american comedy jingles info

[tonyjames100]

hi does anyone know where the following american comedy parody jingles are from,
sids woodarama,bills hovercraft school,arnolds rubberama,
they sound like national lampoon or the like,hope someone can shed some light on them as would love to know
thanks

[CGreenland]

I'm not going to be any help, I'm afraid, tonyjames, but I remember them from an odd David Bowie bootleg LP I used to have. It had several oddities like that sprinkled among the songs.

Is it Bill's Hovercraft School that "gets you in the air/ With money to spare"? Also: "Let me be your mama/ at Arnold's Rubberama"? Something like that.

Could they be by the Firesign Theatre, I wonder?

[tonyjames100]

nice one thanks for the reply,can you remember what the lp was called

[CGreenland]

I can't, tony, and nor can I remember what was on it. It came in a plain white card sleeve with a photo of a topless woman stuck on the front. Don't know who she was, or whether she had anything to do with the record. The photo was a grainy photocopy on pink paper. I've had a look around on the web and can't find it, or any title that sounds familiar.

[Xian]

The Bowie bootleg is "Bump and Grind", also known as "Soft In the Middle". I'm also looking for info on these parodies!

[CGreenland]

Yes, Xian, "Bump and Grind" it was! I should never have remembered that.
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[sekundar]

I had them from a 1970s David Bowie bootleg album called Soft in the Middle.

'Folks from all over the San Gabriel Valley like to shop at Rubberama, and that's not stretching it.' 'We'll make you look like four tires...and a spare!'

There was also one from the New York Telephone company giving advice on
malicious and obscene phone calls. They were the best part of the album as I recall, along with a spirited live version of Waiting for the Man with Mick Ronson and others, and the 'I'm Against It' song from one of the Marx brothers's films. The overall effect was a zaniness which was common enough in those days (but sadly missing from modern life).