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Subject: 70s Magazines
Tiger Beat, MAD, Dynamite, Bananas, Highlights, Reader's Digest. What 70s magazines did you enjoy reading as a child or adult?
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I loved MAD, CARtoons and I used to read ALL the little jokes in Readers Digest when I was at my Grandparent's house...we had Highlights at school but I never read it.
modified to add: My sister used to get TigerBeat all the time and she'd give me the pics of KISS and Farrah to put up on the walls of my room! ;D
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Ummm, I liked MAD magazine a bit...
Also read Creem and Circus.
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I loved "Cracked" and the Nanny Dickering reporting section!
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My hero. ;D
http://www.collectmad.com/vivamad/collect/merchand/promopic01.jpg
Cracked was ok but I thought it was just a MAD wannabe.
Cat
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OMG! I had forgotten all about Creem and Circus magazines! I used to tear out and hang up pictures of rockers that I thought were cute.
I read Mad Magazine ALL the time, which I don't know if it was normal for a girl to do or not. I also read Reader's Digest because my dad had them around. I was also into books like Ripley's believe it or not, and anything else that talked about odd things and people. Also, I started getting into a lot of "historical" romance books at that time, teenage hormones I guess. Lol!!
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Bananas & Dynamite were 2 faves! I've searched ebay looking for issues and have seen some I know I owned.
I also read CARtoons, Mad, Cracked, and (Marvel Comics' short-lived version) Crazy. You knew you made it when you were parodied in MAD!
This might be actually 80s, but I remember getting Song Hits (I think that was the name). They had the words to 10 or so current Top 40 hits each issue, along with articles on 2 or 3 artists/bands. I have an issue with Journey on the cover from 83 somewhere in the attic.
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This might be actually 80s, but I remember getting Song Hits (I think that was the name). They had the words to 10 or so current Top 40 hits each issue, along with articles on 2 or 3 artists/bands. I have an issue with Journey on the cover from 83 somewhere in the attic.
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Yes, it was called Song Hits. I, too, used to buy the magazine religiously, from about 1983-86. (It started all the way back in the '50s, I believe, so it was around during the '70s, too.)
But Song Hits actually had the lyrics to a lot more than just 10 songs per month, and not just ones that were in the top 40 - in addition to the wide variety, that was part of the beauty of it, IMO. In fact, I have the August 1982 issue right here next to me as I write this (cover price: $1.25, heh heh), and the cover boldly states, "WORDS TO OVER 80 HIT SONGS". :-) Each issue was broken down into three sections: "Pop", "Soul", and "Country". This particular issue featured lyrics to 33, 29, and 30 songs in each of those three genres, respectively, for a grand total of 92. Included in the "Pop" section were such lesser hits as "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" by David Bowie (only hit #67 on the pop chart) and "One to One" by Carole King (only hit #45), as well as "Have You Ever Been in Love" by Leo Sayer and "Thank You for the Use of Your Love" by Player, both of which failed to chart at all - but it was nice to have those anyway, in the event they got some minor airplay in your area (or you were a fan of those artists in general)...
You're right about the articles - there was always at least one artist spotlighted in each genre (sometimes two in the "Pop" section). The issue I have here features Rick Springfield and Asia in "Pop", Third World in "Soul", and Joe Sun in "Country". There's also a concert review in the "Pop" section (in this case, featured cover artist Rick Springfield)...
Song Hits was published by Charlton Publications, which brought us many other teen & music mags back in the day, including Hit Parader...
BTW, some of the ads in these mags were pretty hilarious, too. Remember the one that proclaimed, "How to make others secretly DO YOUR BIDDING with the astonishing power of AUTOMATIC MIND COMMAND!"? Or "RUB THE BUDDHA FOR MONEY!"? How 'bout the muscle-building one from Charles Atlas w/ the cartoon strip of the dude getting sand kicked in his face while w/ his girlfriend at the beach? And also the ones for fake i.d.'s or driver's licenses from all 50 states? Or even those from the art school that wanted you to test your skills by drawing the faces of various cartoon characters that were pictured? ;-)
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Quoting:and the cover boldly states, "WORDS TO OVER 80 HIT SONGS". End Quote
Thanx, 80smusicfreak! This does indeed ring a bell. I stand corrected. Maybe I was remembering only 10 or so songs that I cared about at the time. ;)
Subject: Re: 70s Magazines
I remember reading Crawdaddy and Trouser Press (had a subscription to that one) and it occasionaly came with a very floppy vinyl 45 that you could play on your record player. I also fondly remember Rolling Stone when it was in newspaper format.
sigh,
Cethlinn
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MAD was my favorite as a kid in the 60's. Sometimes, I couldn't understand some of the humor, so I had to ask my father to explain...
In the 70's, I read National Lampoon for humor.
I haven't read either in years. Way back when, they were extremely Politically Incorrect (i.e: picture of VW floating in lake with caption: If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be president today or photo of Nelson Rockefeller at a podium flipping the bird with caption: Vice President asnwers a question from a deaf student at Harvard University).
Are they still that way, or have they caved in to Clintonista-style Political Corectness?
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I read Tiger Beat, Teen magazine and Seventeen magazine.
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Mad, Cracked and Marvel's crazy they also done one called plop Hammer house of horror was a big one of mine.
Sounds N,M,E.
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i read "song hits","circus","cream","hit parader",and when i was younger,"tiger beat",and "teen beat" were among my favorites,never read mad magazine but i did love "mad libs"
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oh boy.. this is gonna sound so weird. I was just a kid in the 70's and read your usual Teen Beat, TigerBeat, 16, Mad, Cracked, Dynamite, magazines.. but I also would sneak the adult magazines like "True Story" "True Romance" . I remember reading my grandma's "true story" magazines on the front porch and having to hide them if she came out to check on me. I also remember reading those pulpy "True Detective" "True Crime" magazines.. those used to scare the bejeezus out of me.. which explains why I can give you mindless trivia on just about any serial killer out there.. Do they still make "True Detective" or "True Story" magazines? I guess I stick to Cosmopolitan and People and Newsweek now.
Subject: Re: 70s Magazines
I'd get Highlights (til I was about 8 or so) 16, Tiger Beat, Teen Beat and Teen. I'd also read my older brother's Mad, Cracked, Crazy and later, Creem and Crawdaddy.