/2 minutes, but a bubblegum track could be much shorter.

[@campfortson4387]

I think my dad had Love grows where my rosemary goes

[@leewilson2010]

What were you doing that destroyed them? I got some from the 70s thats stil plays and in good condition..!!!

[@TheArabchaser]

I was 6 years old when these came out. How could anyone expect them to survive? Many Barbie dolls didn't survive the 60s, either.

[@leewilson2010]

@@TheArabchaser I do toy shows .. I barbie collectors .....I see people with countless of barbies from the 60's

[@leewilson2010]

Sorry to tell you..I do TOY shows and from what I see ... Barbies from the 60's lasted and many are still out there by the millions ... There are millions of Barbies being collected in excellent shape... And I mean millions...So You got this one WRONG

[@aydenjenkins8760]

I love The Smiths. I'm glad they got a shout-out on this channel. How Soon is Now is such a good song.

[@annland781]

I used to have Sugar Bear in the 70s! Aww.... and I forgot about Alpha Bits! ❤

[@jcstevegigs]

The Sugar Bears “You Are The One” is a great song. I remember having that one as a kid.

[@rEdf196]

At age 6 in 1970 I had a Bobby Sherman cereal box record, I played it only once. My sister did have a cool sounding cardboard doll box record of ,Swingy by Paul Revere & the Raiders which came with her Swingy dancing doll.

[@johndumars758]

Always enjoy your videos, always learn something new!!!

[@Meridian83West]

I had a couple of these: "Catching Up On Fun" by the Archies and "I'll Bet You" by the Jackson 5.

[@TRUCKERS7]

My local Walmart started selling records again

[@yuri0_187]

They wanna get in on the revived trend. Now that it's more accessible to more people who don't spend thousands on HiFi gear.

[@girlboss7208]

Lucky

[@ifilmalways7122]

Oh yeah, if the industry picks up, the record producers and the money grubbers in some of these companies won't let it pass by.

[@yeraschitt2642]

I buy my records off eBay.

[@rustykoehler2789]

Im buying them from Walmart currently.

[@chrispypelletier8026]

Count Chocula was my fave, till the changed the recipe. Still my fave for nostalgic reasons

[@DiamondHunterMc]

Oh! Darling - The Beatles

[@karlsson5722]

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

[@jellebaetsle9693]

Got into vinyl by watching your videos! Thanks to you I now have an obsession! :)

[@vinyleyezz]

Haha welcome to the club! We’re all addicted 😂✌️

[@edricwallace8625]

Twenty one pilots-guns for hand

[@nankypooh655]

I used to have one of the Archies records. I believe it was Nursery Rhymes. I also had one of the Sugar Bear records, but I can't remember what the name of the song was, or if there was more than one. I had a neighbor who had all the Bobby Sherman records. I remember when Alpha-Bits were endorsed by The jackson Five, and they had Jackson Five records on the cereal boxes, but I never had any of those. Did you know that the U.S. versions of The Beatles Fan Club Christmas Records were manufactured the same way? (The British ones were flexi-discs) Also, cereal boxes weren't the only place to find these records. A Chicago potato chip company called Kitty Clover had a record on their box by the local band The Shadows of Knight, who are most well known for their cleaned up, radio friendly cover version of Van Morrison & Them's big hit, Gloria. The record was a promotional gimmick for the company, and the song is called The Potato Chip Song. It also features a brief interview with the band before the song. This recording can be found on quite a few sixties "Garage Rock" compilations. The song itself is on the first Pebbles comp. Other compilations have the complete recording including the interview. (I can't remember which comps at the moment,though) I just thought you might be interested in this little bit of information, so I thought I'd share it.

[@russredfern167]

I have two of the Archies LP 1969 originals , those songs are short on the lp. Generally 1969 they kept songs under 3 minutes.

[@jeffro5683]

I know I'm old when I remember these

[@weirdproq]

I honestly like the look of these more than some picture discs.

[@lukashislop5890]

Dragon Attack - Queen

[@aidan9674]

Kukas Hislarp THAT SONG IS AMAZING

[@19seventy97]

Any early Queen song is amazing!

[@lehtiimuri7702]

The shoes - "Time to dance Sebastian" remix

[@escoddy8706]

Thriller on display? Awesome!

[@martinpitts3861]

Had one off the back of an AlphaBits box when I was about six in the mid-'70's. Don't remember who it was or the name of the song. Some obscure artist that never caught on.

[@PeBoVision]

Grew up in the 50's and 60's and had a few of these records. Sound did indeed suck (and my parents would not let them be played on the family hi-fi for fear of damaging the stylus, but we kids had our flip-top suitcase record players in our rooms, so no problem. I didn't like many of the sugary cereals - with the exception of Sugar Frosted Flakes (which were GRrrrreat!) so not sure what cereals we got records with) I don't do top 40 (couldn't even name half of today's 'artists'), but I do have a couple suggestions for Song of the day: 1. Amos Lee: "El Camino" 2. John Martyn: "May You Never" Two song I hope will find their way onto my funeral playlist as songs of my life.