In 1972 our local DJ was playing Martin Mull’s “The Theme From Belligerence” by “The Dueling Tubas”.
But nothing was like his “Fernwood 2-Nite” with Barth Gimble & Jerry Hubbard, backed by Happy Kine & the Mirth Makers, with local guest crooner Tony Rolletti.
I remember those days of ‘Fernwood’, ‘Mary Hartman Mary Hartman’, and then ‘Soap’. The first Mull song I remember actually getting airplay was, ‘Dancing In The Nude’. It took awhile but I remember thinking it was about time. I had been playing Mull’s first album for my friends since it came out in 1972. (I had read a positive review in Penn State’s Daily Collegian which compared the music to high quality department store music. I figured, “Well, I have to go get that!”)