Elmo & Patsy-Grandma Got Run Over By...

As long as Richard C. doesn't get his hands on Gordon's
recording and remixes it, we're good. :)

EdisonLite wrote: <Just be thankful Elmo didn't team up with Richard Carpenter!> I wonder what some of their titles would be like .. Top Of the Reindeer Goodbye to Grandma (They Long To Be) Close to Elmo Please Mr. Reindeer We've Only Just Begun To Run Grandma Over Calling Grandmas of Interplanetary Craft I Won't Last a Day Without Patsy All You Get from Love is a Reindeer Touch Me When We're Running (Over Grandma) And excerpts of lyrics would include: *You can say there's no such thing as an unaltered, un-remixed Carpenters recording (but somewhere in the deep vaults, it exists) *Don't you remember I wanted private-press baby, you said you could only find an Epic disc baby, baby 'though I'd settle for Soundwaves baby, I love Oink, I really do!

LOL! Love it!

jimct wrote: My bad then, 80smusicfreak...sorry. The tenor of an e-mail is sometimes difficult to discern, as opposed to a conversation, where there's both voice inflection and facial expression to assist with "intent." I really thought I was sensing some "snarky" there - so glad I was mistaken. This board has always been, by far, the most civilized one I know. I appreciate that. All is well. Until next time, kind sir!    :)

For the record, as I often do w/ people I like - or at least feel I know fairly well - when speaking w/ them face-to-face, I admittedly like to use a lot of sarcasm. At times, that translates into my writing style as well, which I guess got lost in the interpretation of that post of mine, jimct. And as further proof that I wasn't "looking for another fight", since I just received it in the mail today (hence the wheels were already in motion prior to my misconstrued post), I'll now come forward and admit that I "secretly" made an Elmo & Patsy purchase of my own last weekend! :-) You see, while performing that same search on eBay back on Thursday the 12th - which netted the discovery of the original Oink pressing of the Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer LP that I posted the link to, and you ultimately bought (has it arrived yet???) - I spotted what I strongly suspected was another interesting E&P item, so I bought it for myself. It arrived earlier today, and I'm now happy to report that my suspicions were confirmed. It turns out the original 1982 pressing on Oink 8223 exists on cassette as well. :-) Over the years, I've probably seen nearly a thousand copies of the 1984 re-issue on Epic 39931 on cassette, but never bought it, even though I've always liked the title track. So last week I decided to also check the cassette listings for the album on eBay, and lo & behold, one seller's listing jumped out at me when I saw the photo, as it clearly had a slightly different cover from the Epic pressings. That told me it had to be one of two things: either it was an import, or a very rare original 1982 Oink pressing. So w/o asking the seller any questions/details about it, I decided to go w/ my gut, and made the purchase - and sure enough, it proved to be the original U.S. Oink pressing! Here's the listing for it w/ the cover photo: Original 1982 Oink cassette And here's what the Epic re-issue looks like, just in case anyone wants to compare the (slight) differences: 1984 Epic re-issue cassette One other interesting side note: The original Oink vinyl LP features "Percy, the Puny Poinsettia" as track 3 on Side One, w/ "Joy to the World" as track 2 on Side Two - yet on the cassette version, those two tracks are reversed. But at any rate, I can now say that I own an original Oink pressing of the album as well (and of course, it doesn't exist on CD!)... :-)

I've been having quite the discussion on this recording
on two other websites lately.

In, what I assume is order of release, I have the disc on
the following labels:

Elmo 'n' Patsy (aka Oink? aka Kim-Pat?) (first recording)
Oink (tan label with black print, first recording)
Soundwaves (first recording, same stampers as the Oink
tan label) [apparently from all that I have read since 9
am this morning is that there is a second Soundwaves
pressing that uses the same stampers as the Elmo 'n'
Patsy/Kim-Pat 45, which I have not ever come across, but
at least two people seem to indicate as owning]
Oink (white label with red print, Epic re-recordings) [I
was too tired reading through everything this morning so
I don't think I ever saw it officially answered... did
the Oink LP for GGROBAR contain the remakes of both
sides? If so, there might be some quasi-legitimacy to
this white label Oink pressing, but if Soundwaves had the
originals out still, there would be a lot of confusion]

Wikipedia is wrong in saying that the Oink 45 contains
the re-recordings, strictly speaking, as only one
pressing of it seems to contain the re-recordings...and
whether or not it's a legitimate pressing is another
thing.