Steve Allen – Gravy Waltz（1963）
with Don Trenner and his Orchestra
This was co-written with Steve by well-known jazz bassist Ray Brown and was conducted by Donn Trenner, who also led the studio orchestra on Allen’s current late-night ABC-TV show.
スティーヴ・アレンが『ビー・バップ・ア・ルーラ』の歌詞をさも高尚なもののように（あるいは往年のテッド・ルイスの如く）勿体つけて朗読し、爆笑を取るという、ロック史では有名なエピソードがある。
その歴史的映像がこれ（ ↓ ）
Be-Bop-A-Lula: DJ Steve Allen presents the lyrics（1957/09）
当時NBCで放送されていたテレビバラエティー『スティーブ・アレン・ショー』より。
『ビー・バップ・ア・ルーラ』の歌詞を高尚な詩のように読み上げて茶化した有名なパフォーマンス。
この話、むかしカール・ベンツ著『ロックへの視点』（１９７３年第２刷）で読んだ気がして、書棚から引っ張り出しパラパラと見返したが、その記述が見つからぬ。
Ｒ＆Ｂもロックンロールも元からマジメな音楽ではないから、それをいくら茶化してもさしたるダメージは与えられないのだが、それでも当初より茶化しまくっていたのはあのスタン・フリバーグだった。
Stan Freberg – Green Chri$tma$（1958/11）
Stan Freberg – Banana Boat（Day-O）（1957）
with Billy May’s Music, interruptions by Peter Leeds
Chart Peaks: Billboard 25, Cash Box 30
Stan Freberg with Billy May’s Music – Wun’erful, Wun’erful! （sides uh-one and uh-two）（1957）
featuring Daws Butler, Peggy Taylor, Chuck Schrouder, The Lemon Sisters, and Billy Liebert （accordion）
Stan’s elaborate spoof of the Lawrence Welk Show had initially been performed ‘live’ on his summertime CBS Radio comedy-variety program, This subsequent Capitol recording turned out to be Freberg’s final Billboard top-40 charting single.
Stan Freberg with The Toads and Billy May’s Music – The Great Pretender（1956）
Stan Freberg and his Sniffle Group – Rock Island Line（1956）
conducted by Billy Liebert, interruptions by Peter Leeds
Stan Freberg – Heartbreak Hotel（1956/06）
conducted by Billy Liebert, echo by Mammoth Cave
Billboard Chart Peak: 79
Stan Freberg with Burglar and Billy May’s Music – Nuttin’ For Christmas（1955/11）
Stan Freberg and Daws Butler – The Lone Psychiatrist（1955）
featuring June Foray, orchestra conducted by Billy May
Stan Freberg and Daws Butler – Point Of Order（1954）
music by George Bruns
シングル “Person To Pearson” のＢ面。
Stan Freberg – The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise（1952/10）
conducted by George Bruns
banjos by Dick Roberts and Red Rountree
Stan Freberg – I’ve Got You Under My Skin（1951/07）
orchestra and chorus conducted by Les Baxter
２度目の引用。
＜参考＞
Percy Faith and his Orchestra and Chorus, with Burl Ives – On Top Of Old Smoky（1951/04/23）
＜参考＞
The Weavers and Terry Gilkyson – On Top Of Old Smoky（1951/05）
orchestra and chorus conducted by Vic Schoen
シングル “Across The Wide Missouri” のＢ面。
Stan Freberg – John And Marsha（1951/01）
conducted by Cliffie Stone
実は永らくスタン・フリバーグのレコードが手に入らず、RAVENのＬＰ『Stan Freberg vs Rock’n’Roll』を入手したのは１９８７年秋のことだった。
同じパロディでも私が影響を受けたのはビル・ブキャナンのサウンドコラージュのほうで、１９８０年代前半にその手法でずいぶんと作ったものだ。
Buchanan and Goodman – The Flying Saucer Part 1 & 2（1956/07 single version）
CD reissues have sometimes been “improved” by substituting slightly different-sounding song snippets and/or normalizing the gain and quality variations that were apparent in the original single. In the interest of authenticity, this post reflects “The Flying Saucer” as it sounded in its 1956 release version.
Buchanan and Goodman – Buchanan and Goodman On Trial（1956）
Buchanan And Goodman – Flying Saucer The 2nd（1957/06 unaltered hit single version）
with love from Audrey – Dear Elvis（Page 1 & 2）（1956/09/12）
Using the novel ‘break-in’ sampling technique pioneered only a few weeks earlier by Buchanan & Goodman–and labelled as a “madrigual with mimicry”–Audrey （whoever she was） weaves various record snippers into this fan letter to her idol.
P.Q. Rock’N’ Roll – All About Elvis（Part 1 & 2）（1956/09/19）
Buchanan and Goodman with Paul Sherman – Santa And The Satellite Part I & II（1957/11）
シングルのＡ・Ｂ面。
クリスマス・ソング。
a Buchanan and Goodman prod. – The Flying Saucer Goes West（1958/01）
A Buchanan and Goodman enterprice Production with Count Dracula – Frankenstein Of ‘59(Part 1) / Frankenstein Returns(Part 2)(1959)
a Buchanan & Goodman prod. – Flying Saucer The 3rd（1959/07）
In 1956 with their best-selling single “The Flying Saucer,” Dickie Goodman and Bill Buchanan created a novelty format which came to be known as the “break-in” record, utilizing short audio clips from recent ‘pop’ and R&B hits to help tell a story.
Arbogast & Ross – Chaos（Parts 1 & 2）（1959）
Pop Chart Peak Position: Music Vendor 108
Dickie Goodman – The Touchables（1961/01）
‘Break-in’ novelty spoof of the currently-popular television series “The Untouchables.”
Dickie Goodman – The Touchables In Brooklyn（1961/04）
Inspired by the Robert Stack television series “The Untouchables,” this was the follow-up single release to Goodman’s “The Touchables”
Dickie Goodman – Berlin Top Ten（1961/09）
Topical ‘break-in’ novelty inspired by the Berlin Crisis of 1961.
Dickie Goodman & Dr. I. M. ILL – Ben Crazy（1962/06）
One of Goodman’s many ‘break-in’ novelties, this time spoofing the popular TV medical drama series “Ben Casey.”
Dickie Goodman – Senate Hearing（1963/10）
Topical ‘break-in’ novelty inspired by the 1963 U.S. Senate ‘Valachi hearings,’ which featured explosive testimony by Mafia member Joseph Valachi.
Note the time discrep between this post and the 2:02 duration shown on the label. Unfortunately I neither own a copy of the original 45 nor have I found a vinyl transfer online. While such labelling errors were not uncommon, some Goodman tracks also have been known to be edited for copyright reasons when reissued on LP or CD. I suspect that there may be a song snippet or two missing from this commonly-available reissue version and would be interested in hearing from anyone who can verify one way or the other.
Buchanan and Greenfield – The Invasion（1964/09）
Dickie Goodman – Batman And His Grandmother（1966/04）
Dickie Goodman – On Campus（1969/06 mono 45）
Pop Chart Peaks: Billboard 45, Record World 49, Cash Box 58
Thirteen years after Dickie’s memorable “Flying Saucer” debut, this’break-in’ novelty about current unrest on college campuses failed to make a significant splash, but he would enjoy one more major hit with his 1975 release of “Mr. Jaws.”
John & Ernest – Super Fly Meets Shaft（1973/02 mono 45）
Pop Chart Peaks: Billboard 31, Record World 38, Cash Box 43 – R&B Peak: 17
A break-in novelty co-written but （for a change） not voiced by Dickie Goodman. We hear John Free and Ernest Smith.
Dickie Goodman – Energy Crisis ’74（1974/02 mono 45）
Pop Chart Peaks: Record World 29, Billboard 33, Cash Box 37
Incorrectly labeled as ‘stereo,’ this was the second of five Goodman break-in novelties to chart Hot 100 during the 1970s decade.
Dickie Goodman – Mr. Jaws（1975/08 mono 45, original single version）
Pop Chart Peaks: Cash Box & Record World 1, Billboard 4
Inspired by the wildly popular 1975 Spielberg film, this turned out to be the only other of Goodman’s numerous break-in novelties beyond the original “The Flying Saucer” （1956） to become a national Top 10 single. Later reissues of “Mr. Jaws” substituted sound-alike samples for some of the actual hit versions featured here in the 45.
＜参考＞
Syd Lawrence and Friends – The answer to The Flying Saucer U.F.O.（Men From Mars）（1956/09）
２度目の引用。
Of special note toward the end of this track is the appearance of legendary Cleveland DJ （WERE） Bill Randle, who lightly spoofs his own on-air persona. The two record snippets most likely to be unfamiliar to some would be the sped-up Sammy Davis Jr’s “Uh-Oh Get Out Of The Car” at the open and Eddie Lawrence’s spoken “umgawa” bit from “King Arthur’s Mines.”
＜参考＞
Arbogast & Ross – Chaos（1959）
performed by Arbogast & Ross
released as Liberty F-55197 in June 1959
＜参考＞
Susan Smith – A Letter from Susan（1962）
Did not chart nationally in Billboard, but charted locally in the Top 10 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in November 1962, the top 40 in Springfield, Massachusetts and the Top 60 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Written and produced by Howard Greenfield （the songwriting partner of Neil Sedaka） and Bill Buchanan.
B-side is “Will You Love Me When I’m Old”.
＜参考＞
The Delegates – Convention’72（1972/10 mono 45）
グループ名 “Delegates” は「議員」の意。
This Dickie Goodman-inspired ‘break-in’ hit featured KQV Pittsburgh morning deejay Bob DeCarlo and rode the singles charts during the weeks prior to–and following–the 1972 presidential election.
＜参考＞
Vik Venus Alias: Your Main Moon Man – Moonflight（1969/05 mono 45）
アポロ月面着陸を当て込んだお笑い盤。
Buchanan and Goodman 式ながら使用楽曲は発売元のブッダ関連のみだそうだ。
２度目の引用。
produced by Lewis Merenstein
Pop Chart Peaks: Cash Box 23, Record World 27, Billboard 38
A ‘break-in’ novelty in the Dickie Goodman tradition but featuring song snippets only from the Buddha family of record labels. The voice of “Vik Venus” was spoken by popular NYC deejay WMCA “Good Guy” Jack Spector.
＜参考＞
Dickie Goodman – On Campus（1969/06）
ベトナム戦争関連の内容。
＜参考＞
Cheech & Chong – Earache My Eye（Featuring Alice Bowie）（1974/07 stereo 45）
チーチ・アンド・チョン – ミスター・ロックンロール
Producer: Lou Adler
シングルＢ面 “Turn That Thing Down” の邦題は「ミスター・ロックンロール その2」。
Pop Chart Peaks: Cash Box 4, Billboard & Record World 9
Highest charting single by the comedy duo （see the title’s Wikipedia page for more info about the recording）.