The various JFK threads made me think of this.
Public Service Announcement
*Go to the polls and vote.
Vote for the Kennedy of your choice, BUT VOTE!*
…the, ah, rubber schwan is mine!
I do as well, and have the album.
“Yes, the baby in the back, baby John.”
“Gaga, goo bebee bah!”
“Yes, well, this is what I have to say to that. Diddy wobby woo, hoddy doo!”
One of my favorite bits was the fill up.
“Yes sir?”
“Fill it up please.”
“Just this car?”
“No, all 70 of them, and the motorcycles too.”
Yes sir!"
“By the way, do you give green stamps?”
“No sir, we don’t.”
“Forget it!”
“Election time is near. Go to the polls and vote. Vote for the Kennedy of your choice, but vote!”
Classic stuff.
I do. My folks had it, along with a lot of other comedy albums and I’d listen as a kid.
I remember it.
Reporter: “When are we sending a man to the moon?”
JFK: “Whenever Senator Goldwater wants to go!”
I just barely remember it. I remember jokes mocking Kennedy’s accent.
I was in 5th grade when JFK was shot
Really before my time, although I did buy it eventually.
I have it. Found it at a second hand store. Nice to hear political satire taking the form of gentle ribbing, rather than the out-and-out mockery and ridicule of recent years.
I have 2 mono LP copies. I find many copies in used stores and Salvation Army in Chicago, but never a stereo pressing. I have always wanted to hear the stereo mix
Reporter “What are you going to do about medical care for the aged”?
Meader “Try to stay young”.
Footsteps walking in the hall and several guards say “Wou can’t go…oh wait, you can” Finally a door opens and Meader says “What can I do for you?”
Small boy’s voice “Can Caroline come out and play?”
Meader “No, she’s busy”
Boy “Aw too bad. What’s Lyndon doing”
Various foreign leaders meet with Meader in a restuarant.
Konrad Adenaur “You have one sandwich in America I love. I want a Western sandwich”
Nikita Khruschev “If Adenaur is having a Western sandwich, then I want an Eastern sandwich”
Meader “I’m afraid there is no Eastern sandwich”
Krushchgev “Then I want the eastern portion of his western sandwich”
Meader “I’m sure, I’m sure we can negotiate about that”
Meader called 11/22/1963 “the day I died”. Yet he lives on through an LP I inherited from an old older friend who had an older sister. Or may, anyway, should I ever come to own another turntable.
Here’s a YouTube clip of Mr. Meader.
Wasn’t it Lenny Bruce who said, during one of his shows a couple days after Kennedy died, “Boy, didn’t Vaughn Meader get fucked?”
From the Wiki article on Vaughn Meader.
I want a cheekon sandwich weeth a live cheekon.
That was Fidel, right?
I would dig out my copy of the album if I had a working turntable.
“It’s My Ball!”
I loved that album… I wonder if I still have the LP around somewhere.
Vaughn Meader, wow… it’s been a while. Another favorite of mine from that time was “The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart”.
I bet if I find one, I’ll find the other. Then I just need a turntable…
Just popped in to say “count me in as remembering” but I can’t quote anything specific from it.
I remember it mostly because I was working at a record shop in those days and it was a big seller. I must have heard it at least 10 times, but never owned a copy.
There’s just a vague memory of the details of it and they’ve merged with comedy albums of the era by Jonathan Winters, Dave Gardner, Nichols and May, Shelley Berman, Bob Newhart and even Stan Freberg’s things that go back to the 50’s. Andy Griffith’s “What it was was football” also.
Ray Stevens’s novelty songs burned deeper into my memory than most of those comedy things because there was music to help them stick.