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Roth & Bricker – Plant Talk/Sound Advice

Cover: Very Good (VG) (some scratch marks and wear on edges)

Vinyl: Good (Scratches on side two track two but does not skip)

Label: Plant Talk Productions

Format: Vinyl, LP

Country: US

Released: 1976

Genre: Non-Music

Style: Education, Spoken Word

Side A
Plant Talk (English Ivy, Fern, Spider Plant, Schefflera, Philodendron, Palm, Baby Tears, Sun Loving Plants, Brain Cactus, Jade, Croton, Peperomia, Iron Cross Begonia, Dracaena Godseffiana, Nepthytis, Rubber Plant, False Aralia, Ficus Benjamina, Norfolk Island Pine, Wandering Jew, Gardenia, Sansevieria, Piggy Back, African Violet, Coleus, Keep It Green)

Side B
Sound Advice On The Care & Feeding Of Houseplants

Companies, etc.
Pressed By – Rite Record Productions, Inc. – 36415
Pressed By – Rite Record Productions, Inc. – 36416

Matrix/Runout
Side One Label: 36415
Side One Runout: #6173 2  63415-2  3/66  Rite R
Side Two Label: 36416
Side Two Runout: #1173  2  36416-2  2/66  Rite R

Had a good talk with any plants lately?
Have you ever found yourself lying in bed at night and an idea hits you like a “cold slap in the face?" Jim Bricker, owner of Reel Productions did, and this album is the result. Jim’s
idea. nurtured through conversations with Molly Roth (plant shop owner), was to make an album that would make life easier for plant owners by talking to their plants for them and
educating them how to care for their “green friends" at the same time.

“Plant Talk, Sound Advice” is the realization of many hard hours by both Jim and Molly.

Side 2 contains a very complete book on how to take care of the most often grown plants.

Molly found that the advice she gave daily to plant owners became like a record as the same material was repeated over and over and over. This side is for plant owners to use as a
reference.

Side one contains the much publicized art of talking to plants. Molly says “do you speak English. lvy, what's the matter, why are you so droopy? Oh l see, your person really poured the water to you. You don't like wet feet, do you?” Molly continues to talk to the plant while subtly giving the owner advice. 

You may want to play this album to your plants during hours when you are not even home, but you should really treat yourself by listening to Molly talk to your Philodendron, Schefflera, Palm tree and many others. lt’s a real pleasure to see not only your plants enjoying the talk, but you'll find yourself relaxing and the result will surely be satisfying.

“Talking to plants really does help,” says Molly and a flock of experts in the field of growing green things agree. By talking to plants you are giving them the needed Carbon Dioxide, you are also showing them care or love and you are also getting close enough to detect if they need water or have afflictions like red spider.

The following is a portion of a paper by L. E. Carlson (Huntington, Indiana Attorney) which is a book review of “Sensitive Plants” by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Byrd published by Harper and Rowe.

One day in 1966 Cleve Backster, America's foremost lie-detector examiner, was sitting in his office on Times Square in New York with his galvanometer. He had been up all night in his school for polygraph examiners where he teaches policemen and security agents from around the world the art of lie detection.

His secretary felt that the bare office could stand a touch of green so she brought in a potted plant to add a bit to the decor. On impulse Backster decided to attach the electrode of one of his lie detectors to a leaf of the plant, which was a tropical plant similar to a palm tree, with large leaves and a dense cluster of small flowers. He was curious to see if the leaf would be affected by water poured on its roots, and if so, how, and how soon.

To his amazement, the plant responded in a way similar to that of a human being experiencing an emotional stimulus of short duration. Could the plant be displaying emotion? What happened to Backster in the next ten minutes was to revolutionize his life, and may equally affect the planet on which we live.

We are told that when a human being is subjected to a polygraph test, a threat to that person's well-being brings a reaction strong enough to make the needle jump. Backster decided to threaten the plant. He dipped a leaf into a cup of hot coffee which he was holding in his hand at the time. There was no reaction to speak of. Considering this for a few moments, he decided on a worse threat. He would burn the actual leaf to which the electrodes were attached. The instant he got the picture of flames in his mind, and before he could move for a match, the needle on the graph reacted, tracing a pattern in a prolonged upward sweep of the recording pen. Backster had not moved, either toward the plant or toward the recording machine. Could the plant have read his mind?

He then left the room and returned with some matches when he found that there was another surge of the needle on the chart, evidently caused by his determination to carry out the threat. 

With some reluctance, he set about burning the leaf. This time there was a lower peak of reaction on the graph. Later, as he went through the motions of pretending to burn the leaf, there was no reaction whatsoever. The plant appeared to be able to differentiate between real and pretended intent.

Was it possible that plants could think? Could they read thoughts of human beings? Was there some sort of heretofore unknown and unexplored facet of phenomena of plant life to sense thin s not heretofore suspected?

Jim Bricker is the owner of Reel Productions and father of this album. He has been in radio and television productions almost all of his adult life. He worked as state manager, engineer and announcer before starting to produce commercials for small merchants. (Jim is a small merchant himself as he manages a children’s shop along with running Reel Productions.) Jim’s own studio started in his home as an outgrowth of a small Merchant’s need for low-cost, high quality, radio commercials.

Molly Roth, the voice of Plant Talk is owner of a plant shop. Her shop, “The Green Earth”, not only features a girl named Earth, but a 2001 era juke box which has a sign reading.

"Play the free juke box, the plants love it." Molly has made appearances with the sound track to Plant Talk on such giants as WGN radio in Chicago and numerous TV stations.

Molly also had a beginning in Radio as she was a disc jockey before she began a 25 year long affair with green things. She is a real character and a living doll. Keep it green. baby.

CREDITS
Production: Jim Bricker Voice: Molly Roth
Front Photograph: W.Remphrey Burchell
Burchell Studios
Back Photograph: Fred Butz
Cover Design: W.Remphrey Burchell
Drozda-Burchell Advertising
Plant Talk / Sound Advice
Copyright 1976, Plant Talk Productions

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