Custom THREE STOOGES 7" Birthday Record ORIGINAL VOICES

$ 42

$ 42 Sold For

Oct 21, 2009 Sold Date

Oct 16, 2009 Start Date

$ 10 Start price

6 Number Of Bids

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This Auction is For Your Choice of ONE

THREE STOOGES' HAPPY BIRTHDAY RECORD
Original Voices (1961)

In what has been touted as a unique marketing adventure, the Three Stooges recorded this birthday record in 238 different versions—one for each unique named child—so you could purchase a 45-sized, 33 1/3-play record of the Three Stooges singing "Happy Birthday to You" .. personalized with your name!

This is a seven-inch vinyl disc record originally recorded in November 1961 by the Three Stooges. It contains twelve minutes of non-stop song and jokes and originally sold for $1 in department stores (the ones with the generic paper sleeve) and $1.25 through a special mail order firm named Hargo Company (the ones with the personalized yellow cardboard record jacket). Record sales were reported to be very slow, and with so many versions produced, stocking all of them was problematic. Production stopped soon thereafter, currently making these records a RARE find!

THE THREE STOOGES' HAPPY BIRTHDAY RECORD features a red label with illustrations of Larry, Moe and Curly Joe.

Record Credits: A Harry Harris Production — Written by Elwood Ullman — Pressed for Ardee Records By The RCA Victor Custom Record Division.

THE ABOVE AUCTION PHOTOS SHOW MANY RECORDS TOGETHER but please keep in mind this auction is for your choice of one record.

These are "NEW OLD STOCK" and were shrink-wrapped when I found them. I carefully slit the shrink wrap to make a recording of each of the names (audio excerpts playing). Some of the cardboard record jackets have minor dings; the paper sleeves are very nice with only the slightest wear. "Danny" and "Karen" records have some minor surface noise—the others are like new and were UNUSED when I found them and then played ONLY ONCE to extract the audio clips.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS AUCTION IS FOR (1) RECORD FROM THE LIST OF NAMES BELOW. Please contact me when the auction ends and tell me which record/name you want so I can reserve it.

Current List of Available Choices:

"Danny" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Dean" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Donna" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Gary" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Gene" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Greg" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Howard" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Jane" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Karen" (generic paper sleeve as seen in photos 1 & 5)
"Lou" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Rusty" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Sally" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Sammy" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Scott" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Sonny" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Stan" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"Tony" (personalized yellow cardboard record jacket as seen in photos 2 & 6)
"From the Stooges" sung by Curly Joe (generic paper sleeve as seen in photos 1 & 5)

Bid Now and Reserve your choice because when they're gone they're gone—there isn't any more!
Original 1962 Advertising Art (for illustration purposes only - not included)

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