And it looks like the LP is worth a pretty penny these days.
Posted on 07/03/2011 9:43:17 AM PDT by Craftmore
When I was young,Maybe 6-8 years old.There were some songs on the radio put together as a story.One that I remember was an announcer interviewing the astronauts on thier way to the moon.The astronauts responses consisted of short segmants of popular songs.One eyed flying purple eater etc,,,.This was in the early to late 60s.Ive never heard them since and searching the internet has eluded me so far. Does anyone else remember these songs?I think several were made.Would love to add these to my music collection.
Yes, Buchanan and Goodman is the answer to your question. Buchanan got out of it after awhile, Dickie Goodman continued on making these types of records until his death. The early ones were The Flying Saucers, probably a Dickie Goodman site would list all of them for you.
Actually it goes....
Marzee Doats and kidzee Doats and littlelamzee Divy
Kiddledee Divy too
Wouldn’t you?
Good stuff!!
Buchanan & Goodman - The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxx8WZZD0Q
Don't leave you records in the red hot sun - John Hartford.
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian - John Prine
Jack's in the sack - John Hartford
Happened to be listening to that one so I had the link. The others are all on You Tube as well
Good Old Electric Washing machine - Hartford
Talk backwards - Steve Goodman and finally one that is a little racy - I think it's cute - In Spite of ourselves John Prine
Hartford, Prine and Goodman have a bunch, just google them
Oh Just thought of another one. What a waste of good corn liquor
This version is by a group. You have to advance to the 1 minute mark to get the song. The best version is by Mac Wiseman but that one is not on You Tube.
Thanks for the assist. Commencing new youtube search.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952h-AJ3Bcg
Charlie Daniels Uneasy Rider
I remember the one that spoofed Jaws. Twas quite amusing.
The particular recording I was thinking of was actually by a guy named Bryan MacGregor reciting Gordon Sinclair's soliloquy with a rousing rendition of "America, The Beautiful" as background music.
If anyone's interested, here's the link.....
Yessssss that was one of them!!!! thank you so much! looking for more now.
The interview of an astronaut was Bill Dana IIRC.
"The Purple People Eater" is a novelty song, written and performed by Sheb Wooley, that reached #1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958.
quote—The Ultimate Space Song: The Martian Hop by the Randells —end quote
“We have just discovered (some?) important news from space—
The Martians plan to throw a dance ——for all the human race...
mmeeeee meee bbaabba mmeeeee bbabba mmeee bbabbaa.... etc
eeeee-eeeee-eeee-The Martian Hop eeee-eeee-eee ee eee eee..”
Oh, this song brings back memories! It was one of the very first 45’s I ever bought!!
Thanks for the post-I needed a good laugh. You ROCK!!!!!!
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Thank You guys so much.Yes the buchanan goodman songs seem to be mostly the ones a remember as a kid.Brings back so many happy memories,,I knew freepers would have the answer.I definatly agree some freeper should try and make one for today ,,possibly about Obama.
Check out Spike Jones, too.
You’re talking about “The Americans” by the Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair.
“The Americans”
“The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French, and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous, and possibly the least-appreciated, people in all the earth.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Well who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that’s who.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there — I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it is the United States that hurries into help, Managua, Nicaragua, is one of the most recent examples.
So far this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy, all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans.
Now, I’d like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on now, you, let’s hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don’t they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a woman on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times, and, safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They’re right here on our streets in Toronto. Most of them, unless they’re breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.
When the Americans get out of this bind — as they will — who could blame them if they said “the hell with the rest of the world.” Let somebody else buy the bonds. Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won’t shake apart in earthquakes.” When the railways of France, and Germany, and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of ‘em are still broke.
I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don’t think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They’ll come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they’re entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians.
And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year’s disasters — with the year less than half-over — has taken it all. And nobody, but nobody, has helped.”
-Gordon Sinclair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_okAgAUGE&feature=related
BTTT with a knife toe tapper....
http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=E9ScNhCLzxo
Stay Safe...
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