A post submitted by CGI member Skyhoop.

(Lynda Note:.. I wonder if it was played on the Dr Demento show? It would have been right up their alley!)

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George Eaton has been writing about Sinbad's SHAZAM, insisting that the movie was real but has been made to disappear. Well, if disappeared, they did a very good job of it because after he said there must be thousands of VHS videos around, I searched Amazon and eBay and found nothing, not even a real movie poster. I also checked IMDb, the Internet Movie Database and it wasn't listed there, either, but only a few little things about the alleged movie, one of which said that what George had posted as a review was an April Fools' joke that Sinbad, himself, helped create. And I must say that the kids acting in that clip were so bad that it couldn't have been from a real movie. ;)

But what about this song, played on our local Top 40 radio station, WTLB, 1310 AM... where did it go?

The song, "How Do I Get An Even Tan?" was a humorous song from the early 1960's, that apparently never existed if you've ever tried to find it, though my brother and I both remember hearing it played... and after more than 60 years, I still remember a lot of the words.

I have searched YouTube a number of times and while I can generally find whatever piece of music I want to hear on YouTube, it has never turned up, only videos giving tanning tips. I have also had a saved search for "How Do I Get An Even Tan?" on eBay for years, and not one copy, presumably a 45 RPM vinyl record, since that is how pop music was sold in those days, has ever turned up. Entering lines from the lyrics in a search engine, namely Duck Duck Go, has always turned up nothing, though entering such lines can often bring up a page with the lyrics to an entire song.

As best I can remember, I was 15 when "How Do I Get An Even Tan?" hit the airwaves of WTLB during the summer of 1962. It only played that one summer, but after 60+ years I still remember a good part of it, it had some pretty clever lines.

To whit:

[Lead male singer]

"All the radio and the television stations
Had their mikes and cameras at the United Nations
Where my girl had the gall
To ask them all...
How do I get an even tan?

[Can't remember what came next, if anything, then...]

First you lay down on the sand
No I think you better stand
Close your eyes and count the waves
Subtract the ultraviolet rays
Add the humidity in Saint Lou
And when it comes to 32
Your done!

[Female chorus]

You know you know you know
The zebra has its stripes
And yet it never bites
The leopard has its spots
And thinks their polka dots

[Lead male singer]

So cover yourself from head to toe
In a tee-nee bikini then you go
And bake in the shade of the sun!"

So is there anyone else out there that remembers this song?. I know that I heard it played many times, way back then, and it's NOT a Mandela Effect thing.

--skyhoop