Kermit Schafer's Blunderful World of Bloopers (1970)

 

In reality, the entire title of this record is nearly as long as the program itself:  "HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE TV SPECIAL KERMIT SCHAFER'S BLUNDERFUL WORLD OF BLOOPERS BROADCASTING'S MOST HILARIOUS BONERS VOLUME 1" (not to mention there is a random "UNCENSORED" trying to float into the title somewhere).

Schafer of course is the man who made a career out of collecting comical flubs, spoonerisms, and malapropisms from the world over (supposedly even coining the term "blooper"), filling books, records, and occasional TV specials for decades.  In earlier years of the Internets, you could find volumes of his PARDON MY BLOOPER "party records" on blogs everywhere.  

The common criticism for these records is/was that they almost totally consist of re-creations, but owing to the early days of live radio and TV, this was unavoidable.  It did lead to a few infamous "urban myth" moments from time to time, and it seemed like you heard the same actors over and over on the six volumes of the PARDON series, which of course were later recirculated in other compilations.  By the 1970's and 1980's, blooper-archiving technology had much improved, and Dick Clark took the idea and ran with it (in fairness, he always acknowledged Schafer in the credits).

This LP apparently ties to a TV special, and while I couldn't tell you anything about the show, I can tell you that this is the most pristine record I've ever found in a thrift store.  Besides cleaning it, it needed nothing, and was pristine; like being played for the first time.  Can you imagine buying a comedy LP and never playing it? Then storing it for 51 years? That's like a blooper in itself.

Enjoy:  Blunderful World of Bloopers