[78-L] Shortest 78

[King Daevid MacKenzie]

rew1014 at yahoo.com sez:
> "The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan" was genuine. Released by the Stiff label, it was an LP that played for thirty-five minutes or so and contained absolutely nothing. It reportedly sold around 30,000 copies.> > Friend of mine told me it came in very handy once when he needed "LP noise" to overdub for a theater project.
 
...I used to have a copy of something called THE WIT AND WISDOM OF SPIRO T. AGNEW, which was also two sides of blank grooves. (Not to be confused with SPIRO T. AGNEW SPEAKS OUT, an actual RCA Victor release compiling clips of the corrupt veep's 1969-71 speeches which I used in one of my "Echoes of a Century" programs while at Wisconsin Public Radio's La Crosse outfit.) I suspect Stiff merely copied the Agnew concept for the Reagan LP...
 
...come to think of it, Tom Paxton once recorded a live album containing a song titled "The Ballad of Spiro Agnew," its complete lyrics being "I sing of Spiro Agnew and all the things he's done" -- after which Paxton simply shut his mouth and stopped playing, causing a Jack Benny-like pregnant pause into audience laughter. Maybe Paxton deserves credit for the basic idea...
 
 
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