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

[Royal Pemberton]

I know what you mean.  The originals had a sort of naive 50s charm to them,
but the later stuff came off as a one-joke phenomenon that didn't wear well
at all.  Like a 1956 joke told in 1974.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:44 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> All the original Saucers were on 78, as were the parodies by Steve Allen
> with
> Alan Freed, Lee Tully, Dave Barry (which used real musicians, not records),
> and
> one odd one that actually stole lines and disc samples directly from the
> original Flying Saucer. Ya hadda be there. I thought the later ones like
> Mr.
> Jaws were pathetic.
>
> dl
>
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
> > 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>
> >> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >> 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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