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Topic: "The Incredible Vince" Sanchez's "How Can You Mend A Broken Car?" [1981]

 
Estonius   Offline  -  Member  -  12-09-25 05:36 PM  -  4 days ago
"How Can You Mend A Broken Car?" ("How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?") ~ "The Incredible Vince" Sanchez (Bee Gees) [1981]:
 
Through my semi-recent DMDB.org/ (Demented Music Database) search for "The Incredible Vince" Sanchez songs, I found that his "How Can You Mend A Broken Car?" was only played twice on "The Dr. Demento Show", and both of those airings were live on KMET in 1981, for which there were no complete tapes of those shows in the "Demento Archives".
 
Having never heard the song and just based on the song title itself, I assumed it was most likely a song parody of Bee Gees' "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?" about car repair.
 
Since there were no complete tapes of those 2 shows, they were never digitized, and, per my email communications with Jeff Morris (Dr. Demento’s Official Archivist AND Historian), neither of those incomplete tapes of those 2 incomplete shows even included this particular song either.
 
Jeff Morris was kind enough and skilled enough to track down the actual original song tape that "The Incredible Vince" Sanchez submitted to Dr. Demento in 1981 for me.
 
He then went through the trouble of digitizing that individual song for me too.
 
Jeff Morris went above and beyond to help me on this, and I can't say how much I appreciate it. =)
 
"The Incredible Vince" Sanchez's song parodies were played regularly on "The Dr. Demento Show" in the late 1970's and in the early 1980's, including his songs "King Tut Strut" (Rick Dees And His Cast of Idiots' "Disco Duck"), "Year Of The Fat" (Al Stewart's "Year Of The Cat"), and "Jimmy Durante Nose" (Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes").

He was also an early collaborator (co-writer, vocalist, and instrumentalist) of "Weird Al" Yankovic in the late 1970's and in the early 1980's.

"Weird Al" Yankovic and he (along with his brother, bass guitarist "Frank from the Bank" Sanchez) were in the band "The Hollywood Offramp" in the late 1970's with the songs "Signal Hill Surfin' Song" (Elton John’s "Your Sister Can’t Twist, But She Can Rock 'n Roll"), "Number One With A Bullet", and "American Slob".
 
In 2009, in honor of (inter)national "Talk Like Bob Dylan Day" (celebrated every May 24th), "The Incredible Vince" Sanchez wrote and recorded "Talking Like Bob (Dylan)", and he even made a Dylanesque music video for it:
 
"The Incredible Vince" Sanchez's YouTube Channel:

 

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