The Archies “Catching Up On Fun” flexi-disc

I’m pretty sure I got this flexi-disc off a box of Honeycombs cereal—like it was part of the box, and you had to cut around the dotted line (once you were done eating it)—in 1970. Still smells faintly like Honeycombs. There’s a garage sale price sticker on the “label” part—1 cent—so maybe I bought it—or maybe I tried to sell it, and no one was buying (really?)—but either way, I know I got several of these off cereal boxes—gone now—but I have this one. It’s actually 33 1/3 RPM (not 45) but it still plays fine—a little scratchy, but it works—which is a little bit amazing. This one was a series of four songs—all listed like it’s a four-song record, but you only get one at a time. I don’t believe I heard “Catching Up On Fun” anywhere else—it’s an okay song—not one of my favorites. It’s a bit, “I’m gonna go out and try to have sex with everybody.” The “fun” in question is “love,” as in makin’ it. Naturally, it sounds exactly like The Archies. Several of the cartoon characters are pictured, dancing, on the disc, along with a yellow background and black musical notes. So it’s essentially a picture-disc, as well! Ten of them, hippie-era—Archie has a polka-dot shirt, and the girls have miniskirts. I think that one woman is Sabrina—who turned out to be a witch, right? No doubt she was the one they went to for drugs. I used to read Archies comics—I didn’t go for the Superheroes—they creeped me out—especially the disturbing, twisted, sexual undertones. I was kind of a square kid—I liked the bubblegum pop version of sex—though there was still a lot of sex—especially in the comics.

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