Gordon Lightfoot Elvis Bobby Darin Fats Domino
I have no idea when this is from, but I was looking for something unrelated and ran across the Gordon Lightfoot skit and thought it was pretty funny. You can’t deny, it was pretty spot on (and creative). I assume Burton must have had some sort of late night skit show.
There’s a few more of you go through sidebar on the youtube sight.
Also…
Burton Cummings has, what’s probably good advice for Justin Beiber and most other pop stars that can’t define themselves as singer/songwriters.
SCTV did a skit where there was a concert, and they riffed the “Who’s on first” with bands such as the Who, the Guess Who, Yes, and probably others. Can’t find it on youtube however.
As a group The Credibility Gap are forgotten today, although their members’ names are mostly familiar (Harry Shearer, David Lander, Michael McKean). At the time, though, they were part of the Golden Age of comedy albums (not stand-up, but skit-based comedy) along with the Ace Trucking Company, the Committee, the Conception Corporation, Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater, and the transcendental geniuses who comprised the Firesign Theatre.
They (mostly) emerged from the same improv comedy scene as longer lasting troupes like The Second City, but they got a national audience with the records that Second City never had, even when they did touring companies. You can see their influence all over later comedy and about a million of their routines are classics, with hardly anybody knowing where they came from.
