Dickie Goodman - Mr. Jaws and Other Fables

Dickie Goodman - Mr. Jaws and Other Fables

Released in 1975

Well here's that LP I promised yesterday. I was able to post it sooner than I expected. All 10 of these cuts are comedy bits or skits that are mostly fake news reports where the responses to interviews are snippets from hit songs back in the day (i.e. during when these bits were recorded). Fortunately, in keeping with the holiday/Christmas season, "Santa and the Satellite" happens to be on this LP.
I think the first sampling of music I've ever heard was in the "Flying Saucer" track played on Dr. Demento. Is this kind of recording as is on this record still being done today? I'm out of the loop on this and it's been about 13 years since I last listened to a Dr. Demento show because my tastes have evolved to the point where I can't listen to hack novelty music and stale comedy routines for more than thirty minutes.

I may not be back with a new post until next year, so merry holidays to all. Also, I like to wish for everyone to increase their wealth, gain exciting love lives, lose weight, be happier, exercise more, read good literature for 20 minutes a day, get whiter teeth, do some networking to make more friends and establish yourself with people much more important than you in the community, get a promotion by showing initiative and doing whatever it takes to increase the profit margin at work (or just simply kissing the butts of your bosses and management), and overall doing whatever is needed for self-improvement so that the new year of 2009 will be a year of joy, fulfillment and prosperity.


Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Mr. Jaws {2:04}

2. Energy Crisis {1:42}

3. Superfly Meets Shaft {2:30}

4. The Touchables {1:57}

5. The Touchables in Brooklyn {1:50}

Side 2

1. Flying Saucer, Part 1 {2:12}

2. Flying Saucer, Part 2 {1:45}

3. Santa and the Satellite, Part 1 {1:37}

4. Santa and the Satellite, Part 2 {1:21}

5. Flying Saucer the Second {2:10}

John & Ernest - Super Fly Meets Shaft 7"

John & Ernest - Super Fly Meets Shaft 7"

Dickie Goodman is one of the producers of this 7 inch single of which side A of this has been included on an album by Goodman which will be posted shortly.

This is one of those faux-newsreport comedy bits, but rather than having someone impersonate the person being interviewed, a snippet from a song is used in place of the interviewee where the lyrics are the answers to the questions. These types of records are neat (I'm looking forward to posting that Dickie Goodman LP already mentioned). Side A is the news report about the fictional movie characters, Superfly and Shaft, where snippets from soul and r&b hits from back in the early 1970s are used. Side B, not included on the Goodman LP, is a repeat of the echo of the snippet used at the end of side A.

Tracklisting:

1. Super Fly Meets Shaft [both sides combined on one file] {4:20}

Mirror Image - Disco Noel

Mirror Image - Disco Noel

You know what would be cool for the holiday, umm I mean Christmas season? How about a retro-style Christmas party to spice up what would otherwise probably be yet another lame ass Christmas party at the office or with your friends or family. Let's assume that you decide to make it a Christmas party as it was in the late 1970s because the 70s totally rocked or something like that. The 70s had the most memorable short-lived trends in the area of fashion so the host(s) and guest(s) of the party could dress up in 70s clothes mixing the outrageous colors, styles and designs with seasonal colors and accessories of course like a pin or something else with Santa, a snowman or a reindeer on it.

Now that it's been decided that those attending the party are dressing like they're back in the 70s, the next thing that's needed is the background music. Obviously, the music should be only Christmas music because Santa is the reason for the season. The problem is there is not anything in the CD (or record or tape or MP3 collection) that sounds dated from the 70s. You don't want to play Mannheim Steamroller. Not only is it from the wrong decade (80s), but yuck. The idea is to come up with a livelier and more memorable Christmas party. So what the heck are we going to play at this 70s theme Christmas party? Oh, the dilemma.

Lucky for you, I have the solution to your problem. I have this rekkid here by some group called Mirror Image. It is a collection of disco versions of everyone's favorite traditional Christmas carols. Now you can do Saturday Night Fever John Travolta moves to such tunes as "Jingle Bells", "Winter Wonderland", "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" and more. I'm sure this is what the DJs were rocking at the Studio 54 Christmas party back in the day so your party will absolutely be the place to be with the sweet ass disco music.

Uh oh, I just saw that this LP is only a half hour long. So, I either do highly recommend making the party short (this would apply to office parties as I'm sure the management would like to see everyone getting back to doing their part to increase productivity and the company's profit margin) or having a lot of alcohol available (this is for grown up parties outside of the office only (unless you work for a really cool and lax company) and I know that only grown ups would be willing to have retro theme Christmas parties anyway while the kids (both cool and dorky) think that such concepts are lame). Quite a bit of alcohol will most likely be consumed when this LP ends so playing it over again shouldn't really be a problem as no one will really notice that the same songs are being played over again. I think that the same songs are repeated at Christmas parties anyway and people usually become drunk out of their minds.

I do hope you take me up on my suggestion. I know you'll thank me later when that Christmas party that you reluctantly either attend or throw turns out to be the most unforgettable ever.

Merry Christmas!

Seasons Greetings!

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Sleigh Ride {2:13}

2. Jingle Bells {3:10}

3. Jingle Bell Rock {3:20}

4. Santa Claus is Comin' to Town {3:08}

5. Joy to the World {3:02}

Side 2

1. Little Drummer Boy {4:04}

2. Winter Wonderland {3:33}

3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer {3:34}

4. Silver Bells {3:43}