dickie goodman
Rod Rupar
I may have the name wrong but does anybody remember Dickie Goodmans goofy
low-rent novelty records which featured his narration punctuated by
snippets of popular songs of the time?
In my memory these records garnered way more attention than they
deserved, so I'm curious about what folks thought of them and
speculations on why they were so popular.
The time period was roughly when Biondi ruled WLS in Chicago.
Thanks for any input. Rod.
Fred Povey
"'Gee whiz, Batman! What happened?'
'Bang bang, they shot me down ...'
Is this the end of Batman? Stay tuned to this record ...
So far, Batman's grandmother has been kidnapped,
Batman has been shot, and Robin has had his 19th nervous breakdown.
But the best is yet to come ..."
Oh yeah, those were goofy but fondly remembered timepieces. They actually
covered a period of about 20 years, from "Flying Saucers, Part 1 & 2" by
Buchanan & Goodman from 1956 ("That was Huckle Berry's recording, 'The
Motor Cooled Down'") to "Mr. Jaws," which went to #4 in 1974. Nearly all of
Dickie Goodman's singles are collected on a recent import CD that has been
advertised in Goldmine (I found a copy of the CD at Tower Records).
Novelty records in general were fairly popular in the '50s and '60s -- "The
Purple People Eater," the Chipmunks, Ray Stevens, Stan Freberg, the
Coasters, etc. And the Dickie Goodman records were disc-jockey-type
productions that DJs thought were funny, so they played them on the radio a
lot and that helped sales.
Norm Katuna
On 2/11/56 Billboard magazine reviewed Baton 220, Chris Kenner------"Don't
let her pin that charge on me", and on Sun, 29 Sep 1996 23:32:53 -0700, on
a totally different subject, Rod Rupar <rp...@clandjop.com>, wrote:
::: I may have the name wrong but does anybody remember Dickie Goodmans goofy
::: low-rent novelty records which featured his narration punctuated by
::: snippets of popular songs of the time?
:::
::: In my memory these records garnered way more attention than they
::: deserved, so I'm curious about what folks thought of them and
::: speculations on why they were so popular.
:::
::: The time period was roughly when Biondi ruled WLS in Chicago.
:::
::: Thanks for any input. Rod.
To the group and to Rod by e-mail
Does anyone remember these??? Well I do. And here are all of the original
45s by either Dickie Goodman or Buchanan and Goodman that I have in my
collection. I thought that I'd better do this now, because if Brian Korn
sees this, he might post all of what he has in his collection, and it will
put mine to shame.
A little side note. Buchanan and Goodman were sued (part of why they did
"On trial") and when the record companies found out that this "break-in"
record was giving their R & B records more exposure than could have gotten
on non R & B stations, the law suit was dropped and "break-in" records were
considered a form of advertising for the records that were included in each
"break-in".
Buchanan & Goodman Flying saucer Radioactive 101
Buchanan&Goodman Flying saucer the 3rd Comic 500
Buchanan&Goodman Flying saucer Luniverse 101
Buchanan&Goodman Back to earth Luniverse 101X (This is the super
rare alternate title of "Flying Saucer"--Brian Korn would kill for this
one. One of the few items in this genre that I can harrass him about not
having.
Buchanan&Goodman On trial Luniverse 102
Buchanan&Goodman Banana boat story Luniverse 103
Buchanan&Goodman Flying saucer the 2nd Luniverse 105
Buchanan&Goodman Santa and the satellite Luniverse 107
Buchanan&Goodman Flying saucer goes west Luniverse 108
Buchanan&Goodman Frankenstein of '59 Novelty 301
Goodman, Dickie Senate hearing 20th fox 443
Goodman, Dickie Mr. Jaws Cash 451
Goodman, Dickie On campus Cotique 158
Goodman, Dickie Luna trip Cotique 173
Goodman, Dickie Ben Crazy Diamond 119
Goodman, Dickie Hey, E.T. Extran 601
Goodman, Dickie Star warts Janus 270
Goodman, Dickie Shmonanza M. D. 101
Goodman, Dickie The Touchables b Mark-X 8009
Goodman, Dickie The touchables in Brooklyn Mark_X 8010
Goodman, Dickie Hey E. T. Montage 1220
Goodman, Dickie Election '80 Prelude 8018
Goodman, Dickie Watergrate Rain Wed 202
Goodman, Dickie The Constitution Rain Wed 205
Goodman, Dickie Energy crisis '74 Rain Wed 206
Goodman, Dickie Speaking of ecology Ramgo 501
Goodman, Dickie Batman & his grandmother Red bird 10058
Goodman, Dickie Horror movies Rori 601
Goodman, Dickie Berlin top ten Rori 602
Goodman, Dickie Santa & the touchables Rori 701
Goodman, Dickie James Bomb Twirl 2015 (Another one that
Brian needs in the worst way)
Goodman, Dickie Mr. President Wacko 1001
Goodman, Dickie Super-duper man Wacko 1002
_________________________________
Norm Katuna
------------------
Jimmy Nelson Cry hard luck RPM 397
Jimmy Nelson Married men like sport RPM 385
Robert Nighthawk The moon is rising States 131
pac...@earthlink.net
> I may have the name wrong but does anybody remember Dickie Goodmans goofy
> low-rent novelty records which featured his narration punctuated by
> snippets of popular songs of the time?
>
> In my memory these records garnered way more attention than they
> deserved, so I'm curious about what folks thought of them and
> speculations on why they were so popular.
>
Rod:
I was in the record business in those days and I vividly remember hearing
"Flying Saucer" for the first time. It was quite a sensation but it
didn't sell all that well in record stores. It did, however, become very
popular on juke boxes which means that "operators" as they were called
back then, bought a lot of copies for their machines. Oftentimes great
juke box sales combined with just fair retail sales could generate enough
volume to create a profitable record for everyone involved. Today juke
boxes aren't as important to the music industry as they were in the 40s,
50s or 60s, so it may be difficult to appreciate what the industry was
like back then.
Eric LeBlanc-CISTI
I just read that BILL BUCHANAN died August 1, Los Angeles, CA.,
at age 66. Does anyone know his full date/place of birth?
By the way, Richard Dorian "Dickie" Goodman died on
November 06, 1989, Fayetteville, NC. He was born on
April 19, 1934, Hewlett, NY.
eRIC
John Frank
pac...@earthlink.net wrote:
>I was in the record business in those days and I vividly remember hearing
>"Flying Saucer" for the first time. It was quite a sensation but it
>didn't sell all that well in record stores. It did, however, become very
>popular on juke boxes which means that "operators" as they were called
>back then, bought a lot of copies for their machines. Oftentimes great
>juke box sales combined with just fair retail sales could generate enough
>volume to create a profitable record for everyone involved. Today juke
>boxes aren't as important to the music industry as they were in the 40s,
>50s or 60s, so it may be difficult to appreciate what the industry was
>like back then.
This is a really interesting topic -- one that I don't know very much
about. Is there anything readily available on the influence on pop
culture of the jukebox industry?
I know that in the 50's there were separate Jukebox charts. And then
the idea of videos was conceived and promoted on jukeboxes by the
Scoppetone films. Were they primarily for Europe or were they big
here? At the time, I don't remenber hearing anything about them, but I
think they were big in bars and at that time I wa too young and
innocent to know about such things...
Each year in SF, the Roxie Theater showcases the old Scoppetones in a
show that includes Lesley Gore's "Wonder Boy," the Exciters "He's Got
the Power," and some rather bizarre ones by the Hondells, Jane Morgan
(!), Bobby Vee, the Serendipity Singers. There's a great one by Al
Brown's Tunetoppers of "The Madison" that takes place in a bowling
alley. Also one of Jody Miller doing "Queen of the House." A lot of
coy, pre-sexual liberation T&A jiggling in the background on a lot of
them. Very campy...
Anyway, I'm getting off the subject of jukebox influence, which I'd
like to know more about...
John Frank
Regina Litman
Norm Katuna wrote:
>
> Does anyone remember these??? Well I do. And here are all of the original
> 45s by either Dickie Goodman or Buchanan and Goodman that I have in my
> collection. I thought that I'd better do this now, because if Brian Korn
> sees this, he might post all of what he has in his collection, and it will
> put mine to shame.
>
(several lines removed)
> Goodman, Dickie Election '80 Prelude 8018
(several lines removed)
I can imagine a line from a hypothetical Dickie Goodman (or similar artist) "Election
'96" record:
Spoken by Bob Dole to Chelsea Clinton, taken from "What'd I Say":
"Tell your ma, tell your pa, gonna send you back to Arkansas!"
(But personally, I am not yet ready to send them back to Arkansas.)
Gary Thiele
> I know that in the 50's there were separate Jukebox charts. And then
> the idea of videos was conceived and promoted on jukeboxes by the
> Scoppetone films. Were they primarily for Europe or were they big
> think they were big in bars and at that time I was too young and
> innocent to know about such things...
I remember the first, last, and only time I saw a Scoppetone box. I
was a teenager on vacation in Virginia City, Nevada in one of those
casino/bar/museum things and they had a machine in the lobby. Had to
play Kay Starr w/ Wheel of Fortune. The video (?) featured some woman
in a Vegas showgirl getup, standing on a turning roulette wheel! My Dad
laughed but I thought I was seeing the future. What a hoot.
Boardwalk7
Here's a capsule history of the Dickie Goodman phenomenon.
In 1955, Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman were looking for an idea for a
song. Flying saucers were all the rage, and somehow they came up with the
concept of having the martians speak as the lyrics from pop songs! And to
make it more interesting, they threw in a running gag about Alan Freed,
who had a penchant for mistitling popular songs when he announced them on
the radio.
Goodman played "John Cameron Cameron" (a takeoff of NBC newsman John
Cameron Swayze), interviewing the local populace about the flying saucer.
Buchanan played the Freed-like radio announcer, continually mispronouncing
the artist and song. Of the clips used, most of them were the R&B
versions of songs that were "covered" by white artists.
2000 copies were printed on Universe records, and had to be hand-marked
with an L when the duo discovered there was already a Universe record
company out there. So "Luniverse" records was born. "The Flying Saucer
(Pts. 1 and 2)" hit the top 10 in 1956 - and immediately the duo was
buried in a sea of lawsuits - copyright infringement and such.
They were later able to successfully convince a judge that their work was
a satire, a burlesque if you will - and therefore was exempt from the
copyright laws. And of course, they made this into a record - "Buchanan
and Goodman on Trial," which also hit the Hot 100.
The duo split up in the 1960's, for reasons I do not recall at this time.
Buchanan made one or two more "break-in" records, while Goodman later used
his "John Cameron Cameron" gimmick to satire the Presidency ("Watergrate",
"Energy Crisis") and pop culture ("Batman and his Grandmother," "Kong").
His hit "Mr. Jaws", based on the shark of the same name, was his first
solo Top 10 hit. Although nobody knows how Steven Spielberg felt about
that hit, it is rumored that Spielberg did squelch Goodman's "Hey E.T."
recording.
Goodman died in 1989 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The reasons
behind his suicide are not known to me at the time of this writing.
Perhaps somebody out there can fill in the blanks left in this thumbnail
sketch.
Boardwalk
Norm Katuna
On 6/16/58 Billboard magazine reviewed Cub 9005, The Preludes------"Kingdom
of love", and on 13 Oct 1996 21:44:34 -0400, on a totally different
subject, board...@aol.com (Boardwalk7), wrote:
To the group and to Boardwalk 7 by e-mail.
::: Here's a capsule history of the Dickie Goodman phenomenon.
::: 2000 copies were printed on Universe records, and had to be hand-marked
::: with an L when the duo discovered there was already a Universe record
::: company out there. So "Luniverse" records was born. "The Flying Saucer
::: (Pts. 1 and 2)" hit the top 10 in 1956 - and immediately the duo was
::: buried in a sea of lawsuits - copyright infringement and such.
What I'd like to know is where my Luniverse 101X-- "Back to earth" fits in?
I've have been told that it's a first pressing and I've been told it's a
rare second pressing. All I know is that not many people have "Flying
Saucer" as titled "Back to Earth" (Brian Korn, are you reading this?) Even
though I don't have the hand-written L, I have known of more copies with
the hand-written L than with the "Back to Earth" title. NK
::: The duo split up in the 1960's, for reasons I do not recall at this time.
::: Buchanan made one or two more "break-in" records,
::: Boardwalk
Where does Buchanan and Ancell " Meet the creature" from 1957 fit in?
There is also the the novelty non-break-in "String along pal-o-mine by
Bucanan and Cella on ABC from 1959. Did they have a falling out and then
get back together, or did Buchanan do a few separate records on his own and
with someone else while he was still with Dicke Goodman?
_________________________________
Norm Katuna
------------------
Professor Longhair No buts-no maybes Ebb 101
Robbin Ray It's a lonesome old world Combo 143
James Reed Things ain't what used to be Big town 117
Charles Board
Been a lot of talk here lately about Dickie Goodman and I've posted
several times over the years bemoaning the lack of a Cd collection,
so when I finally got the a 2-CD, 57 track release last week I figured
I should mention it here.
ARTIST: Buchanan & Goodman
TITLE: Politically Correct?
YEAR: 1995
LABEL: Lunartick Records LT 000 (note: i bought it at import prices, but
there is no indication of an originating country other than a
"Printed in USA". Bootleg? It does say "all songs leased from
Goodman Inc.")
Since Buchanan & Goodman invented the break-in record with "Flying Saucer" in
1956, Goodman charted about 20 times with them (14 solo, plus a handful together
that I don't have on my database here at work). All but one of those charted
singles is included in the 57 tracks on this CD. Inexplicably, his biggest hit
1972's million-selling "Convention '72" is *not* included. Which is particularly
galling since they even found room for one non-break-in record - a boring and
faithful Goodman cover of "Purple People Eater". But the 56 tracks here easily
represent the most comprehensive break-in collection I've seen. (The _only_
other one I've seen was Rhino's 1983 vinyl release DICKIE GOODMAN'S GREATEST
HITS).
Sound is pretty good - I figure most if not all of them were taken from a 45
source, but it's only obvious on a couple of tracks. Liner notes are pretty
much non-existent.
I highly recommend this collection. (I got it from a company called ROCK CLASSICS that advertises in Goldmine, don't know where else it may be
available).
Two questions:
1) Has anyone other than Goodman charted with a break-in?
2) Anyone know where I can get "Convention '72" on CD?
TRACK LISTING with [Billboard position from 1960 on]):
-----------------------------------------------------
DISC 1: (#1-16 listed as by Buchanan & Goodman, even though several of them
are listed by Whitburn as by Goodman solo. #17 listed as by Bill
Buchanan, #18-19 as Buchanan & Ancell, #20 as by Buchanan &
Greenfield, #21-28 as by Dickie Goodman)
1. Flying Saucer (Part One)
2. Flying Saucer (Part Two)
3. Flying Saucer The 2nd
4. Flying Saucer the 3rd
5. Flying Saucers Go west
6. Buchanan & Goodman On Trial
7. Santa & The Satellite (Part One)
8. Santa & The Satellite (Part Two)
9. The Touchables [#60, 1961]
10. The Touchables In Brooklyn [#42, 1961]
11. Santa And The Touchables [#99, 1961]
12. Ben Crazy [#44, 1962]
13. The Banana Boat Story
14. Frankenstein of '59
15. Frankenstein Returns
16. Berlin Top Ten
17. The Thing
18. The Creature
19. Meet The Creature
20. The Invasion
21. Washington Uptight
22. Shnonanza
23. Batman and His Grandmother [#70, 1966]
24. Senate Hearing
25. Election Year 1964
26. Luna Trip [#95, 1969]
27. Lock Up (later known as Mystery)
28. On Campus [#45, 1969]
DISC 2: (all listed as by Dickie Goodman.no. 25 charted under name John& Ernest)
1. James Bomb
2. Energy Crisis '74 [#33, 1974]
3. Mudamed Ali
4. Charlie's Devils
5. Kong [#48, 1977]
6. Laverne, The Fonz & Shirley
7. Watergrate [#42, 1973]
8. Mr. President (One) [#73, 1974]
9. The Purple People Eater
10. Gerry Ford (A Special Report)
11. Mr. Jaws [# 4, 1975]
12. Energy Crisis '79
13. Mrs. Jaws
14. Super-Duper Man
15. Election '80
16. Rocky
17. Mr. President (Two)
18. Inflation In The Nation
19. Star Warts
20. Deep Roots
21. Radio Russia
22. Washington Inside-Out
23. Dallas
24. Soul President Number One
25. Super Fly Meets Shaft [#31, 1973]
26. Hey E.T.
27. The Attack Of The Z-Monster
28. Safe Sex Report
29. Good Night
Charles G. Hill
board...@aol.com (Boardwalk7) came up with this:
>His hit "Mr. Jaws", based on the shark of the same name, was his first
>solo Top 10 hit. Although nobody knows how Steven Spielberg felt about
>that hit, it is rumored that Spielberg did squelch Goodman's "Hey E.T."
>recording.
I'd like to think that he enjoyed it immensely, although I have no reason
to suspect that he did. Anyway, if Spielberg did squelch the recording,
he didn't do a very good job; one copy (Extran 601) found its way to my 45
shelf. Atypically for Goodman, the B-side is a cover version - of "Get a
Job", no less....cgh
*********************************************************
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* If I've said anything to offend you, believe me.
Charles G. Hill
cnc...@bnr.ca (Charles Board) came up with this:
> Since Buchanan & Goodman invented the break-in record with "Flying Saucer" in
>1956, Goodman charted about 20 times with them (14 solo, plus a handful together
>that I don't have on my database here at work). All but one of those charted
>singles is included in the 57 tracks on this CD. Inexplicably, his biggest hit
>1972's million-selling "Convention '72" is *not* included.
I suspect this is because "Convention '72", if it's the one I'm thinking
of, is credited, not to Dickie Goodman, but to some ad hoc act called "The
Delegates" - and unlike the canonical Goodman singles, is on a real
medium-size label (Mainstream, #5525).
According to Wayne Jancik, "The Delegates" were in fact Nick Kousaleous
and Nick Cenci of the Pittsburgh-based Co & Ce label, along with Tampa DJ
Bob DeCarlo, and the writing credits are indeed divided between the two
Nicks (Kousealeous using the nom de disque "Casel"). If Goodman's around,
he can't be heard above the din.
>Two questions:
> 1) Has anyone other than Goodman charted with a break-in?
Apparently "Convention '72" is it. To my knowledge, "The Return of Jerry
Lee", by "George and Louis" on Sun 301 in 1958, didn't chart.
As to where you can get "Convention '72" on CD, beats me....cgh :)
Rickey Wright
Charles G. Hill (dust...@sprynet.com) wrote:
: cnc...@bnr.ca (Charles Board) came up with this:
: >Two questions:
: > 1) Has anyone other than Goodman charted with a break-in?
:
: Apparently "Convention '72" is it. To my knowledge, "The Return of Jerry
: Lee", by "George and Louis" on Sun 301 in 1958, didn't chart.
Nor did "A Talk With the News" by "Steve Soul," a break-in/sociopolitical
comment assembled from James Brown's hits on King around '68 or so. . . .
Rickey
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Hugh Brodie
In article <53s5u2$r...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> board...@aol.com (Boardwalk7) writes:
>Here's a capsule history of the Dickie Goodman phenomenon.
>
>song. Flying saucers were all the rage, and somehow they came up with the
>concept of having the martians speak as the lyrics from pop songs! And to
>make it more interesting, they threw in a running gag about Alan Freed,
>who had a penchant for mistitling popular songs when he announced them on
>the radio.
>
>Goodman played "John Cameron Cameron" (a takeoff of NBC newsman John
>Cameron Swayze), interviewing the local populace about the flying saucer.
>Buchanan played the Freed-like radio announcer, continually mispronouncing
>the artist and song. Of the clips used, most of them were the R&B
>versions of songs that were "covered" by white artists.
>
A friend of mine had a record called "Report to the Nation" recorded
in 1960. Was this a Goodman/Buchanan work? It featured "John
Cameron Cameron" as well as "Nick Dixon" and "John Finerty" in a
1960 election debate. Anyone familiar with this one?
>2000 copies were printed on Universe records, and had to be hand-marked
>with an L when the duo discovered there was already a Universe record
>company out there. So "Luniverse" records was born. "The Flying Saucer
>(Pts. 1 and 2)" hit the top 10 in 1956 - and immediately the duo was
>buried in a sea of lawsuits - copyright infringement and such.
>
>They were later able to successfully convince a judge that their work was
>a satire, a burlesque if you will - and therefore was exempt from the
>copyright laws. And of course, they made this into a record - "Buchanan
>and Goodman on Trial," which also hit the Hot 100.
>
>The duo split up in the 1960's, for reasons I do not recall at this time.
>Buchanan made one or two more "break-in" records, while Goodman later used
>his "John Cameron Cameron" gimmick to satire the Presidency ("Watergrate",
>"Energy Crisis") and pop culture ("Batman and his Grandmother," "Kong").
>His hit "Mr. Jaws", based on the shark of the same name, was his first
>solo Top 10 hit. Although nobody knows how Steven Spielberg felt about
>that hit, it is rumored that Spielberg did squelch Goodman's "Hey E.T."
>recording.
>
>Goodman died in 1989 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The reasons
>behind his suicide are not known to me at the time of this writing.
>Perhaps somebody out there can fill in the blanks left in this thumbnail
>sketch.
>
>Boardwalk
>.
>.
Hugh.
Charles Board
In article <53ugbn$5...@juliana.sprynet.com>, dust...@sprynet.com (Charles G. Hill) writes:
|> cnc...@bnr.ca (Charles Board) came up with this:
|> > Since Buchanan & Goodman invented the break-in record with "Flying Saucer" in
|> >1956, Goodman charted about 20 times with them (14 solo, plus a handful together
|> >that I don't have on my database here at work). All but one of those charted
|> >singles is included in the 57 tracks on this CD. Inexplicably, his biggest hit
|> >1972's million-selling "Convention '72" is *not* included.
|>
|> I suspect this is because "Convention '72", if it's the one I'm thinking
|> of, is credited, not to Dickie Goodman, but to some ad hoc act called "The
|> Delegates" - and unlike the canonical Goodman singles, is on a real
|> medium-size label (Mainstream, #5525).
|>
|> According to Wayne Jancik, "The Delegates" were in fact Nick Kousaleous
|> and Nick Cenci of the Pittsburgh-based Co & Ce label, along with Tampa DJ
|> Bob DeCarlo, and the writing credits are indeed divided between the two
|> Nicks (Kousealeous using the nom de disque "Casel"). If Goodman's around,
|> he can't be heard above the din.
All these years I thought it was a pseudononymous Goodman record (like the
"John & Ernest" hit). Guess that explains why it's not on the CD! ;)
|>
|> >Two questions:
|> > 1) Has anyone other than Goodman charted with a break-in?
|>
|> Apparently "Convention '72" is it.
As someone else pointed out, "Moonflight" by Vik Venus appears to qualify.
It peaked at #38 in 1969 and is (going on my not always so reliable
memory) available on Cd on the Buddah box set.
|>
|> As to where you can get "Convention '72" on CD, beats me....cgh :)
The quest continues......
Charles Board
In article <3262FC...@philly.infi.net>, Regina Litman <rsli...@philly.infi.net> writes:
|> Charles Board wrote:
|> >
|> > 1) Has anyone other than Goodman charted with a break-in?
|>
|> I remember something around 1969 with a space theme by Vic Venus. It was on the Buddah
|> label and featured break-ins from that label's bubble gum hits of the past couple of
|> years. Or is this the same record as the "Luna Trip" on the CD you bought, with
|> Goodman using the Vic Venus pseudonym?
Ah, I'd forgotten that one. I've got the 45 and I believe it's on one of those
Buddah Box CD's sitting on my shelf. Any others?
Marc Wielage
In article <53s5u2$r...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, board...@aol.com
(Boardwalk7) wrote:
<snip>
> Although nobody knows how Steven Spielberg felt about
> that hit, it is rumored that Spielberg did squelch Goodman's "Hey E.T."
> recording.
>
> Goodman died in 1989 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The reasons
> behind his suicide are not known to me at the time of this writing.
> Perhaps somebody out there can fill in the blanks left in this thumbnail
> sketch.
>
<snip>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
I don't think Spielberg personally squelched "Hey E.T.," but Universal's
legal department is fairly intense and intimidating. They went absolutely
nuts going after everything and anything that said "E.T." on it in the
summer of 1982; Dr. Demento even got hit with a "cease & desist" order not
to play a non-commercial parody titled "I Had Sex with E.T.," which the
artist had to change to "I Had Sex on TV," which is, ah, not quite the
same thing. (Happily, I think I snagged a copy of the real thing before
he stopped playing it.)
Dickie Goodman's son was on the Howard Stern Show just a few months ago
for about a 20-minute interview. Stern praised Goodman very highly, and
said that he loved those records when he was a kid growing up; he said
that those break-in records inspired him to do similar (nastier) parodies
on his radio shows over the years.
Goodman's son, who is now about 30 and works for a furniture store in the
LA area, says that his father was beset with gambling debts and occasional
bouts of depression, and hadn't had a record out for a long time. He says
he got the call while at school that his father had killed himself with a
shotgun in a room in his son's house. So that was his take on it.
Goodman's son also says he's tried to get several record labels interested
in reissuing his father's material, but hadn't found any takers. I think
that everybody's scared off by the legal clearance problems.
I have a Swedish CD compilation of a lot of Dickie Goodman singles, called
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BUCHANAN & GOODMAN, on the
"Sting" label (#S8239). It's all from mono vinyl, but it's no
worse-sounding than the original 45's were, and this has got about 20
singles on it for $12.
--MFW
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Charles G. Hill
>It peaked at #38 in 1969 and is (going on my not always so reliable
>memory) available on Cd on the Buddah box set.
This is me being embarrassed: I actually *have* "Moonflight" on 45
(Buddah 118). Anyone know who Vik Venus really is?
I also turned up one other such record on my shelf outside the Goodman
canon, but it's from 1976 and doesn't fit in here any better than did
"Convention '72", I suspect. :)
When I was much younger (and when I had a working four-track recorder), I
used to make up stuff like this myself. Please tell me I'm not the only
one....cgh
Andrew Rogers
Charles G. Hill wrote:
> This is me being embarrassed: I actually *have* "Moonflight" on 45
> (Buddah 118). Anyone know who Vik Venus really is?
From the answer key to Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz #69:
| I see your ship is coming to a stop. Why is that?
| "One, two, three red light, you stop me"
| What happens if you can't get started again?
| "It's the worst that could happen"
| Commander, I'm afraid we've run out of time.
| Is there any closing comment you'd like to make?
| "Have mercy, mercy, have mercy on me
| Have mercy, mercy, mercy on me"
|
| #23) Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man): "Moonflight" (69) [38]
|
| [Ellis noted that Vik was NYC DJ Jack Spector, one of the original WMCA Good
| Guys, who passed away 3/8/94, at the age of 66, while on the air at WHLI,
| Hempstead, NY. It was a novelty record (of the Buchanan & Goodman genre)
| featuring bits of other original hits & was Venus' only charted record]
| [Andrew added that to avoid copyright/licensing problems that plagued Dickie
| Goodman, the Buddah staff producers who contrived this "break-in" quoted only
| songs from their own label! The above lyrics quote the 1910 Fruitgum Co.'s
| "1-2-3 Red Light," the Brooklyn Bridge's "Worst That Could Happen" & the Ohio
| Express' "Mercy"]
My garage band in high school even performed it live!
Andrew
Rick Deerfield
dust...@sprynet.com (Charles G. Hill) wrote:
>When I was much younger (and when I had a working four-track recorder), I
>used to make up stuff like this myself. Please tell me I'm not the only
>one....cgh
Hi All:
I thinks ALL Dickie Goodman freaks made (or tried to make) break-ins
tapes as kids.
I still have a few of them, mostly in fairly poor taste, I might add.
Anyone else?
Let's hear from other warped people around the country.
Are you familiar with the break-in ("Party In Outer Space") done by
Albert Brooks on an early 70's concept album he did?
Later...
Rick
Andrew Rogers
Charles G. Hill wrote:
> When I was much younger (and when I had a working four-track recorder), I
> used to make up stuff like this myself. Please tell me I'm not the only
> one....cgh
I made up lots of scripts for break-ins, but didn't have access to a
decent tape deck at the time. I'm sure many Dickie Goodman fans have
at least gotten that far.
Andrew
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Organization: Whirlin Disc Records (1-516)694-1145 Farmingdale, N.Y.
Distribution:
Charles G. Hill (dust...@sprynet.com) wrote:
: cnc...@bnr.ca (Charles Board) came up with this:
: >As someone else pointed out, "Moonflight" by Vik Venus appears to qualify.
: >It peaked at #38 in 1969 and is (going on my not always so reliable
: >memory) available on Cd on the Buddah box set.
: This is me being embarrassed: I actually *have* "Moonflight" on 45
: (Buddah 118). Anyone know who Vik Venus really is?
: I also turned up one other such record on my shelf outside the Goodman
: canon, but it's from 1976 and doesn't fit in here any better than did
: "Convention '72", I suspect. :)
: When I was much younger (and when I had a working four-track recorder), I
: used to make up stuff like this myself. Please tell me I'm not the only
: one....cgh
: *********************************************************
: * Charles G. Hill < dust...@sprynet.com >
: * Endlessly grumbling at http://pages.prodigy.com/cghill/
: * If I've said anything to offend you, believe me.
Vick Venus was really Jack Spector A New York DJ on WMCA later on WCBSFM
Did sports for a while for WFAN and was working fir WHKI on Long Island
when he had a massive heart attack and died while he was on the air.
Steve
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(1-516)694-1145 Home of the Oldies.
http://cyberactive-1.com/w-disc/
Marc Wielage
In article <53vqjp$6...@nrtphc11.bnr.ca>, cnc...@bnr.ca (Charles Board) wrote:
>
> Ah, I'd forgotten that one. I've got the 45 and I believe it's on one of those
> Buddah Box CD's sitting on my shelf. Any others?
Here's a quick list of all the charted break-in singles I know of (from
the 1950s and 1960s):
Audrey - "Dear Elvis (Pages 1 & 2)"
Buchanan & Ancell - "The Creature (from a Science-Fiction Movie) (Parts 1
& 2)"
Buchanan & Goodman - "The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2)"
Buchanan & Goodman - "Buchanan and Goodman On Trial"
Buchanan & Goodman - "Flying Saucer the 2nd"
Buchanan & Goodman - "Santa and the Satellite (Parts 1 & 2)"
Dickie Goodman - "The Touchables"
Dickie Goodman - "The Touchables in Brooklyn"
Dickie Goodman - "Santa and the Touchables"
Dickie Goodman - "Ben Crazy"
Dickie Goodman - "Batman & His Grandmother"
Dickie Goodman - "On Campus"
Dickie Goodman - "Luna Trip"
Mickey Shorr & The Cutups - "Dr. Ben Basey"
Spencer & Spencer with the Sonia Pryor Choir - "The Russian Band Stand"
Vik Venus - "Moonflight"
If I'm leaving any out, let me know and I'll add 'em to the list.
--MFW
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MusicTrax, Ltd. | Compuserve: 76702,1025
Chatsworth, CA | AOL: mfw6
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Norm Katuna
On 8/3/59 Billboard magazine reviewed Kapp 292, Dick Dixon and the
Roomates------"Caterpillar Crawl", and on Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:52:08 -0400,
on a totally different subject, Andrew Rogers <rog...@hi.com>, wrote:
::: Charles G. Hill wrote:
::: > When I was much younger (and when I had a working four-track recorder), I
::: > used to make up stuff like this myself. Please tell me I'm not the only
::: > one....cgh
::: I made up lots of scripts for break-ins, but didn't have access to a
::: decent tape deck at the time. I'm sure many Dickie Goodman fans have
::: at least gotten that far.
:::
::: Andrew
::: dust...@sprynet.com (Charles G. Hill) wrote:
:::
::: >When I was much younger (and when I had a working four-track recorder), I
::: >used to make up stuff like this myself. Please tell me I'm not the only
::: >one....cgh
Come to think of it, back in the early 60s when I first starting
collecting, a few of us did just that at my friend's house with his 4 track
reel to reel.
We used to put each other down and here's two song's and the instances
used. It was kind of like a break-in version of "Say man".
The object of our derision was a guy named Bob Bauer.
Narrator: "When Bob Bauer was born and his father first saw him, the father
turned to the wife and said 'What did I do wrong'"-( I played the Firefly's
record of "What did I do wrong")
Narrator: When Bob Bauer was much older and got married his friends
described his wife as this "I got a big fat woman"--(The flip of "Do you
wanna dance" by Bobby Freeman).
There were lot's more but this is all I could remember.
Most people in this group do not know of many other break-ins other than
the major B & G stuff. I will list all of my non Buchanan and Goodman
records (as usual these are all original 45s), but my friend Brian Korn has
probably 3 times the amount of break-ins that I have.
If you will notice, Spencer and Spencer "Russian Bandstand" (which I do
have) is not listed. This is because it isn't a break-in record, not even
close.
Audrey Dear Elvis Plus 104
Barry & Berner out of world w/flying saucers RPM 469
Bee, Joe Trip to Moscow Stop 402
Ben Blur The chariot race Mark-X 8007 (Terrible record--one
of the worst break-ins of all time)
Blenders Wake up to music RCA 6712(Kind of iffy in the
break-in department.)
Captain Zap The luney landing Motown 1151
Delegates Convention '72 Manstrm 5525
Editors My son the bed bug Dexter 101
Etzell, Jack Meanwhile at the convention Rat 45-1
Fern, Bill The big game Sport 505 (another obscure but terrible
record)
Field, Jerry The trial Parkway 801
Five year-old humorous Diane Interview with Mr-K
Veltone 712
Freddy and Friend The great campus raid Campus 121(very obscure
and rare)
Freed, Alan Space man Coral 61693
Geddins, Bob The trial Jumping 5000
Geddins and Son's Space moon Jumping 5000l (The number one
want on Brian Korn's want list)
George and Lewis Return of Jerry Lee Sun 301
Grand Canyon Evil Boll-weevil Bang 713
Haney, Jack Interview (Summit chanted evening) Melody 107
Hardsell,Harold Speaking of streaking Dunhill 4384
Herman, Cleve In this corner Capco 103
Imus, Don Son of checkers RCA 0982
Incognitos Dee Jay's dilemma Zee 001
John & Ernest Soul president number one Rainy Wed 203
Lawrence, Syd U. F. O. Cosmic 1001
Legal eagles The trial Arch 1607
Leonard, Bobby Project Venus Unity 2114
Lieber, Stoller The election year 1964 Red bird 10013
Mad Martians Outer space looters Satellite 45(Very rare)
Mad Milo Elvis for xmas Million 20018
Marty Marty on planet Mars Novelty 101
Missles Space ship Novel 200
Moore, Harv Interview of the fab four Amer arts 20
Nasey, Ron Camer The panic Rendvous 137
Nazy, Don Cameron The great debate TRey 3013
Newshounds Press conference Ragun 001
Noel, Sid Flying saucer Aladdin 3331 (This was
"Flying Saucer" but done with Aladdin artists)
O'ryan, Jack Political circus Nocturne8
Oshins, Milt All about Elvis Pelvis 169
P. Q. Rock n' roll All about Elvis Pelvis 169
Professer bug Beatlemania Beetle 1600
Ron and Jon Hawaii strikes back Sick 50
Ruff and Reddy Henry goes to the moon Cavalier 876
Sharpe & Kerlin The big goof Space 1999
Shorr, Mickey DR. Ben Basey Tuba 8001
Smith, Susan A letter to Susan Dynamic soundnd 502
Solomon, Ed Beatle flying saucer Diamond 160
Sootz, Manny Cape Canaveral Pirate 841
Space man Blast off Chess 1789
Stuart, Gary Interview on Capitol hill Kristin 14001
Those five guys you-eff-oh Quill 103
Venus, Vik Moonflight Buddah 118
Venus, Vik Moonjack Buddah 138
Volkswagons Astronaut Do-re-mi 201
Wally & Charlie Cape Canaveral Senator 712
Washer Windshield Kathy Young finds the Innocents guilty Indigo(Not
only is this a super rare and hard to find item, it comes with an even
rarer title sleeve)
Winkly & Nutly Report to the nation MK 101
Zanies Will real Frankenstein stand up Dore 853
_________________________________
Norm Katuna
------------------
Todd Rhodes Your mouth got a hole in it King 4648
Todd Rhodes Let-down blues King 4666
Joe Robinson Suspicious of my woman RCA 50-0052
Marc Wielage
You commented:
>To the group and to Marc by e-mail. Big mistake here. "Russian bandstand"
>has never been and never will be a break-in record. I just played my copy
>to make sure I didn't step on my.........., when I made my comments about
>this. There is nothing in "Russian bandstand" that would even remotely
>make this a break-in record.
>
----------------------------------------
Welllllll, yes and no. It's not a true break-in record in that they
aren't using *real* songs to punctuate or satirize a current event. All
the songs are self-contained satires of existing songs, with the lyrics
changed and so on. But it is a medley where a fake DJ interrupts a group
of songs every so often. I'd call it a *variation* of a break-in, but not
a true one.
Demento played it just a few weeks ago, and I thought it was actually
pretty funny, even though it only made #91 back in mid-1959. It also IS a
Dickie Goodman production (with his then-partner Mickey Shorr), so for
purposes of this discussion, I think it falls into the "close enough for a
cigar" category. And it's not a "big mistake." Lighten up.
Bouresteve
In article <543rij$i...@kirin.wwa.com>, ric...@wwa.com (Rick Deerfield)
writes:
>>When I was much younger (and when I had a working four-track recorder),
I
>>used to make up stuff like this myself. Please tell me I'm not the only
>>one....cgh
>
>Hi All:
>I thinks ALL Dickie Goodman freaks made (or tried to make) break-ins
>tapes as kids.
>I still have a few of them, mostly in fairly poor taste, I might add.
>Anyone else?
>Let's hear from other warped people around the country.
Circa 1960, mine was called *Trip to the Moon*...
The following is from memory only. They were going for *Fame &
Fortune/Elvis*. The trip lasted *40 Days/?*. On the moon , they became
*Breathless/Jerry Lee Lewis*. The soil was *White Silver Sands/?*. Their
diet consisted of *Tequila/Champs*. They were afflicted with the *Heebie
Jeebies/Little Richard*. And I think they crash landed on the way back,
and used the crash sound from *Transfusion/Nervous Norvus*.
Thanks for jogging a memory that was a helluva lot of fun making.
Steve
Norm Katuna
On 8/3/59 Billboard magazine reviewed Kapp 292, Dick Dixon and the
totally different subject, m...@musictrax.com (Marc Wielage), wrote:
::: Here's a quick list of all the charted break-in singles I know of (from
::: the 1950s and 1960s):
::: Spencer & Spencer with the Sonia Pryor Choir - "The Russian Band Stand"
::: --MFW
:::
::: ------------------------------------------
::: Marc Wielage | m...@musictrax.com
To the group and to Marc by e-mail. Big mistake here. "Russian bandstand"
has never been and never will be a break-in record. I just played my copy
to make sure I didn't step on my.........., when I made my comments about
this. There is nothing in "Russian bandstand" that would even remotely
make this a break-in record.
Regina Litman
Marc Wielage wrote:
>
> Welllllll, yes and no. It's not a true break-in record in that they
> aren't using *real* songs to punctuate or satirize a current event. All
> the songs are self-contained satires of existing songs, with the lyrics
> changed and so on. But it is a medley where a fake DJ interrupts a group
> of songs every so often. I'd call it a *variation* of a break-in, but not
> a true one.
>
> Demento played it just a few weeks ago, and I thought it was actually
> pretty funny, even though it only made #91 back in mid-1959. It also IS a
> Dickie Goodman production (with his then-partner Mickey Shorr), so for
> purposes of this discussion, I think it falls into the "close enough for a
> cigar" category. And it's not a "big mistake." Lighten up.
>
> --MFW
I never heard "Russian Bandstand", but I heard a record called "Go Go Radio Moscow" by
Nikita the K on WPGC in Washington a few times in early 1967. It contained parodies of
parts of three songs, which were:
"Tell it to the Snow" by the Four Freezins (from "Tell it to the Rain" by the Four
Seasons)
"Georgeski Boy" by the Shriekers (from "Georgy Girl" by the Seekers)
"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by the Red Magoos (from "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet" by the
Blues Magoos)
(Obviously not the same "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" that was done by BTO several years
later.)
Brian Korn
no...@cts.com (Norm Katuna) wrote:
>On 8/3/59 Billboard magazine reviewed Kapp 292, Dick Dixon and the
>Roomates------"Caterpillar Crawl", and on 17 Oct 1996 03:29:01 -0700, on a
>totally different subject, m...@musictrax.com (Marc Wielage), wrote:
>
>
>
>::: Here's a quick list of all the charted break-in singles I know of (from
>::: the 1950s and 1960s):
>
>::: Spencer & Spencer with the Sonia Pryor Choir - "The Russian Band Stand"
>
>::: --MFW
>:::
>::: ------------------------------------------
>::: Marc Wielage | m...@musictrax.com
>
>
>To the group and to Marc by e-mail. Big mistake here. "Russian bandstand"
>has never been and never will be a break-in record. I just played my copy
>to make sure I didn't step on my.........., when I made my comments about
>this. There is nothing in "Russian bandstand" that would even remotely
>make this a break-in record.
I have to agree with that Norm. There's alot of sound effects and
noises, but no songs that really answer any questions that make up my
idea of break-in record.
But Mark, it is a great record. One of Dickie Goodmans better efforts.
Brian Korn
Norm Katuna
On 8/3/59 Billboard magazine reviewed Kapp 292, Dick Dixon and the
:::
::: >To the group and to Marc by e-mail. Big mistake here. "Russian bandstand"
::: >has never been and never will be a break-in record. I just played my copy
::: >to make sure I didn't step on my.........., when I made my comments about
::: >this. There is nothing in "Russian bandstand" that would even remotely
::: >make this a break-in record.
::: ----------------------------------------
:::
:::
::: Welllllll, yes and no. It's not a true break-in record in that they
::: aren't using *real* songs to punctuate or satirize a current event. All
::: the songs are self-contained satires of existing songs, with the lyrics
::: changed and so on. But it is a medley where a fake DJ interrupts a group
::: of songs every so often. I'd call it a *variation* of a break-in, but not
::: a true one.
:::
::: Demento played it just a few weeks ago, and I thought it was actually
::: pretty funny, even though it only made #91 back in mid-1959. It also IS a
::: Dickie Goodman production (with his then-partner Mickey Shorr), so for
::: purposes of this discussion, I think it falls into the "close enough for a
::: cigar" category. And it's not a "big mistake." Lighten up.
:::
::: --MFW
::: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
::: -= Marc Wielage | CompuServe's CENETWORK: 76702,1025 =-
To the group and to Marc by e-mail.
Let's see here. How can you have a variation of a break-in record. A
break-in record is one where songs of the day or in some cases, songs of
the past are interspersed among dialog (usually) to create some kind of
story. If there are no intelligible real recorded songs used then all
you have is a novelty record.
I did some researching with some experts to see what they thought of the
original "Russian band stand" as being considered a break-in record. Steve
Propes--"No way, it's a novelty record, not a break-in". Brian Korn one of
the biggest break-in collectors in the world, "No way is the Spencer and
Spencer record, in it's original 1959 form, considered a break-in record."
I feel the same way. It is not a break-in record. There are two spots in
the original where there is 3 seconds of some record being played
backwards. No one has the faintest idea about what is being played. You
could have someone belching and get the same incoherent effect.
Now comes the kicker. Marc Wielage from what he heard on the Dr. Demento
show that he mentions from a few weeks ago, did hear a break-in version of
"Russian band stand". But, this was put together and customized by the
good Dr. in the early 80s. How do I know this?? I talked to Barry (Dr.
Demento) earlier today about this controversy.
It seems that the Doc had this record by an artist called B. B. Gabor who
did a decent Russian imitation. Gabor did a couple of songs called "Nyet
nyet" and "Moscow drug club" in the late 70s or early 80s. The Doc
thought it would be funny to run "Bandstand" through a tape recorder and
then add segments of the two B. B. Gabor songs and make his own break-in
version of "Russian band stand". Barry told me that this was the version
that he played on his show a couple of weeks ago, and this was the version
that Wielage heard.
So the altered version is an 80s break-in record. The unaltered original,
which is what we usually talk about around here, is not a break-in record.
So Marc, you really did think that you were hearing a break-in when
listening to the Demento show, and I apologize for saying you were wrong.
I did not know of the customized version.
I also learned something along the way with all of this. I knew that
Mickey Shorr had a lot to do with this record, but I didn't realize the
Dickie Goodman was one of the Spencers.
Norm Katuna
On 8/3/59 Billboard magazine reviewed Kapp 292, Dick Dixon and the
totally different subject, cnc...@bnr.ca (Charles Board), wrote:
:::
::: Been a lot of talk here lately about Dickie Goodman and I've posted
::: several times over the years bemoaning the lack of a Cd collection,
::: so when I finally got the a 2-CD, 57 track release last week I figured
::: I should mention it here.
:::
::: ARTIST: Buchanan & Goodman
::: TITLE: Politically Correct?
::: 6. Buchanan & Goodman On Trial
I guess I'm killing this thread but, I need to know something about the CD.
There is a rare alternate take to the above song "On Trial". Most people
only know the version where a few seconds after the "Stranded in the
jungle" snip the say "Call your next witness and aren't you Skinny Dynamo?"
and he sings "Yes it's me I'm in love again". That's the common version.
Well did you know that there is an alternate version, with just that one
little segment that is different. After the "Stranded in the jungle bit"
the you "Call the next witness" and then they say "where do you live"?
and then there is a little snippet that goes "Behind the green door".
Anyone with the CD, can you listen to that "On trial" cut and tell me which
version is being used??--Skinny Dynamo or "where do you live--behind the
green door". Only one or the other will be there and it will be about in
the middle of the record.
I just got done talking to Brian Korn and playing him the rare "Green door"
version and he had never heard of that one before--ever. BTW, being the
collector that I am, I had to shell out $20 tonight for the rare version on
45.
Also, John Wade, John Frank or anyone else that might have the original
45, which version do you have?? I'd like to know if it is really that
rare.
Norm Katuna
On 8/3/59 Billboard magazine reviewed Kapp 292, Dick Dixon and the
on a totally different subject, Regina Litman <rsli...@philly.infi.net>,
wrote:
::: I never heard "Russian Bandstand", but I heard a record called "Go Go Radio Moscow" by
::: Nikita the K on WPGC in Washington a few times in early 1967. It contained parodies of
::: parts of three songs, which were:
:::
::: "Tell it to the Snow" by the Four Freezins (from "Tell it to the Rain" by the Four
::: Seasons)
::: "Georgeski Boy" by the Shriekers (from "Georgy Girl" by the Seekers)
::: "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by the Red Magoos (from "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet" by the
::: Blues Magoos)
:::
::: (Obviously not the same "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" that was done by BTO several years
::: later.)
Ah, the good old Nikita the K. record. This has to be one of the best
take-off (do it your self break-in type) records on break-in records. As
Regina has said, all of the songs used are parodies (done by Ed Lubinski
and his group) of existing songs.
This particular item is very hard to come by and fairly desirable. This
fact is not reflected in the 45 rpm price guides. I used to have people
standing in line for a copy of this record. If I remember correctly I was
the one that got Dr. Demento his first actual vinyl (styrene) copy of this.
Before that he had it only on tape.
Nikita the K was some guy named Ed Lubinski and as far as I know this was
his one claim to fame.
An interesting fact here is about the record label itself. Publisher's
credit is given to the three songs that were parodied in this record. I
guess they wanted to make sure that there were no lawsuits or
misunderstandings about the intent of the record.
Here's some info if anyone is still actually looking for this record.
Warner Bros. 7005--- Nikita the K (and the friends of Ed Lubinski)---"Go
go radio Moscow"
mike arcidiacono
>
> I remember the first, last, and only time I saw a Scoppetone box. I
> was a teenager on vacation in Virginia City, Nevada in one of those
> casino/bar/museum things and they had a machine in the lobby. Had to
> play Kay Starr w/ Wheel of Fortune. The video (?) featured some woman
> in a Vegas showgirl getup, standing on a turning roulette wheel! My Dad
> laughed but I thought I was seeing the future. What a hoot.
Well, dont laugh too hard...I collect Scopitone films on video, and some
of them are priceless. The one of Dion doing Ruby Baby is outstanding,
as is Nancy Sinatra doing "Boots". My favorite is Buddy Greco singing
"The Lady is a Tramp". I would say I have around 30 of them, and Im
looking for more. They are a priceless glimpse of our '60s culture, in a
3 minute capsule. Whats really funny are the regulars, the go go girls
who appear in several films...they are gorgeous besides!! Great stuff!!
Regina Litman
Charles G. Hill wrote:
>
> When I was much younger (and when I had a working four-track recorder), I
> used to make up stuff like this myself. Please tell me I'm not the only
> one....cgh
>
I've never actually gotten around to making a break-in record, but I have fantasized one
recently. First, I hope no one from where I work is lurking, because it is about
people where I work.
I work as a computer programmer in an insurance company. We have several great users we
deal with. I have fantasized a break-in record about my dealings with them. Here are
some of my ideas:
We have one user named Cass. She's supposed to come to a meeting, but, in the words of
the Mamas and Papas in "Creeque Alley": "Cass can't make it, she says we'll have to
fake it. We knew she'd come eventually." (Because she always does show up eventually.)
Then, there are Carol and Alice. In the words of Neil Sedaka, I would ask Carol,
because I know she is quite knowledgeable, for her help: "Oh, Carol! I am but a fool."
She would tell me, in the words of the Jefferson Airplane in White Rabbit, "Go ask
Alice. I think she'll know." So, I'd go to Alice, and ask her, using Boyce and Hart's
repetition of her first name from "Alice Long".
For Barb, I'd use the repeated first syllable of the name from "Barbara Ann" by either
the Regents or the Beach Boys. (But I know her middle name is not Ann!)
Two of the managers down there are a woman named Bonnie and another person whose last
name is Delaney. I know this is out of the range of the discussion for this group, but
the theme of this whole cut-in would be "never-ending" work based on the song "Never
Ending Song of Love" by Delaney and Bonnie and Friends.
I hope that if anyone from my office ever did get wind of this, they would see it as the
compliment I intended it to be.
Marc Wielage
>
> It seems that the Doc had this record by an artist called B. B. Gabor who
> did a decent Russian imitation. Gabor did a couple of songs called "Nyet
> nyet" and "Moscow drug club" in the late 70s or early 80s. The Doc
> thought it would be funny to run "Bandstand" through a tape recorder and
> then add segments of the two B. B. Gabor songs and make his own break-in
> version of "Russian band stand". Barry told me that this was the version
> that he played on his show a couple of weeks ago, and this was the version
> that Wielage heard.
>
> So the altered version is an 80s break-in record. The unaltered original,
> which is what we usually talk about around here, is not a break-in record.
> So Marc, you really did think that you were hearing a break-in when
> listening to the Demento show, and I apologize for saying you were wrong.
> I did not know of the customized version.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
Ah, understood. I did record the "Russian Bandstand" version Demento
played last weekend, and I'd be glad to send you a copy if you'd like to
check it out. The annoying this (and the reason for my confusion) is that
as far as I know, at no time did the good doctor *mention* that this was a
special version he had created just for the show. Man...
He did something like this one other time: Demento played the obscure but
very much remembered 1969 #55 novelty song "Mah-Na-Mah-Na", but did it as
a sort-of medley with the execrable version performed by The Muppets in
the mid-1980s. At least in this case, he warned listeners what he was
gonna do. As silly as this song is, it's never been issued on a CD (to my
knowledge), and although I have a fairly well-worn 45 single copy, it
would've been nice to have gotten a cleaner copy off the radio -- without
The Muppets in it.
--MFW
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Marc Wielage
In article <326AE3...@philly.infi.net>, Regina Litman
<rsli...@philly.infi.net> wrote:
>
> I've never actually gotten around to making a break-in record, but I
have fantasized one
> recently. First, I hope no one from where I work is lurking, because
it is about
> people where I work.
>
> I work as a computer programmer in an insurance company. We have
several great users we
> deal with. I have fantasized a break-in record about my dealings with them.
Here's some Carol songs [including a few Carolines]:
Chuck Berry - "Carol"
Tommy Boyce - "I'll Remember Carol"
Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)"
Merle Haggard - "Carolyn"
Tommy Roe - "Carol"
Neil Sedaka - "Oh! Carol"
Brian Wilson - "Caroline, No"
Bobby Womack - "Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)"
As to Alice:
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart - "Alice Long (You're Still My Favorite Girlfriend)"
Cheech & Chong - "Earache My Eye Featuring Alice Bowie"
Arlo Guthrie - "Alice's Rock & Roll Restaurant"
Neil Sedaka - "Alice in Wonderland"
Smokie - "Living Next Door to Alice"
[my particular favorite would be the Sedaka track, which is obscure but a
very entertaining song]
And for Barbara:
The Beach Boys - "Barbara Ann"
Johnny Mathis - "Bye Bye Barbara"
The New Colony Six - "Barbara, I Love You"
The Regents - "Barbara Ann"
The Temptations - "Barbara"
Bobby Vee - "Please Don't Ask About Barbara"
The Who - "Barbara Ann"
For Bonnie (which is kind of a stretch):
The Ames Brothers - "My Bonnie Lassie"
The Beatles with Tony Sheridan - "My Bonnie (Lies Over the Ocean)"
Duane Eddy - "Bonnie Come Back"
Georgie Fame - "Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"
Mitch Miller & Chorus - "The Bonnie Blue Gal"
Bobby Rydell - "(I've Got) Bonnie"
Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra - "Bonnie Blue Gal"
And for Delaney:
Tom T. Hall - "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died"
But you got me on Cass.
vide...@ix.netcom.com
I remember Scopitone from an arcade in Times Square. Ever hear of the
Kessler Twins? I think their song was "Cuando Cuando". Sure would
like to see that again!
Norm Katuna
On 4/6/59 Billboard magazine reviewed Key 1061, Linc Jeffries------"Pitch
black", and on Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:40:35 GMT, on a totally different
subject, no...@cts.com (Norm Katuna), wrote:
::: Nikita the K was some guy named Ed Lubinski and as far as I know this was
::: his one claim to fame.
::: Warner Bros. 7005--- Nikita the K (and the friends of Ed Lubinski)---"Go
::: go radio Moscow"
My apologies. This is what I get for trying to read my record labels on a
Sunday morning at 5 am. The name should have been Ed Labunski. This time
I got it right and it's only 3:30 am just before work on Monday morning.
_________________________________
Norm Katuna
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Jimmy Rogers Chicago bound Chess 1574
Jimmy Rogers Walking by myself Chess 1643
Jimmy Rogers One kiss Chess 1659
Charles Board
In article <32749af1...@news3.cts.com>, no...@cts.com (Norm Katuna) writes:
|> ::: 6. Buchanan & Goodman On Trial
|>
|> I guess I'm killing this thread but, I need to know something about the CD.
|> There is a rare alternate take to the above song "On Trial". Most people
|> only know the version where a few seconds after the "Stranded in the
|> jungle" snip the say "Call your next witness and aren't you Skinny Dynamo?"
|> and he sings "Yes it's me I'm in love again". That's the common version.
|>
|> Well did you know that there is an alternate version, with just that one
|> little segment that is different. After the "Stranded in the jungle bit"
|> the you "Call the next witness" and then they say "where do you live"?
|> and then there is a little snippet that goes "Behind the green door".
|>
|> Anyone with the CD, can you listen to that "On trial" cut and tell me which
|> version is being used??--Skinny Dynamo or "where do you live--behind the
|> green door". Only one or the other will be there and it will be about in
|> the middle of the record.
It's the Skinny Dynamo version.....
Exeter124
there's a guy named gary scoppetonie in NYC who sells TONS of scoppetone
vidoes- insane stuff. occassionally he shows 'em on the big screen
locally. need info?
Toru Kanno
> I remember Scopitone from an arcade in Times Square. Ever hear of the
> Kessler Twins? I think their song was "Cuando Cuando". Sure would
> like to see that again!
>
Aren't they Kessler Sisters from Germany? I saw them on Ed Sullivan Show
which was rerun here in japan 2 yrs ago.
Collector
su...@st.rim.or.jp (Toru Kanno) wrote:
>In article <54eroj$p...@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com>, vide...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>> I remember Scopitone from an arcade in Times Square. Ever hear of the
>> Kessler Twins? I think their song was "Cuando Cuando". Sure would
>> like to see that again!
>>
>Aren't they Kessler Sisters from Germany? I saw them on Ed Sullivan Show
>which was rerun here in japan 2 yrs ago.
Yes they're German and I have stunning vintage stuff on Video by the
Kessler Twins.