I found these in my sisters stuff that she must have acquired from my father when he passed away. I thought they where lost forever and couldn't remember what they were called. I also found other regular albums, 78's, and 45's. Was like living my childhood again. The Deuce Coupes are on Youtube. Not sure if Sounds of Sanford are too. I am happy as hell to have them back.
The Roth (or Roth-like) artwork above reminds me I was collecting trading cards or stickers with that style of caricaturized cars and monsters when I was very young***. IIRC, they came in packets like baseball cards w/gum. I think I only gave them up when I moved on to the comic book/magazine CarToons that I couldn't wait to buy every month, for about five years or so. When we would go on family vacations mom would stock up on Mad and CarToons magazines that would be kept from me until we were on vacation. They kept me quiet(er) in the back seat of the family car as I would read and re-read them several times. I sold it all at a family garage sale when I was in my late teens/highschool years. Wish I had it all back now. ***sidenote: The neighbor boy (younger brother to our babysitter) across the street got me started with my love of cars when he showed me all his built & unbuilt model cars. I was mesmerized - some of which were Roth influenced kits. This was '68/'69. Hotwheels followed soon after for Xmas & Birthday gifts - Still have them.
Great! i have a collection of record art. fun to dig through piles at junk stores and try to remember if i have that one at home
Hello, We could not go to the 1959 U.S. Nationals held in Detroit, MI way back then. We were involved in drag racing locally at Lion’s Dragstrip a few short miles away from our Westside of Long Beach house. So, the event came and went in September of 1959. During that time, we were racing and I was filming various local So Cal racers at Lion’s Dragstrip. But, my films were all in a silent mode as were most of the movie cameras then. Our was a 16mm point and shoot silent film model. So, the sounds we heard were in our minds. I showed all of our friends my developed 16mm color drag racing films on a weekly basis at our house. Our friends came over, to watch the films, as well as hoot and holler at the color drag racing on the big screen across the room. It also helped that our mom made a ton of food for all of our teenage drag racing friends. But, the movies were silent, except for the sounds emanating from our friends as the drag racers made their runs. UrrRrrrRRRRRR ... or UUrrrrrr, Uuuurr, Uuuurr, Uuuurr, for those newly developed 4 speed guys. Then my brother dragged (Pun intended) me to the neighboring city’s huge record album + music shop. (Wallich’s Music City in Lakewood.) in late November to listen to the latest LP album of drag racing sounds from the 1959 Detroit Nationals. We sat in the glass booth with headphones on and listened to the drag racing album while others were listening to rock and roll and some jazz. After almost an hour, we bought our own copy to listen to it at home. It was the most comprehensive recordings of individual drag racing sounds we had ever heard. We knew of those guys from other parts of the USA from seeing their names in the weekly Drag News papers we used to buy at Joe Mailliard's Shop or Reath Automotive. It wasn't just drag racing sounds, but identification of specific racers and what they drove. Plus, the recording was straight drag racing, after the announcer introduced the race car(s). no blabbing in the middle of the race or timed run. Jnaki The sounds were copied to an attached reel to reel tape recorder and now, I could try and coordinate the sounds of the real racers to the films I had created in silent mode. The stereo tape player/recorder was in another room and the movies were shown in the living room. I had to run from the cued up tape player position to the other room’s switch on the movie projector to start the color drag racing films. That was early sound action from Lion’s Dragstrip in its very early form. Now, the teenagers still made their own sounds as before, but the action on the large screen had real sounds of the actual racers I filmed earlier that Spring/Summer of 1959. Note: Jump up to 2015 and the discovery of that album in our record collection and instant digital transferring to a flash drive. Now I had digital sounds from that album and could edit them into some of the same racers from 1959 that I had filmed locally in So Cal and traveled to Detroit for the September U.S. Nationals. Here are some versions I created. Real sounds from the exact racers from So Cal racing at Lion's Dragstrip with added sounds from Detroit, when they made the runs at the championships. Enjoy: Junior Thompson from Speed Engineering, Westside of Long Beach 41 Studebaker Sedan B/Gas Class Dragmaster SBC FED from Carlsbad, CA My Favorite: Sidewinder Joe Mailliard & Paul Nicolini from Long Beach There are other sound films I created using the exact original FED race car sounds from the same LP album. They, too have been added to my old 58-60 films. recently, i have exchanged digital films with digital copies from several friends and i am still going through each track to see if the sounds will coordinate with my old 16mm color films from 1958-60. Check out the J NAKI channel on You Tube for other "sound" films. I am still looking for other sounds to coordinate with some of my own action films. There are some, but the announcer was interrupting the actual acceleration sound with his gabbing... YRMV Thanks to those that have contributed their digitized albums. Sometimes the recording is great, but there is no I.D. of who it was, just a 34 coupe blasting down a dragstrip. Some of the others have good recordings + I.D. and I am doing some digital editing to make them fit new racers from So Cal during those early drag racing times.
Flashback time on the drag records…… There were several car guys on my dorm floor in college. 64 Fuelie ‘Vette, 64 GTO, Hemi Mopar, SBC Jeep, and a real 289 Cobra!!! We would all gather in the one room that had the best stereo and put those drag records on and “CRANK IT UP” on Sunday afternoon. Our excuse for “SUNDAY - SUNDAY - SUNDAY” if there wasn’t anything going on at Spruce Creek Dragstrip.. Kids would pour outside, thinking there was something going on in the parking lot. Unfortunately the senior dorm nazi wasn’t of like mind, so we always got busted. HA!
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