[78-L] Investigator [was 1st Family]

[David Lennick]

Them, I never heard of. Interesting. Also interesting is that my two American 
pressings on Discuriosities 6834 say "Copyright 1955 Radio Rarities Inc." on 
the jacket and "Copyright 1954 Radio Radio Rarities Inc." on the labels, and my 
English pressing on Oriole MG 20006 shows the 1954 copyright date on the jacket 
and no date on the labels. US pressings have Columbia XTV matrix numbers but 
I've never seen a copy with actual Columbia matrices (only the numbers).

It was also issued on Broadside, from scratched discs. Terrible..I got rid of 
that copy years ago (never had it with a jacket so I don't know what that 
looked like).

dl

david.diehl at hensteeth.com wrote:
> Walter Colquitt and John Bubbers issued it in the States in December of 1954. It sold well despite false rumors being spread that proceeds were going to the Communist Party. Haven't played it in a long time but I don't think it holds up the way Freberg does.
> DJD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lennick [mailto:dlennick at sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2010 11:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] 1st Family
> Not using the exact audio, unless you count the documentary "Point of Order" as a comedy album. But McCarthy was satirized at the time..by Bob & Ray on the radio, by Stan Freberg ("Point of Order") on record, and skewered by blacklisted playwright Reuben Ship when he returned to Canada and wrote "The Investigator" for CBC Radio. John Drainie spent a few afternoons in a bar in Buffalo watching the hearings and getting McCarthy's drawl down pat. Ironically, when the play was "bootlegged" on LP in the States (bootlegged my ass, the aircheck was smuggled out by the show's producer), it was an underground hit but Drainie couldn't get any work in the States because nobody would admit to having listened to it or finding it amusing.Good night and good luck.dl
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