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...the "urinal cake...it seems odd... But to answer your other question, in 1968 I was 11 and wore this 45 rpm. Out so badly I had to save my lunch money up and go to the National Record Mart to buy a new copy. As I remember, "Bend Me, Shape Me" was. Also big that year. And I think it is to our credit that the bubblegum pop we listened to was of a superior quality to most of what passes for music today. 
Lfor me the gateway to the hard stuff as I got older... Traffic, Yes, The Stones, Hendrix etc.. It was all groundbreaking music, no one had ever made sounds like that before, or so I thought.
And now, that my formerly long hair has gone grey and away, I am amazed and humbled to find the music of previous generations was light years beyond most of what we did. Most of what I enjoy listening to now is swing from the 20s- 30s, Be-bop from the 40s - 50s, cool jazz of all kinds. All kinds of blues. And Ilearn that a lot of what we listened to was ripped off and watered down from the old stuff. Aerosmiths "Big 10 Inch Record" was a Bull Moose Jackson record from the 50s. Dang.
Well, enough pontification from the old head. DU rocks!
