[78-L] Old" Flying Sauce"r fan heard from, WAS Copyright Criminals on PBS

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 07:33:46 PST 2010


Yes, 'Flying saucer' was on 78 (Pemberton ducks just in time to avoid
barrage of Ken Griffin 78s hurled at him from the other 78-L-ers)....

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Bob Rice <bobrice at snet.net> wrote:

>  Ah guyz? "Flying Saucer was SO bad it was GOOD!? Like the OLD Godzilla
> movies? The Toho Studio offerings, in the 50's.NOT the comedy knockoff of a
> few years ago. Anyhow, Buchanan and Goodman, as I remember as a kid, DID
> get
> in hot water with the copy right folks. Their response was "Buchanan and
> Goodman on Trial"The punchline was;" What is your complaint against
> Buchanan
> and Goodman?"" They wouldn't give me a ride in their flying saucer!"Of
> course as a kid we wore the records out, made the same sorta stuff with my
> growing Victrola record collection with a cheezy, 20 dollar rim drive tape
> recorder, but I don't think Billy Murray cared<g>?But, as the genre "Wore
> out" the following Band G stuff wasn't as good, Santa and the Satallite "
> came out about that era, too?"Martian Melody" was on the flip side of one
> of
> those records? B and G on trial?It said play at 33 1/3rd or 45 rpm,
> settling
> the speed question?Along with "Transfusion", and "Ape Call" by "Nervus
> Norvus, were the fun records WE grew up with? Oh did we grow up?Thought it
> was pretty creative back in the uptight 50's? My Dad said;" That's AWFUL!
> They oughta SUE their ears off!" when he was exposed to Flyin' Saucer.No
> cents of humor!Haven't ya any BETTER records?" His take.He didn't think
> much
> of Elvis, ether.
>
>  When ya think about it, MOVIE clips and sound bites are used nowadaze for
> fun spoofs, I GUESS the copyright folks aren't too concerned at what you
> "borrow" for yur skits? You Toobe for example?What's that one, movie, at
> Hitler's meeting with the inane subtitles in English? Scene it in several
> clips!In that it makes sheeple smile, and like B and G, are forgotten.
> Although it was tragic Dicky Goodman's demise, he brought smiles to us kids
> back in our deformative years? WHAT ever happened to the "Buchanan" in
> Buchanan and Goodman, anyhow? Was more than a forgotten US President?I
> remember a PBS thing about Dicky Goodman, by his kid, several years ago.
>
>   Bob, old B. and G. fan. I DON'T think F.C. was on 78?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net>
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> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 10:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Copyright Criminals on PBS
>
>
> > At 03:59 PM 1/22/2010, you wrote:
> >
> >>I didn't even think "The Flying Saucer" was funny. Never did. It was
> >>crudely done and pretty stupid, even by 1956 standards. I don't own
> >>a copy and don't want to.
> >>
> >>Cary Ginell
> >
> > The only Goodman record I've heard was On Campus & it was ok.......
> >
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