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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...
...Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Sally Ann Howes, Buddy Hackett, Vaughn Meader...
Wispy & Whispery. All the hustle and hubbub was about an LP platter called The First Family, starring a young (26) comic named Vaughn Meader, who does a frequently riotous impersonation of Jack Kennedy. Meader's intonation, rhythm and broad Bostonian accent are good enough to fool any Jacqueline. The series of skits that comprise the record also include a wonderfully wispy, whispery impersonation of Jackie herself, played by Naomi Brossart. Most of it is not wit but gags, and the gags are not all top-drawer, though they are greeted as such by one of those irritating studio audiences...