REPOST Request: This one for my old FOGHAT buddy, SD Joe! See above bonus comedy man!!!
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Long live Rozz Williams in book and song
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For Gary Floyd [R.I.P]
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This one for you ClassicMusic20. I know you want trendy Yacht Rock for your radio but calling soft Christian rock by that genre just to get me to buy something won't work and never putting a penny of your own money for anything while using pressure buy to make me buy the last one on Discogs is lame for lame music my Goodwill steals are Sanctified.as R.L. Burnside used to say live.
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2 comments:
Blogger smmaddog said...
Thanks. I dug this out of my parents record collection when I was a kid and it was hilarious.
October 18, 2019 at 4:55 PM
JUNE 8, 2020 AT 2:32 PM
Chi-Town said...
Thank you very much ! Great album.
Chi-Town
JUNE 8, 2020 AT 3:05 PM
NOVEMBER 17, 2020 AT 1:34 PM
EricC said...
I hang out with a lot of parody musicians, I even got played on Dr Demento a couple of times. Allan is one of those gods of comedy music. There are few parodyists who can match him still. Thank you for these, my LPs are way too beat up to rip.
NOVEMBER 18, 2020 AT 1:10 PM
S D Joe said...
If you could possibly re-up this one....? Allan's such a lost cultural artifact I never expected to find him - not even here!
APRIL 7, 2021 AT 1:19 PM
Viacomclosedmedown - I hope you don't mind if I just call you "Via" ...this is why you're the best, my friend. I had zero idea that you'd even seen my little sidebar note, and here you wheel out this spectacular meal with all the trimmings.
Thank you, Via. Now here's a few Allan Sherman fun-factoids to make your efforts today worthwhile. Not everybody remembers Allan Sherman today but he was the prototypical Overnight Sensation, who came out of nowhere with MY SON THE FOLKSINGER which at the time was the fastest selling record album in US history - a huge hit that launched him on a brief but prolific career, cutting nearly a dozen albums in a five-year span, appearances everywhere, merchandising deals - he even guest hosted THE TONIGHT SHOW and provided the voice for THE CAT IN THE HAT for the classic Dr Seuss cartoon! (Of course, The Cat had not been cancelled yet.) Naturally his success went to his head, leading him to wreck his once-happy marriage with booze, drugs & tawdry affairs, which sadly led this already portly fellow to even further weight gain and serious illness. His wife left him and took his kids, his big 'comeback' project (he was already a has-been by 1969) turned out to be the biggest flop of his career - he kept trying, but the bitch goddess known as Success would forevermore elude him until his tragic death in 1973, just ten days shy of his 50th birthday. It might be said that his brush with superstardom was too much for him to handle, and his Great Shining Showbiz Moment led directly to his rapid decline and God only knows how much tsuris..
But when you listen to these early albums, you suddenly realize that all the heartache was worth it if meant the world could enjoy Sherman's hilarious gift, if only briefly. Great comedy albums and wonderful timepieces of pre-Beatles American life in the 1960s. And how exactly did Allan Sherman score the fastest-selling debut album of all time, you ask? Because he got a thumbs up from America's most charismatic and almost-magical President, John F Kennedy, who was fond of Sherman's song parody "Sarah Jackman" and would regularly sing a few bars for friends and staffers. When the White House reporters asked him where he'd heard that funny song, he told them - and Allan Sherman became a star overnight. Hey, in those days a plug from the President....from THAT President....was worth its weight in gold. (Ask Vaughan Meader - he'll tell you.)
Nor was he the only relative unknown lifted up to star status by the JFK seal of approval. When asked while on the Presidential campaign trail how he preferred to relax during the campaign's down time, Kennedy revealed to reporters he was a major enthusiast of an up-and-coming English writer who was, at the time, still unknown in America....a fellow by name of Ian Fleming. Following that boost, Fleming not only found himself for the first time on the US best seller lists (where he would remain until his death), but the President's praise prompted a couple of Brit producers with international ambitions named Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli to snap up the film rights to all of the Bond books, and the rest is film history.
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