Word: meaders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the rest of the cast works hard and well, too, although no one can ever quite overcome the lethargy of the non-musical scenes. David Dunton's sharp and funny portrayal of the devil, Applegate, bristles with cunning and sleek nastiness. While Don Meader's version of Joe Hardy, super baseball star, is essentially unappealing (why does he always scowl?), his singing voice has extraordinary power and expression...
...context, from two separate tapes. The result is a new comedy album, Welcome to the L.B.J. Ranch, created by Gag Writer Earle Doud, that in two weeks has sold some 500,000 copies and bids fair to rival Doud's earlier spoof, The First Family (with Vaughn Meader as J.F.K...
Among all the young comedians who tried to make a nickel by imitating the voice of President Kennedy, Boston's Vaughn Meader did the best. His album The First Family sold over 3,500,000 copies. But after the President's death, record stores withdrew the records; nightclubs where Meader had been booked canceled his engagements...
...Meader's act at the time actually had very little Kennedy material in it-only five minutes out of 45-because he was trying to shed his identification with the President and shape a career as a general comedian. Nonetheless, Meader had so thoroughly established himself as the myna bird who sounded like a President that he risked never being accepted as anything else...
Kennedy apparently admires the job Vaughn Meader did of imitating the President in his album "The First Family." The record has now sold over 4 million copies and Teddy told the dinner audience "I hope my record is as good...