chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted December 12, 2008 Report Posted December 12, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKEZ8D_F6UA# So the Chiffons are groovin on some phil spector-ish 45, they innurupt to announce President John F. Kennedy was shot.....THEN GO BACK TO THE END TAG OF THE CHIFFONS SONG. Later they do a promo for Johnny Thunder-Cakes or someone like that b4 they cut back to more covereage....i think im gonna be sick, blech Quote
JSngry Posted December 12, 2008 Report Posted December 12, 2008 No dude, they interrupted to announce that shots had been fired, not that Kennedy had been shot. Big difference. KLIF was the Top 40 station in town then, a Gordon McLendon station, and no slouch when it came to "instant coverage". What you're hearing here is the confusion of the event as it happened. Only a handful of people knew right of the bat that Kennedy had been shot. Everything else was rumor and speculation, until the official announcement was made, after which... Quote
Christiern Posted December 12, 2008 Report Posted December 12, 2008 JSngry: KLIF was the Top 40 station in town then, a Gordon McLendon station, and no slouch when it came to "instant coverage". What you're hearing here is the confusion of the event as it happened. Only a handful of people knew right of the bat that Kennedy had been shot. Everything else was rumor and speculation, until the official announcement was made, after which... ...I got out of sickbed and melted by Vaughn Meader EP, shaping it into a... Quote
JSngry Posted December 12, 2008 Report Posted December 12, 2008 ...tin cup to give to Meader the next time you saw him? Quote
Alexander Posted December 13, 2008 Report Posted December 13, 2008 (edited) JSngry: KLIF was the Top 40 station in town then, a Gordon McLendon station, and no slouch when it came to "instant coverage". What you're hearing here is the confusion of the event as it happened. Only a handful of people knew right of the bat that Kennedy had been shot. Everything else was rumor and speculation, until the official announcement was made, after which... ...I got out of sickbed and melted by Vaughn Meader EP, shaping it into a... Man, that must have been a rough day to be Vaughn Meader... "Aw, fuck! I'm unemployed!" Edited December 13, 2008 by Alexander Quote
JSngry Posted December 13, 2008 Report Posted December 13, 2008 (edited) Meader tried to come back as Jesus http://eil.com/shop/artistlist.asp?artistname=Vaughn-Meader A damn good effort, imo, but Jesus proved to be an even tougher act to follow than JFK. Them's the breaks. Edited December 13, 2008 by JSngry Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted December 14, 2008 Report Posted December 14, 2008 A damn good effort, imo, but Jesus proved to be an even tougher act to follow than JFK. Them's the breaks. Didn't he know Jesus was already dead? What a maroon! Quote
JSngry Posted December 14, 2008 Report Posted December 14, 2008 A damn good effort, imo, but Jesus proved to be an even tougher act to follow than JFK. Them's the breaks. Didn't he know Jesus was already dead? What a maroon! Hey, the record ends in him being crucified again. Not much of a surprise ending there... Quote
Dave James Posted December 14, 2008 Report Posted December 14, 2008 (edited) Well you know what they say, there's nothing quite as funny as a crucifixion. Real laugh a minute stuff. Meader must've already been well around the bend when he made this. Not that I don't feel sorry for the guy. The Kennedy stuff he did was inspired and it certainly looked like he could spend his career lampooning the President and his family. This would have been like Bill Dana trying to keep his Jose Jimenez astronaut character going after the Challenger disaster. Up over an out. Edited December 14, 2008 by Dave James Quote
JSngry Posted December 14, 2008 Report Posted December 14, 2008 The Jesus album is actually pretty astute and funny. It was made in the late-60s/early 70s, when JC Superstar/Godspell/Joseph Technicolor/etc and all the "God Rock" was big. Jesus comes back, is of course ignored and ostracized until some show biz people figure they can market him as the ultimate "God Pop" experience. Well, of course he's a huge hit at first, but then he goes and spoils it by talking about everybody giving up their wealth and all that, and then, well, you know how show biz can be. Meader sure did... The writing is pretty spiky in places, and the acting is first-rate. Don't know if I'd call it a "lost masterpiece" necessarily, but I've heard/read it dismissed as "wacko" more than once just because of the subject matter, when in fact it's anything but. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted December 14, 2008 Report Posted December 14, 2008 Well you know what they say, there's nothing quite as funny as a crucifixion. Real laugh a minute stuff. Well... Quote
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