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Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth!

The time has finally come. Scram Magazine and Feral House Press have conspired to release upon an unsuspecting world the first true study of the bubblegum music phenomenon. We've cast a critical eye from tin pan alley through the Archies and all the way up to the current crop of kiddie faves, and it's a wild, wild ride. The Firecracker Award-nominated book, edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay, was released in Fall 2001. It's called Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, and you should ask for it by name. Click below for ordering info.

New! Bubblegum message board!

Bubblegum Ball 2001 posters, featuring the book cover in glorious full color and the performers and venue info for the show, are just $5 postpaid from Kim Cooper, PO Box 31227, Los Angeles, CA 90031.

Do you love the Buddah sound? FREE Bubblegum CD when you shop in the Scram Store.

• read Ear Candy's interview with the editors here
• order the book from Amazon or (if you want free stuff) directly from us
• click here to see the Table of Contents
• book bonus: discography of known cereal box 45s
• see some reviews
• visit some bubblelicious links 
• read liner notes from Buddha's latest bubblegum CDs.
• see some Bubblegum Ball 2002 pix

The book's contributors are a stunning crop of current & golden age zinesters, 
pop culture mavens, musicians & fans.

Peter Bagge (Hate comics)... Keith Bearden (WFMU's Lowest Common Denominator)... Derrick Bostrom (Meat Puppets) ... Mary Burt (Sad Magazine)... Carl Cafarelli (Goldmine; Syracuse New Times; Musichound)... Don Charles (Goldmine; Discoveries; Cool and Strange Music)... Chinta & Morgan Cooper (real live kids)... Kim Cooper (Scram) ... Chris Davidson (Cool and Strange Music; CAD Records; Scram)... Katrina Dixon (Charity Shopper zine) ... Brian Doherty (Surrender zine; Cherry Smash Records, Reason Magazine)... Becky Ebenkamp (Brandweek magazine)... Dennis P. Eichhorn (Northwest Extra; Real Stuff comics; Scram)... Peter Geiberger (Scram; Scrum)... Chas Glynn (Scram; Gearhead)... Gary Pig Gold (Pig Paper funzine) ... Margaret Griffis (Antizine; Scram).... Bill Holmes... Elizabeth Ivanovich... P. Edwin Letcher (Garage & Beat! - GAB; Scram; Flipside; Real Life in a Big City; Cheeseburger; Tuffies; Stubbo the cat with no paws comics) ... Mike McPadden... Alec Palao (reissue coordinator, Zombies Heaven and many more)... Partridge Family Temple... Robrt L. Pela (The Advocate; New Times; NPR's Morning Edition; author of the forthcoming book Filthy: The Life and Times of John Waters)... Bill Pitzonka (reissue producer, Bubblegum Classics series; Request magazine)... James Porter (Scram; Chicago Sun-Times, Roctober, No Depression; Living Blue; New City)... Domenic Priore (Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile!)... Glenn Sadin...Metal Mike Saunders ... Gene Sculatti (The Catalog of Cool; San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip; Too Cool, Scram)... Greg Shaw (Bomp Records; Bomp Magazine; Phonograph Record; Rolling Stone; Mojo-Navigator, Scram)... David Smay (Scram, Back of a Car)... Jack Stevenson (Pandemonium; Film Threat; Film Quarterly, Scram) ... Vern Stoltz (Cannot Become Obsolete zine)... Lisa Sutton... Dave Thompson... Tom Walls (The Jeffersons; Hey! Sasquatch; the Claude Pepper Blues Explosion; the Black Eggs) ... Glynis Ward (Feline Frenzy Teen Zine)... J.R. Williams (cartoonist).

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