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

[David Lennick]

Marty on the Planet
Mars by Marty on Novelty 101

That's the one!! Not worth $14.99 unless you're a masochist..it really does rip 
off entire sections from the original Flying Saucer.

dl

agp wrote:
> At 15:48 23/01/2010, RP wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Of all the later ones, I think the best of the lot was Batman and his 
> Grandmother on Red Bird.
> 
> A contemporary copy-cat to The Flying Saucer was Marty on the Planet 
> Mars by Marty on Novelty 101. There is a copy of this up on oBoo for 
> buy it now at -- wait for it --- $14.99! I have to laugh at the description:
> 
> quote-  Suitable for jukebox or automatic changers (Has lead-in 
> grooves)  -- unquote
> 
> Okay --- whatever. Should have maybe also said "suitable for finding 
> pile of other records (has label)"
> 
> Be that as it may -- I have to wonder how many jukeboxes got 
> unplugged when someone picked Flying Saucer!
> 
> T
> 
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