“Doctor, doctor, gimme the news…
Dr. Fishbein Talks to a Growing Girl “A thoughtful discussion for children and their parents from America’s Dean of Physicians.”
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April 11th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
“My how you’ve grown!”
April 12th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I’m not the only one to find this a little creepy, right? Is she sitting on his lap?
April 16th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
oh RetroHound:
never mind where she is sitting – where is his right hand!!?
yes. creepy.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Part of the problem with Dr. Fishbien was that his breath smelled of baloney and gin but as soon as Dr. Fishbein started talking about the evils of smoking the growing girl just rolled her eyes at him, said “Whatever” then walked out. Not to worry, there were plenty of other growing girls that the good doctor could lure into is lectures.
February 25th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
“…And this thing here is what a man has…”
June 12th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Even at this angle it’s fairly obvious that the “growing girl” appears to be about 30.
July 10th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
creepy … in that it’s so serious.
October 12th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
“I’ve been growing too, my dear. Just look at my lap! hehehehehe”
May 25th, 2011 at 3:12 am
Less Dr. Fishbein, more “growing girl”, please
August 7th, 2011 at 9:55 am
a bit too late I guess… But I am the girl in that photo. My dad worked in the graphics department of the big Chicago advertising house that handled production. The shot was taken in 1963-64 in a professional photo studio… not that doctor’s-officey room. There were a lot of people there bustling around. We never sat like that in relation to one another. We were never less than 4 yards apart. The Dr was a diva and never acknowledged me at all in fact. The whole thing is a collage. So he obviously never looked at me like that, and for all I know they cut out his head and pasted it on that suit. And though it may or may not be obvious even from that angle that I “appears to be about thirty”, I were but 16. So at least that part of it was genuine. I never saw or heard the finished LP… Originally I was supposed to query the doctor off a prepared script for the recording. But that never happened. I eventually received a dummy of the LP cover that I come across in my things now and then with amused disbelief. I was flabbergasted to find it out there on the web today all these years later, and included among “19 Unintentionally Terrifying Children’s Album Covers” on crack.com. I also discovered in the doctor’s University of Chicago archives at http://ead.lib.uchicago.edu/rs3.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.FISHBEIN&q=inventory+King
(believe me you don’t want to go there), that there was a “Dr. Fishbein talks to a growing boy” LP as well.
It was originally to be “…talks to a growing girl/boy about sex”. Anyway I welcome all the ghoulish observations! At last… the recognition the project deserves. Love to hear the record if anyone has it.
August 12th, 2011 at 4:49 am
Fantastic to get your note @Nextgraf and to hear about your experience with this record so many years ago. See if you can find some outtakes of the photo shoot and I’ll post them here! You’re famous! I’ll try to post an mp3 of one of the tracks here soon.
August 12th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Without a doubt Matthew & Staff, this is why LPCL is simply the BEST deal on the internet! What a fabulous story and we just went back into the Time Tunnel… Fabulous!! Thank-You so much…
August 12th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
i wonder how she kept a straight face. maybe that is why the camera angle is the way it is.
August 13th, 2011 at 2:16 am
Hey… is that factual? I’m famous? WOOAAAAH! Who wudda thunk?
I’m afraid I don’t have any other relics from this episode. Only the dummy album… an LP-sized piece of cardboard with the cover pasted on it. I’ve taken recto-verso shots of it if you’d like. The photo continues a bit on the flipside. Looking at it, one thinks “a flimsy business, fame, idn’t it?” And I really hate that bobby pin. Never been a bobby pin person. I was probably wearing bobby socks though.
Seriously, I don’t even recall that shot of me being taken. At no point was I asked to pose. They seemed to be fussing me up and doing light checks and calling me “dear” before the taking what I assumed would be a shot of both of us. I suspect I am just leaning on my elbow while waiting. I still lean like that.
What surprises me whenever I come across this bit of memorabilia is how they got a warm expression out of the doctor. You’re 16-ish, you find yourself in a big ad company photo shoot. Everyone is really busy but really nice. And there is the doctor, impatient, snappish, overweening. The guy looked at me once and my blood ran cold. Since I wasn’t aware of any shots actually being taken, I went home thinking there were going to be other sessions, and the sound sessions, and wondering what I was doing in all this. And then ages later, Dad gives me the dummy album, and Mom tells me that I got a check for $500, which she said she would keep for me… and I assume she did. We kids were used in ads once in a while …flying a kite in an insurance ad; playing the engrossed student in a Bell & Howell school projector ad; on billboards, holding blue ribbons next to giant farm animals in a cold-cut manufacturer ad. (That last shoot was slightly dangerous.) Guess it was easier all round to use an employee’s brat than photographic model agency kids. Anyway… you guys are fabulous. It is great revisiting Dr. Fishbein’s archive of horrors with you. As I said… I had no idea the record was ever released. Love to hear an undoubtedly skin-crawlingly creeeeepy mp3. Particularly since I still know practically nothing about sex!
August 13th, 2011 at 8:42 am
Nextgraf, looking at the ol’ doc and the era it was recorded in, i don’t think he’s going to tell you much….
August 13th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
story of my life, sRw… story of my life.
August 13th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
archie bunker: “i’m against all the right things…i think they should take sex education out of the schools and put it back where it belongs…in the streets…”
August 14th, 2011 at 12:36 am
“dr. morris fishbein” sounds like a character played by eugene levy on SCTV. “when he talks, maybe the men don’t know, but the little girls understand…”
August 14th, 2011 at 5:56 am
I don’t know your exact reference sRw, having lived abroad since 1971. But you’ve touched on something there. I think when my gaze fell on him, he was looking at me without his caring “America’s dean of physicians” face on… nor even his giving a shit for anybody face on. And he would have seen my blood go cold. But I’m getting unintentionally close to slandering the man now.
August 14th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
sounds like inventory box 127 is a good thing to avoid, then.
October 25th, 2011 at 4:21 am
Not at all. A superb experience. A ridiculous cover… but a superb experience.