HP-9 The Doors: Light My Fire/Break on Through SEALED 1967 Rare Special Cover

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HP-9 The Doors: Light My Fire/Break on Through SEALED 1967 Rare Special Offer Cover
Be sure to see my other Special Offer Hip-Pocket Record Listings
This has been in private collection since purchased.
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These rare and hard to find Special Offer covers were often given away free to promote other products. They play on normal record players at 45rpm, and have two songs; though, they only play on one  side like an album. 
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"The actual record is made of a very thin, flexible plastic or vinyl. It is just short of 4 inches in diameter.  The records are 45's, and could be played on single play phonographs only. I played them on a Philco "Mini Radio Phono"  (9 1/4 inches by 5 1/2 inches), which could also play standard 45's and even 33's. Yes, I still have it."
All the songs were mono mixes - in most cases, that meant combining both left and right stereo channels. Some Hip  Pocket releases, though, had entirely different mono mixes, most notably Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man" (HP-17),  whose mono version didn't appear again until a 1992 CD box set.
The sleeves themselves were nothing more than a listing of the two tracks and a stock photo of the artist or band;  but even in that framework some artistic gems are discovered. The Doors' "Light My Fire" (HP-9) shows a transparent  Jim Morrison superimposed over the faces of his bandmates. Tommy James' "I Think We're Alone Now" (HP-1) shows him with a  trio of comely cuties (folks, I don't think these are the Shondells). John Fred's "Judy In Disguise" (HP-25) shows the band  in an elegant stained-glass motif. And the releases by the Five Americans (HP-10) and Keith (HP-20) could arguably be  called their "Greatest Hits" collections.
Americom envisioned a vending machine to dispense the discs, eliminating the possibility of theft. In addition, the company also issued  titles by the Beach Boys, Deep Purple, Steppenwolf and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Philco countered by giving away a random selection of five discs with the purchase of their mini radio phono. They even dropped the  retail price of their entire catalog to 39 cents each.
Advertising on the back of some of the packages reminded customers that 25 to 50 records could be carried in "pocket or purse" and urged  people to mail them with greeting cards as gifts. They were promoted as "almost indestructible" and "are the most portable form of music."
But the record-buying public wasn't interested, and the flexi-disc experiment came to an abrupt halt.