I was going to talk about Fritzi’s Aerobic Squad, whose set of four home exercise regimes was buried by Jane Fonda’s multimillion selling VHS monster “Jane Fonda’s Workout”. An unlucky combination of releasing on Betamax format and the failure of infomericals selling the tape and equipment sets that included all four tapes, a genuine playable saxophone and legwarmers (as seen on Misty “Rollergirl” Cummings, bottom right) all for a crazy price of $3999.99 meant only seven hundred copies were sold.

The rest went into landfill, and there they remain, somewhere in the Nevada desert out near Area 51.

It didn’t help that the infomercials featured the four ladies pictured: Vanessa Vines, “Maniac” reed, Cummings, and Fritzi Frei, who were great at the moves but when it came to the spruiking became quite earnest and spoke about the years of breath work and lip and thigh control needed to be like them. Not even a set of genuine Samurai swords tossed in for $399.95 if you called now did much to move buyers, though sales of the following Infomercial slot item “Personal Massager” always did extremely well, which was odd because the guy presenting that looked like Ron Jeremy.

I was going to say all that but gave WASAMA QUARTET – Soft Coco [link] a listen.

It’s really nice. I happened to read The 4 (Ridiculous) Types of Pickup Artist Guides, by Seanbaby yesterday [link]. I don’t know how to link the two, something about the disarming power of humour and sincerity, but the idea of someone having this in their collection and pulling it out when that special lady comes around, damn.

Those 700 copies must be in the hands of some seriously smooth dudes.