Vintage 1980s Jazz Hands California Raisin Tin Pin 📌 WOW The Memories!

Remember the California Raisins' Jazz Hands? 🙌 The Jazz Hands California Raisin Tin Pin, 1980s

Size: 1 1/2"

Jazz Hands California Raisin tin pin from the 1980s - WOW, the memories! Both big white gloves are up, palms out, fingers spread, and he's got a sly grin, droopy blue eyes with pink lids, skinny black arms and legs and blue-and-white high-tops. Showtime!

WOW, again - the second I saw these it all came rushing back, and I ended up on YouTube watching every Raisin video there is. And honestly, nothing beats a song sung by a California Raisin!

It's a round tin pin with the picture printed right on the metal and a safety pin on the back.

🍇 The Band

Each Raisin had a name and a personality: A.C. Arborman sang, his kid brother Beebop Arborman played drums, cousin Red Raisin played guitar and piano, and their buddy Stamford "Stretch" Thompson played bass.

🎬 Will Vinton and His Claymation

The man who made the Raisins move was Will Vinton, born in McMinnville, Oregon in 1947. He and clay animator Bob Gardiner started out in his Portland basement, and in 1975 their film Closed Mondays won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, the first film made in Portland ever to win one. Vinton later trademarked the word Claymation.

His studio built the Raisins, and a lot more: the Domino's Pizza Noid and the M&M's characters came out of the same shop. The Raisins sang "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration in 1987, which won the Emmy. In 2005 the studio was renamed Laika, the company behind Coraline. Vinton was nominated for five Academy Awards in all.

The California Raisins came along in 1986, and it turns out they've kept popping up for events and cameos ever since without my knowing it. I've been missing out! Some folks list these pins as 1970s, but that can't be right.

These are so highly collectible that the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History keeps the California Raisins in its permanent collection. I'm sure the Smithsonian would be proud to have this one!

📦 About the Supply

Just so you know, the supply these came from sat in big boxes in a warehouse for 40 years~ and then got moved, so some may have a mark or a blemish. Most sellers call them new, but if you follow me you know I'm picky about condition.

Nobody's getting over the Raisins any time soon, so this is a great chance to put one on display or wear it for fun. The supply is finite - once these last Jazz Hands Raisin pins from that warehouse find are gone, they'll be very difficult to acquire.