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Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Monday, 9 December 2013
Friday, 17 May 2013
The Watergate scandal inspired "the King of Novelty", Dickie Goodman, to record one of his "break-in" records, "Watergrate". With a Mad Magazine sense of humor, Goodman had been blending snippets of hit songs that seem to be answering questions from a reporter since 1959's "Flying Saucer". "Watergrate" hit #42. In 1975 Goodman's "Mr Jaws" would hit #4. You could argue these were among the first records to "sample" other artists.
Earlier in the year, Goodman wrote and produced "Superfly Meets Shaft", a blaxploitation-inspired novelty tune that hit the Top 40 in May of 1973.
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