Zappa did I’m the Slime, essentially attacking the whole institution of TV. It was great! He had their number over 40 years ago.
I’m The Slime - Frank Zappa (With lyrics / subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdtGo2Ib9oI
The Don Pardo involvement was genius.
I mentioned Elvis Costello above. He started one song for about 2 bars, stopped, and then ripped into Radio, Radio, which attacks commercial radio. “The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anesthetize the way that you can feel.” I’m sure CBS had commercial radio stations at the time.
Not sure about Milton Berle, will have to look into that.
Some dummies out there probably think FZ was referring to himself in “I’m The Slime” but he was just giving voice to the “slime”. Dummy up!
Wow…how did I never see that one? I guess it never re-ran back then. Zappa punked ‘em good!
Elvis Costello too, it appears. I didn’t see that one either. I had “Radio, Radio” on vinyl on one of his early albums.
Thanks for the information!