I do believe this won’t be the only visit that our little blue friends make here at Flashback Friday. I was quite the Smurfy child, if I do say so myself. This inaugural appearance, however, is all about 1981’s The Smurfs All Star Show.

As cheesy as this confession is, this was the only record I ever owned. I was a bit of a sheltered little pup and wasn’t allowed much exposure to popular music until I was on the cusp of teendom. So while all my friends were putting together lovely LP collections that featured Michael Jackson, Sheena Easton, Bon Jovi, Joan Jett, and so forth…all I had were the Smurfs. (Of course, this just meant that I never had to replace my LPs with cassettes…no, no, all I had to do was replace my cassettes with CDs, haha!)

I loved this record. I remember wanting it so desperately that I did everything short of drool whenever I saw the television commercial. I also remember seeing it at the local Safeway and watching as my wonderful father