Here's an interesting record collecting curiosity. After going through some crates of recently purchased rock 45s, out fell this little guy.
The packaging looks like a type of seed pouch that a gardening center would carry. It's a Philco-Ford Corporation product ("Hip-Pocket Records") and the back instructs: "FOR SINGLE PLAY PHONOGRAPH ONLY". Inside, there is a fitted piece of paperboard and a four inch, two-sided flexi record. Side 1 is Van Morrison's "Brown-Eyed Girl" and Side 2 is "Midnight Special" by the same artist.
It's just too bad it couldn't have been a track by his earlier project "Them" or even a Van Morrison single off of Astral Weeks. Now THAT would be Hip (pocket)!
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