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on a lighter note....

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DaBear

Does anybody remember when WFIL, back in the day, ohh say '70, '71, played these, I guess they were political satire songs, where the announcer would say, "Mr. President what do you think of the War in Vietnam"....and a clip of Edwin Starr's "War", would come on and it was "War, Huh, What is it good for?, Absoulutely nothing!. Then the announcer would come on and ask another question, and so on and so on. I thought their were quite a few songs like this.
Now, did they survive the acetate? (tape), and does anybody know of any copies of them anywhere like maybe youtube? Thanks!!! Or am I losing my mind? I emailed the curator at WFIL, about three years ago and he had no clue what I was talking about!!
 
I can't debate about the condition of your mind - but you are CORRECT in relation to the songs you mentioned. There were a few around - like "Convention 72" and so on. The announcer would ask the question and the "answer" would be a "hook" from one of the songs from the era. George Michael did one that I recall, and there were a few others.

I am not sure who would have copies. Jerry Donahue, the legendary production director at WFIL passed away a few years ago, so that resource is not available. If Jerry were still around he probably would have had them archived.

Did you try the guy that runs famous56.com?

Also, Kevin Fenessey has a remarkable collection of "stuff". You may want to contact him. I don't have his email address available but other contributors on this board could probably help!

Good luck!

Charlie
 
EDIT: others beat me to it while I was typing, but here's some info:

Probably not what you're looking for (if you're talking about in-house parodies by WFIL), but...

Dickie Goodman was one of the main "parody song" artists of the 50's-70's. He was probably the 1st to do "break-ins" (or drop-ins or samples) in music recordings. There were other song parody artists as well during that time. There were a couple of song parodies out in the 80's...I think a Michael Jackson one, for example, but I can't remember them right now.

Link to Dickie Goodman's Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickie_Goodman

and a history of Goodman's & others novelty songs: http://www.chuckthewriter.com/goodman.html
 
Thanks Charlie. My mind has just been stirred up by this discussion...didn;t FUL do one related to the Flyers during the Stanley Cup years?
 
WFIL did "Cakewalk To The Cup," which was "narrated" by Banana Joe Montione. I think he used the name Gene Earl Hart, and it was either on WFIL Records or Lost-Nite Records.
 
If I recall correctly, Kevin Fennessy is working at WMCA. So possibly you could reach him via WMCA.
 
nitetalker said:
This genre is known as "flying saucer records".
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Incidentally, that was going to be Richard Heene's record label when he landed that recording artist deal once nobody would be able to confirm the Falcon "doing it for the show" thing was a hoax... ;)
 
I have the George Michael Flyers' "break in" record on a 45, in a friend's garage in Florida. But I DO have on hand, an almost hour long tape of carted drops from WFIL, which I recorded in 1982. I was on my way from San Antonio to take the PD job at WHAM in Rochester, when I stopped by WFIL to visit my brother Dick. I grabbed a blank reel of tape, and started dubbing them all off...and have been carrying them around ever since. They've since been transferred onto PCM WAV format on a detachable hard drive.
 
Thanks Guys!!
Thanks to Charlies post I was able to find more on Youtube:

Buchanan & Goodman - The Flying Saucer (Parts 1
and
Convention '72
and
Energy crisis '74 (Mr. President)

although:
I believe convention '72 is another one I was thinking of...
'gotta find a woman...gotta find a woman...gotta find a woman...!!!
 
GlennSummers said:
WFIL did "Cakewalk To The Cup," which was "narrated" by Banana Joe Montione. I think he used the name Gene Earl Hart, and it was either on WFIL Records or Lost-Nite Records.
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on a related subject - not going too far off of topic - how about the " song " "penalty box " by dave shultz ???
 
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