Mammyjammer Players - Etc. Etc. Etc. (MOTHER FUKERS In Concert)

 

A buddy spotted this on the Dusty Groove website. It's not on Discogs. I bought it. It's 35 minutes long: 105 different blackout comedy skits ranging from 5 to 70 seconds each. A few items earn a surreal chuckle, but most of it's just tedious. There are a few men's voices, one British, and a couple women's voices.  It has no copyright or publishing data and it's completely un-Google-able.

On eBay I see a version of this record for sale that has a simple black & white cover; the artists seem to be the Mammyjammer Players, the title "Etc. Etc. Etc." A later version, the one I bought, has an additional red ink layer on the cover obverse/reverse saying "MOTHER FUKERS In Concert". The record label is Mother Records ("Swingin' Mother", according to the front cover), and I know it dates after August 1965 because it references that year's Watts riots. It's basically a party record, but although it includes a few off-color jokes, there's nothing obscene or even blue in the content, which makes the addendum of the "MOTHER FUKERS In Concert" logo an odd choice.

I don't know what "A Marco Production" could mean. The only useful clue is the address on the label, 2534 W. Pico Blvd. in the Pico-Union area of L.A., which in the late 1960s was Nozawa Trading: dealers in martial arts paraphernalia and seller of a fully automatic rice cooker which they advertised nationally in '66 and '67. 

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