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| Due to the success of the record, The Penguins, who had changed labels, re-recorded "Earth Angel" and released it again. (peterpuck9) |
| Thus, B&G kept making these sketches, since burlesques (and parodies, satire, etc.) are protected by The U.S. Constitution. (sav-man) |
| The judge also ruled that B&G's work would NOT hurt the sales of the artists' records they used (it may have even helped some)! (sav-man) |
| However, the judge ruled that B&G's work was a "burlesque" (thus, a new work of their own). (sav-man) |
| B&G were sued by over thirty record companies for the use of their (the companies') signed artists' material on this sketch! (sav-man) |
| Reached #3 on the Billboard charts in August 1956. (sav-man) |
| The original Novelty/Break-in record, involving questions from B&G, and answers from snatches of Rock/Pop/R&B songs. (sav-man) |
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| Song Lyrics: |
Buchanan: We interrupt this record to bring you a special bulletin. The reports of a flying saucer hovering over the city have been confirmed. The flying saucers are real!
Radio: Too real, when I feel, what my heart can't conceal... (from the Platters' "The Great Pretender")
Buchanan: That was the Clatters' recording, "Too Real!"
And that set the pattern. Goodman would interview eyewitnesses about the spaceship, whose responses were the lyrics of popular songs.
Goodman: This is John Cameron Cameron downtown. Pardon me madam, would you tell our audience what would you do if the saucer were to land?
Witness: Duck back in the alley (from Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally")
Goodman: Thank you. And now the thin gentleman there.
Witness: What I'm gonna do ... is hard to tell (from Fats Domino's "Poor Me")
Goodman: And the gentleman with the guitar, what would you do sir?
Witness: Just take a walk down Lonely Street (from Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel")
The record continues. While the flying saucer landed on Earth, Buchanan and Goodman greeted its arrival with more splices, in-jokes and primitive technical wizardry.
Goodman: This is John Cameron Cameron on the spot. And now I believe we're about to hear the words of the first spaceman ever to land on earth.
Martian: "A WOP BOP A LOO MOP A LOP BAM BOOM" (from Little Richard's "Tutti-Frutti")
Goodman: The impact of seeing the first spaceman has this reporter reeling!
Radio: Here I go reeling, ohh-oh (skip) ohh-oh (skip) ohh-oh (from the Platters' "The Magic Touch")
Buchanan: That was the Clatters again, with their big one, "Uh-Oh!"
Goodman: Gathered around me are several of the spacemen. Tell us - have you come to conquer the world?
Martian: esnefed fo yraterces
Goodman: And now would you repeat that in English?
Martian: Don't want the world to have and hold... (from Don Cherry's "Band of Gold")
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| Played on 48 shows: |
 | 07-29-23, #AOTA-230729 |  | 03-06-05, #05-10 |
| 07-17-21, #AOTA-210717 | | 09-15-03, #ISGD-03-34 |
| 05-21-21, #WOTR_226 | | 07-28-03, #XM-10 |
| 09-05-20, #KMCC-15-01 | | 06-30-03, #ISGD-03-25 |
| 01-04-17, #ISGD-17-01 | | 11-10-02, #02-45 |
| 04-09-16, #AOTA-160409 | | 01-27-02, #02-04 |
| 09-25-15, #MMDT20_15-39 | | 01-17-99, #99-03 |
| 08-29-15, #ISGD-15-36 | | 09-22-96, #96-38 |
| 03-22-15, #BWR-15-03-22 | | 03-31-96, #96-13 |
| 11-15-14, #14-46 | | 09-10-95, #95-37 |
| 08-01-13, #ISGD-13-31 | | 11-28-93, #93-48 |
| 04-25-13, #ISGD-13-17 | | 09-27-92, #92-39 |
| 07-07-12, #12-27 | | 06-02-91, #91-22 |
| 09-10-11, #AOTA-110910 | | 11-18-90, #90-46 |
| 01-07-11, #ROTP_333 | | 12-10-89, #89-50 |
| 05-16-10, #10-20 | | 07-26-87, #87-30 |
| 01-31-10, #10-05 | | 11-23-86, #KMET-86-47 |
| 03-08-09, #09-10 | | 11-23-86, #86-47 |
| 08-23-08, #MMCZ_0096 | | 11-24-85, #85-47 |
| 03-11-07, #07-10 | | 12-04-83, #83-49 |
| 09-03-06, #06-36 | | 06-21-81, #81-25 |
| 02-21-06, #MMS-18 | | 09-21-80, #80-38 |
| 09-25-05, #05-39 | | 11-05-78, #78-38 |
| 04-03-05, #XM-97 | | 03-26-78, #78-5 |
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