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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laura Esserman (you'll be hearing that name a lot) began her quest for the weirdest entry in the "And when I Die..." section, filling out the "Leader of the Pack" question with "I'll never forget you, THE INDIGESTION STAYS ON MY MIND...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'Disk Frisk' Entries More Bizarre Than Questions | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

However, that placed second to Esserman's bizarre poetic license, giving the Grass Roots' "eye" single as "Midnight Confessions," and the B.J. Thomas "eye" smash as "R-eyendrops Keep Fallin' On My Head...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'Disk Frisk' Entries More Bizarre Than Questions | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

...university was represented, from finance capital to the lowliest of the lumpen. A grand total of about 4000 answers, both straight-forward and way the hell off the track. But as I sit here now, NOBODY, but nobody could compare with the answers that were turned in by Esserman, so I might as well just give you her choicest brainstorms before the fellas in the white nehru jackets pack her away for posterity...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'Disk Frisk' Entries More Bizarre Than Questions | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

Until next year, when the oldies are one year older and Laura Esserman has graduated, stay cool, and see if you can think of something else during exam period besides the lyrics to the first verse of Brian Hyland's "The Joker is Wild...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'Disk Frisk' Entries More Bizarre Than Questions | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

...with a Western accent that seemed to be borrowed from a Eugene O'Neill seaplay. William Falk and Patricia Low as Will Parker and Ado Annie both sang and danced with comic talent and lots of energy, but their characters had the depth of colorforms. Laura Jean Esserman as Gertie Cummings read every line as though she were doing an opera without music. Her laugh haunted me through three nights of horrifying dreams. Richard Rosomoff's nut-colored Ali Hakim was very, very funny. It's hard to figure why the Hakim song, "It's a Scandal...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Waving Wheat Still Smells Sweet | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

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