…But let me tell you anyway.
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks — Seattle World’s Fair
12″ 33.3 RPM — 2 tracks on 1 sides
1962 — Pacific Northwest Bell
Produced by Guild, Bascom, and Bonfigli of 222 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, this record has no official title and no publisher in the usual sense. It was commissioned by and for the Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company, and I’m guessing as to the year because it must have been produced immediately prior to the Century 21 Exposition, as the World’s Fair of 1962 in Seattle was known.
And the reason why I know this is very simple. These two tracks on one side are two versions– two cuts, for different markets– of the same material: radio spots for the Pacific Bell Telephone pavilion at the 1962 World’s Fair, one for Washington, one for Oregon stations. That much, I might have inferred or deduced from the label, minimal though it is, and this description is accurate, but it is not complete.
It’s a Two-Thousand Year Old Man sketch. In fact it’s two of them.
The Junkie Cosmonaut 