1956 HITS ARCHIVE: The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2) - Buchanan & Goodman (original 45 single version)

[@harrylangdon491]

I was in my bunk in summer camp when suddenly a couple of boys (around 14 years old) excitedly rushed in saying flying saucers had landed. They had been listening to this record on the radio.

[@sprague49]

My older brother bought this record when it first came out in '56 on 78 rpm. When he got tired of it he gave it to me. 65 years later I still have it in my collection. Also, over the years, I collected every one of the records used on The Flying Saucer. "Don't Be Angry" by Nappy Brown on the Savoy label is my favorite.

[@davidlogansr8007]

I like Band of Gold by Don Something

[@t40onbass]

@@davidlogansr8007 Don Cherry

[@barbarakirk3064]

I first heard Don't Be Angry as performed by Bad Manners in the 80s.

[@joytassoni5036]

I am so happy I found this !! I owned this & have been searching for it & cant find it so Im thrilled to find & hear it again. This takes me back to my youth early 60s I smiled the whole time hearing this. What fun this is!! This made my day!! Thank you so so so much!! Rock On!!! 😁😁🥰🥰🥰

[@FeezWeas]

In 1956 when this came out, 3 of my teen friends and I created our own version (Sailing Saucers, about the collision of two ships). We took our cassette tape to a sound booth and cut a vinyl platter of it. A local DJ did play it some, but it was never published. We probably would have had legal problems like Dickie Goodman did.

[@MeanMrMustard1]

What kind of cassettes were available to the public back in the 50s?

[@cr1nge689]

@@MeanMrMustard1probably reel-to-reel radio tapes

[@bobkurtz2816]

In 1973 I made my own cut-in record, called the 'Great California Quake' starring Big Bad John Wayne. I played it on my radio show on KWUN in Concord, CA. My students laughed and that was about it. Wish I had a copy of it today.

[@lukamagicc]

No fucking way, I'm also from Concord. What school is this if you don't mind?

[@nealbfinn]

I'm also from Concord and I remember KWUN. Wish I could have heard your record.

[@shel1381]

I have my mothers 45 rpm of this. Born in 1960 I grew up playing this on my record player all the time. I love it!!🤪🤪

[@MikeBlitzMag]

The Thin Gentleman, Pa Gherkins, Huckleberry, the Clatters, the Pelicans, Skinny Dynamo, Laughing Lewis, etc. You've gotta love it. Flying Saucer The 2nd is even better in that respect.

[@unknown_guy5366]

I just randomly heard this on radio on a Sunday

[@cooliostarstache5474]

I'm a very young man, so anyone that knows more about this I do feel free to correct me, but this feels incredibly innovative for the time, right?

[@wakkirecordshistory]

Incredibly innovative. Nobody else had used tape samples and effects this way for a successful single before. History-making.

[@killnkind]

I do believe this was the first time sampling was used. I think RCA tried to get em for the Elvis clip back in 57/58. This also spawned a cheesy record called The Return Of Jerry Lee.

[@dwk1947]

Thanks Rumi. I remember so well how much fun it was listening to the radio

[@malakib1998]

Love this funny medley of tunes/oldies on Sirius XM 50's Channel.

[@sooz9433]

Oh my lord...😂 I remember this and it seems to me there were a couple more some while later. My brother and I used to roll around in the back seat of the car laughing every time it came on the radio!! Soundtrack of my youth 🎼🖤

[@heatherstub]

I was born in 1964, but my mother had this 45, and I fell in love with it the instant I first heard it, and it's still around! Get it? I've tried to restore it, but I'm afraid it's not in the best condition. Also, the B side plays as though it's slipping. Thank you so much for including this amazing record and the 1958 "Flying Saucer Goes West" record as well. I've never heard that one, but I'll have to play it for my mother to see what her reaction is. Thanks again!

[@the45prof98]

My pleasure!

[@t40onbass]

​@@the45prof98I finally was able to dig out my Joel Whitburn R&B hits book from so long ago. This got to #4 on the Billboard R&B chart. That gives it the distinction of being the first recording to hit the survey using samples of other recordings.

[@audreyneal8294]

LOL forgot about this one ! Thanx for the good laugh and for the posting.

[@DO-GD]

I can't believe I just found a copy of this, only heard it off of a reel my dad compiled of 50's Rock with tones at the end for the first tape-based automation system with 5-10x R2R decks and cart carousels for the station he worked at. Now I just need Santa & The Satellite. I have that on the Dr. Demento Christmas LP

[@DO-GD]

I also like how Chris Rock did his own modern versions of these (at the time) on his comedy albums (O'jays/Back Stabbers lol)

[@charlenearnett6888]

Hadn't heard this song since I was a teenager, love it

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

Something got me to thinking about Dickie Goodman, earlier today, and, while I'd wondered how I was going to track his stuff down...it finally crossed my mind that YT might be the place to look. Wow...I knew he'd done more than the couple I recalled (Mr. Jaws, and The Flying Saucer) from the radio in the late 70s, but finding fifty-nine of them kinda amazed me.

[@giddycadet]

I only heard this about a year ago while researching the history of plunderphonics and it still absolutely gets me. i know there's a lot of nostalgia in this comments section but come on it's also REALLY funny

[@wesleycook7687]

Love both parts 1and 2.

[@sylvisterling8782]

I remember when this came out! Other "break in" records include "Winkley and Nutley Special Report" that featured an "interview" with Senator "Fennady" who was running for President. at that time (1960). I know there were a lot of them. I love the old Fifties comedy records. "Mad Scientist" on Feather Records was another favorite of mine.

[@the45prof98]

The Winkly-Nutly is one of many break-ins also posted to this channel. Listen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGm5Y2WrbsiWh9U

[@thestones8022]

My parents had this 45 and in the 1960's I used to play it on my Close N Play THIS AND ONE EYED ONE HORNED FLYING PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS!!.

[@f.d.3289]

f*cking awesome!! It took my 47 years to stumble upon this, but even though these 47 years were hell, it was worth it :D

[@SteveStalzle]

I remember how Dickie Goodman got into legal issues with using unauthorized song clips.

[@wesleycook7687]

Kids today don't know what they missed.

[@alonsoschneider8109]

Old people too. Just enjoy the music and dont be stupid

[@lukamagicc]

Ah yes they missed this random mashup content that totally doesn't exist today. Sucks for them!

[@OgWoot]

Ow they will 🤣🤘

[@ValleyProud916]

I haven't heard this in 50 years

[@garrison7888]

Dicky Goodman did a few of these records. He would take parts of other records and insert them into his record. They tried to come after him for copyrights but the parts were too small and he did not have to pay.

[@t40onbass]

I think the judge ruled that what B&G did was create a new work. I'd guess by the reasoning that if someone wanted to hear or purchase "Heartbreak Hotel", "Poor Me" or "Long Tall Sally" they weren't gonna buy "Flying Saucer" to hear 3-5 seconds of the tunes. They'd buy the actual records. In retrospect the record might've helped sell some of those tunes back then. A lot of them were R&B tunes from the early days of Rock & Roll. I also wonder if any lawsuits were successful how many of the artists or writers would've been compensated. I might have the wrong angle though...it seems like the issue was whether "Saucer" was harming the sales of the tunes included or not. I think there was a settlement made. I could see that because some of the companies that filed suit were probably doing some underhanded stuff themselves. I know I hear Frankie Lymon in there and it's a well known fact that his label was run by mobsters who never paid a dime to the artists. I think one was Morris Levy of Roulette Records.

[@robertorick6383]

@@t40onbass It was surprising that Dickie & Bill didn't cross paths with Morris Levy; He was a mobster who indeed had hit men from the Genaveese family. He got even with Jimmie Rodgers, for instance when he left Roulette for Dot & A&M Records, and had Top 40 records on both of them. That beating that Jimmie Rodgers had in December 1967 was ordered by Levy &he sent hit men disguised as LA highway patrolmen to fool Rodgers. It was no accident. While Levy didn't harm Goodman & Buchanan, Fat's Domino's lawyers & agents didn't take the inclusion of Fats Domino's songs in the break-in novelty too lightly. Neither did Mercury Records & Platters' manager Buck Ram., who didn't particularly find the "Uh Oh" by The Clatters joke funny. They were the ones who issued the lawsuits to Buchanan & Goodman for severance payment for borrowing a few seconds of their hit songs. Fat's Domino's agent & lawyers went after Goodman again in 1961 for the single "Santa & The Touchables", which original pressings had a snippet of "What A Party" on it. Domino's lawyers were successful enough to remove the line, and had it replaced by another line from Ray Charles' "Hit The Road, Jack" re-inserted in its place for second pressings of the record.

[@t40onbass]

@@robertorick6383 I DO know that one of the guys that was behind the release of that record was George Goldner. I believe he was one of Levy's men.

[@robertorick6383]

@@t40onbass Indeed he was. George Goldner was a brilliant label owner & manager, but he was a hopeless gambling addict who always needed Levy's help to fall back on . Whenever Goldner couldn't pay his debts up after losing at the race horse track or at the casinos, he owed Morris Levy an entire record label. Thanks to Goldner's carelessness with his hard earned money, Levy wound up with Gee, Gone, Cindy, Rama, Hull, End, Tico, and Boutique (which issued a questionably legal or illegal album of old Tiny Tim outtakes from 1963, long before he hit the charts with "Tip Toe Through The Tulips".) All of these labels involved Goldner, and when he lost money to his gambling addiction, he'd wind up giving a label imprint to Goldner. The only ones that Levy did not get that Goldner was involved with were Red Bird, Blue Cat, Tiger , & Daisy Records, all labels formed by Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller, and had some production involvement with Goldner. Shelby Singleton wound up buying out Red Birds' family of labels instead of Morris Levy. Goldner was attempting to form yet another label when he died in 1970.

[@robertorick6383]

Sorry. I meant Goldner always wound up giving a record label to Morris Levy whenever he lost money. My mistake.

[@Gr8LilLady]

I love it!!! ❤🎶

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Sampling before sampling.

[@barrykochverts4149]

Circa 1961, this kid and I were hanging around the reservoir by the Fountain St. causeway to Ashland, and we spied something unusual a few feet off shore under about 6 inches of water. We realized it was one of those cheap briefcase-sized record players that most kids had to play their "Golden" records, and there were several dozen 45 rpm discs splayed out from it. It must have been a case of some teen's annoyed Dad getting rid of "that noise" once and for all. We decided to split the records and I ended up with "The Flying Saucer". Not knowing the first thing about pop music, I didn't get any of the parody titles, or even the songs themselves ( I got into pop with the Beatles). Fast forward to now. My workmate is streaming some political commentator. I ask her who it is, and she says "Christo Aivalis". Somehow, hearing Aivalis' voice has connected me with "The Flying Saucer". So I play this video and realize Aivalis sounds EXACTLY like the character, "John Cameron-Cameron!" Not only that, I finally understand that the song names are not those of real artists, but parodies of their names. Long ago and far away....

[@floyd2424]

Yes I still have my 78 of it too

[@dimakonko3352]

I guess that first ever mashup song in history

[@lindawilkey7629]

That's the truth I thank God for my time in the 60_70

[@louishubbard8036]

great stuff

[@esmemondragon5281]

Love it

[@bobkurtz2816]

I made my own cut-in record and the law allows 8 seconds free use. This was 1973

[@lukamagicc]

Is this the first meme/KZbin poop in history perhaps??

[@steamstream777]

Yes.

[@SL-cl9gt]

World’s first meme compilation.

[@wildcatfalling]

thank you !!

[@traceybfromlv1139]

Love this!

[@木倉谷哲也]

Lyrics: [PART 1] [instrumental intro (Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle & Roll”)] [announcer]: 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 Too real when I feel What my heart can’t conceal [ The Platters “The Great Pretender”] [ announcer]: That was The Clatters recording, too Real We switch you now to our on the spot reporter downtown C’mon baby, let’s go downtown [Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers “I Want You To Be My Girl”] [announcer]: Take it away John Cameron Cameron [ reporter]: This is John Cameron Cameron downtown Pardon me madam, would you tell our audience what would you do if the saucer were to land? Jump back in the alley [Little Richard “Long Tall Sally”] [reporter]: Thank you and now the thin gentleman there What I’m gonna do, is hard to tell [Fats Domino “Poor Me”] [reporter]: And the gentleman with the guitar, what would you do, sir Just take a walk down lonely street [Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel”] [reporter]: Thank you. We return you now …SCR-EE-EE-CH [Brak]: This is Brak your outer space disc jockey with a request for Earth Earth angel, earth angel [The Penguins “Earth Angel”] [announcer]: That was The Pelicans outer space recording, Earth I’ve just been handed a bulletin The flying saucer has just landed We switch you again downtown [reporter]: Here we are again We have with us Professor Sir Cedric Pentingmode of the British Institute and the professor is approaching the saucer to see if there’s possibly any sign of life abroad [Sir Cedric]: Well, I’m sure something …are you there? I hear you knocking But you can’t come in [Smiley Lewis “I Hear You Knocking”] [announcer]: That was Laughing Lewis’ record, Knocking [reporter]: 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 A wop bop a-lumop ba-lop bam boom [Little Richard “Tutti Frutti”] [announcer]: And now here are the ball scores Four to three, six to two, and eight to one The impact of seeing the first spaceman has this reporter reeling Here I go reeling, uh-oh, uh-oh [ The Platters “The Magic Touch”] [announcer]: That was The Clatters again with their big one, Uh-Oh [reporter]: This is John Cameron Cameron again downtown The spaceman has returned to his ship and is taking off We return you now to our studios The flying saucer has gone There is no threat of an invasion However, the flying saucers are still around Still around [The Platters “The Great Pretender”] [PART 2] Ba-ba, ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba [announcer]: We are not going to interrupt this record Ba-ba, ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba [announcer]: Yes, we are The flying saucer has landed again Washington, The Secretary Of Defense has just said Ain’t that a shame [Fats Domino “Ain’t That A Shame”] [announcer]: That was Skinny Dynamo’s record, That’s A Shame [reporter]: This is John Cameron Cameron, part two Gathered around me are several of the spaceman Tell us, have you come to conquer the world? [alien]: #&*@%*+)&=;-‘£|[$&@¥*#£€%(@¥…^|§ [reporter]: And now would you repeat that in English? Don’t want the world to have and hold [Don Cherry “Band Of Gold”] [heckler]: Hey, why don’t you go back where ya came from? Don’t be angry and drive me away [Nappy Brown “Don’t Be Angry”] [reporter]: We return you now to our studios [announcer]: Here is a news item from Washington The president has just issued a statement to the spaceman and we quote; You can do anything But lay off my blue suede shoes [Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes”] [announcer]: That was Pa Gherkin’s record, Shoes We switch you again downtown [reporter]: This is John Cameron Cameron downtown Professor Sir Cedric of the British Institute, tell us how were the saucers able to land? [Sir Cedric]: Well, you see… The motor cooled down The heat went down [Chuck Berry “Maybelline”] [announcer]: That was Huckle Berry’s recording, The Motor Cooled Down [reporter]: This is John Cameron Cameron again I believe the spaceman has a final parting word See you later, alligator [Bill Haley “See You Later, Alligator”] [reporter]: We return you now to our studios [announcer]: The spaceman have gone again but look to the skies The saucers will always be there Always be there [The Platters “My Prayer”] [Brak]: Good-bye Earth people

[@t40onbass]

That intro cut isn't Joe Turner. It's the more obscure Nappy Brown tune "Open Up the Door (and Walk Right In My Heart). If it weren't for being sampled in this recording it may never have been known at all outside the R&B listening audience.

[@lenb7275]

They Had A Fascination With Flying Saucers In The 50's ????

[@AnUncreativePerson]

Got it from my grandma and it was too chipped to listen to so I came here.

[@jaji8549]

A bit of my childhood :-)

[@장순국-u6b]

조회수 15,428회... 잘 들었습니다.

[@MoxieMike66]

My dad has 2 copies of this so he could play them back to back, side 1 & side 2. It got banned for using the song clips w/o permission. I got to hear it growing up when he played his record collection.

[@samuelehret2000]

YES!!!!!!!

[@sweetjoey2]

how have i never heard this one before rofl.

[@edwardanthony7283]

Should have been Looniverse Records.

[@josephtisdale5262]

I wish all these songs were mixed into stereo vdrsions.

[@dogerecords5312]

They don't really need it, it would sound a bit off.

[@robertorick6383]

Dickie Didn't bother with stereo sound until around 1976, when he issued "Kong." When he did try to issue a fake stereo album in 1975 with the "Mr. Jaws" album, the results were awful. Dickie also tampered with the master tapes on this album by eliminating some snippets of songs or using inferior re-recorded versions of the oldies he sampled. For example, the "Uh-Oh" joke is omitted on this album release (probably because Mercury Records & Buck Ram have harassed Dickie with lawsuits for years about the "Clatters" joke. Buck Ram didn't particularly find the gag funny.)

[@frankwirtz347]

Is that George Carlin as the dj? It sure sounds like him to my ears.Anybody know for sure?

[@the45prof98]

The voices are Dickie Goodman and Bill Buchanan. Carlin was a 19 year-old member of the U.S. Air Force at that time, still a decade before he gained fame as a stand-up comedian.

[@frankwirtz347]

Ok thanks. 👌

[@padawanjesus]

does anyone else think these were the first memes?

[@lrfcarreviews2570]

These were definitely memes back in the 1950s, but memes has its own long history.

[@padawanjesus]

@@lrfcarreviews2570 so whats before this?

[@deanhotter6054]

I like how he's making up names for artist and shortening the title to one or two words from it 😂

[@saaausteen]

да, вы всё правильно поняли

[@deimous9053]

Школьник с видоса про пупы . Всё правильно

[@saaausteen]

@@deimous9053 именно, именно он

[@dariawells7438]

This reminds me a bit of Bonzo Dog Band or Python bits.

[@edgarpenaflor2611]

Which record they interrumped on B-side??

[@the45prof98]

"Band Of Gold" by Don Cherry. See this video's written description for a playlist link with all of the recordings used.

[@edwardanthony7283]

Pre Candidates.

[@illusionist1872]

0:35

[@RacerMun]

See them in Las Vegas 2023 🤩 UFO 🛸📺?….

[@javiervillarreal2584]

Weird song but co

[@everettca.p9140]

I eat 🐔 wings

[@cynthiapickett7403]

Very funny parody that wouldn't likely fly due (for starters) to legal issues.

[@DRLongSchlong671]

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