# Who remembers Vaughn Meader's "The First Family" album? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187 "2010-03-12T01:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/1 "2010-03-12T01:12:08Z")
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!\* ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/2 "2010-03-12T02:00:38Z")
[I do.](http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2010/01/vaughn-meader-comedy.html) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/3 "2010-03-12T02:26:18Z")
…the, ah, rubber schwan is mine! ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/4 "2010-03-12T02:43:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/5 "2010-03-12T03:00:43Z")
I do. My folks had it, along with a lot of other comedy albums and I’d listen as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/6 "2010-03-12T03:04:11Z")
I remember it. ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/7 "2010-03-12T03:06:23Z")
Reporter: “When are we sending a man to the moon?” JFK: “Whenever Senator Goldwater wants to go!” ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/8 "2010-03-12T03:43:58Z")
I just barely remember it. I remember jokes mocking Kennedy’s accent. I was in 5th grade when JFK was shot ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/9 "2010-03-12T03:53:04Z")
Really before my time, although I did buy it eventually. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/10 "2010-03-12T03:55:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![banjoDavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@banjoDavid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjoDavid)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/11 "2010-03-12T04:12:30Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/12 "2010-03-12T04:56:40Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/13 "2010-03-12T05:13:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/14 "2010-03-12T05:20:22Z")
Here’s a YouTube clip of Mr. Meader. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0jMe-3_Dl0) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/15 "2010-03-12T05:28:22Z")
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?” ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/16 "2010-03-12T05:36:55Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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. > [@](#): > > According to several sources, avant-garde comedian Lenny Bruce appeared at a New York nightclub the day of Kennedy’s assassination. As if testing his audience’s readiness to find something funny so soon after tragedy, Bruce was silent for several moments before announcing, “Vaughn Meader is screwed!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/17 "2010-03-12T08:16:07Z")
I want a cheekon sandwich weeth a live cheekon. ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/18 "2010-03-12T09:38:04Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Khendrask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@Khendrask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khendrask)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/19 "2010-03-12T13:08:13Z")
“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”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button-Down_Mind_of_Bob_Newhart). I bet if I find one, I’ll find the other. Then I just need a turntable… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187/20 "2010-03-12T13:30:55Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-vaughn-meaders-the-first-family-album/532187.md?page=2)