Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham

Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND / Lydia Pinkham
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 03:20 PM

Endorsement
"I was married seven years and we wanted children badly. I was not in good health and had been treated by doctors without much help. I saw Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound advertised and decided to try it. It helped me so much that I had four children in the next seven years. I recommend ... to every woman with physical weakness." Etc.
Mrs. A. J. Clayton, 506 Madison St., Syracuse, New York.

".... I had pains every month and many bad feelings and I wanted to become a mother but I was very weak. .... The first two bottles made me feel well and strong [I'll drink to that!] and a year later I had a big 12-pound baby ...."
Mrs. C. Owens, Proctor, Minnesota.

The advertising never said a 'baby in every bottle,' but these endorsements fostered that interpretation. The Company was careful about promises, but the endorsements could claim wonders.

Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,jimmydefish
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 05:18 PM

What about the Scaffold? Mike Mc cartney (Pauls Bro'),Roger Wassisname, And John (the beak) Gorman in der sixties -a rioght load of scallies coz I thort dat dey rote tit demselves.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PINKHAM COMPOUND / Lydia Pinkham
From:
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 06:51 PM

Who arranged the music and lyrics for the The Scaffold`s version of Lily the Pink please? This will settle a domestic argument and allow us to sleep at night! Thank you.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,L HARRIS
Date: 18 May 04 - 04:39 PM

I LIVE IN ONTARIO CALIF 91761, IS THEIR A PLACE NEAR ME TO PURCHASE THIS PRODUCT ?   (FOR MENOPAUSE)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 May 04 - 05:12 PM

You can buy the current version by mail. www.hardtofindbrands.com: Hard to find

Also see Numark link given by Q in a posting, far above.

Note: This posting does not constitute a recommendation!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,reba
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 01:27 PM

I've recently purchased a bottle of the Lydia Pinkham because I remembered my grandmother talking about it. I've been trying to get pregnant and thought it might help. Can anyone tell me what will happen if I give it to my husband?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 03:07 PM

Gas pains

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,Damon Raphael
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 02:30 PM

I first heard the bawdy Lydia Pinkham ballad sung by my then (wonderful) girl friend Rosemarie Woschnak, a student nurse at St Luke's Hospital in NYC. I was a freshman at Columbia College which was across the street from the hospital.
Her version as I remember it:

Oh we drink, drink, drink to Lydia Pinkham
The benefactress of the human race
She invented a vegetable compound
Now all the papers show her face.

Mrs. Jones had woman troubles
She could have no kiddies dear
She tried some Pinkham's Compound
Now they come three times a year.

And many more...

An interesting aside to the story is that my uncle, Ben Schneider (deceased), became the President of the Purdue Frederick drug company in the 1950s. That company made "Gray's Medicine" a competing product to Pinkham's Compound, which consisted mainly of Sherry wine. He turned the company into an ethical pharmaceutical drug company with the introduction of Senokot, a widely used laxative.
Gray's Medicine disappeared and our family benefited with the gift of a large quantity of the surplus wine.
Purdue Frederick went on to market Betadine, the widely used antiseptic and lately the infamous Oxycontin.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,Simon Jones
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 06:20 AM

If you give it to your husband his balls will swing below his knees!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: oldhippie
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 11:12 AM

This song with somewhat different risque lyrics is on one of Oscar Brand's "Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads" LPs. I'll see if I can post more later.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,princess
Date: 31 Aug 10 - 12:54 AM

Where can I find this in toronto Canada

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 03:11 PM

Looks like you can order it here from Numark Laboratories.

Or, did you mean you want to buy a recording? ;-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,ladyknight
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 08:20 PM

OMG There's a lot more out there on poor Lydia than I thought. I was told she was Victorian-era, and I think I first heard ONE version of the song in summer camp....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,BAZZA 081967
Date: 17 Apr 11 - 01:24 AM

Hello. I think the rude version one that everybody is thinking about is from the R Certificate Songbook 1969 as I have just bought the album.

So we'll drink, drink, drink to Lydia Pinkham, savior of the human race.
She invented a vegetable compound efficacious in every case.
Oh, Missus Millet had a peculiar ailment. She could hardly fill her blouse,
So they rubbed and rubbed and rubbed her with vegetable compound and now they milk her with the cows.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,dvandorn
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 07:45 PM

There was an album I had a copy of in college 35 years ago, that was at least 5 years old by then, which included the Lydia Pinkham song as well as a version of Yankee Doodle with the original British lyrics, a somewhat Americanized version of Robert Burns' Yellow, Yellow Yorlin, the Ballad of Dead-Eye Dick, the Ropey Squadron (a Vietnam-era version of What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor), the Humoresque with lyrics inspired by the signs in railroad coaches that gentlemen will please refrain from flushing toilets... and many more.

The name of the album was (as best I can recall) Songs Found Written on the Walls of the Washroom at the Library of Congress, subtitled Project of the Society for the Preservation of Scatalogical Materials. One of the primary performers was (or at least sounded *exactly* like) the man who sang the songs in the original cartoon version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Imagine the same voice that sang "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch!" singing "Master Brown had very small testes, they were just like a couple of peas, so he took, he swallowed, he gargled some vegetable compound, now they hang below his knees!"

No matter what I do, I cannot seem to find any trace of this album anywhere on the internet. No discussion of it, no remembrance of it, no references to it at all. I would have thought this discussion of the Ode to Lydia Pinkham would have referenced it. If it's any help, the version of Lydia Pinkham on this album used the following chorus variant:

And we'll sing, we'll sing, we'll sing of Lydia Pinkham!
And her love, her love, her love for the human race!
(Human race!)
How she makes, she bottles, she sells her Vegetable Compound!
And the papers, they publish her face!

Note the grace-note words tossed in to achieve the desired scansion (especially the word 'they' in the last line of the chorus). That should make this version rather unique and memorable -- but none of the versions I see of the lyric include them.

Anyone recall this album? At all? Or should I be looking for the portal back into my own, native dimension where this album exists?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,old bob
Date: 02 Jan 14 - 04:53 PM

One version of the chorus sang by my Dad


We'll drink, a drink, a drink,
To Lydia Pink, a Pink, a Pink,
How she saved the human race,
She invented a medicinal compound,
Made of banana's, $hit and lace

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 18 - 03:59 AM

I remember these verses.

Now Mrs Brown had very small busoms
They hardly showed beneath her blouse
So they gave her medicinal compound
And now they milk her with the cows.

Now Master Brown had a very small Penis
He could hardly raise a stand
So they gave him medicinal compound
Now he comes in either hand.

Now Mr Brown had very small bollocks
They were just the size of peas
So they gave him medicinal compound
Now they hang below his knees.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pinkham Compound / Lydia Pinkham
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 01 Dec 20 - 08:07 PM

Lydia Pinkham's story is very interesting

Lydia Pinkham Was an Inventor and Marketer (thoughtco.com)

The properties of the herbs used in the compound are discussed in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Pinkham