Who’s Got My Skinny Toe? Final
Don’t pick up strange, skinny toes. What sort of germs do you think are on that thing?
“Skinny Toe” is a story off the old “Scary Spooky Stories” record and is a variation of the “Golden Arm” story that Mark Twain loved to tell. Many kids had great giggling fun speeding up the story on the record player. Courtesy of the awesome WFMU blog, I present “Skinny Toe” at scary, spooky speed.
Skinny Toe, 45 rpm
More:
- WFMU Blog: An Aural Halloween Trinity: Scar Stuff, Arch Oboler, Reverend Frost
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October 4th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
This is AWESOME! I have the Scary Spooky Stories, and the other 3 Troll Records ghost story collections. I grew up listening to these. I always thought some day I would get around to doing some illustrations for some of these because I love them so much. ‘Wait til Martin Comes” is a favorite of mine.
I love this illustration! Thank you for sharing.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
As a children’s librarian for many years, I’m familiar with this fun story. Nice character design!
October 8th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I love it! Nice original approach to the theme too.
October 8th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Nicely done. Very creative approach to the theme.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Thanks for posting this!
My sister and I loved this as kids. We still call each other and leave skinny toes messages all the time!
Great illustration and cool idea to play the record at a faster speed. I am planning on playing the story for my daughter’s 4th grade class this year for the class party. Thinking about making skinny toe cookies!
March 20th, 2010 at 3:50 am
I used to listen to this as a kid. Sped up, the narrator sounds like Cartman from South Park, lol
Excelent picture by the way.