Radio Dinner

National Lampoon Radio Dinner is a comedy album from National Lampoon that was first released in 1972. The humor on the album was steeped in the pop culture of the era and includes such subjects as game shows ("Catch It and You Keep It"), the 1972 presidential election ("Profiles in Chrome", where the Democrats nominate a Pontiac GTO to run for office while then-president Richard Nixon counters by transforming into a car himself), and popular music parodies such as "Deteriorata" (a parody of Les Crane's "Desiderata") and "Pull the Tregros", a parody of Joan Baez.

Radio Dinner
Studio album by
National Lampoon
ReleasedJuly 1972
GenreComedy, parody, rock, folk rock
LabelBlue Thumb, MCA
ProducerTony Hendra, Michael O'Donoghue, Bob Tischler
National Lampoon chronology
Radio Dinner
(1972)		 National Lampoon's Lemmings
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
NewsdayA–[2]

The latter subject also includes several references and sketches about the solo careers of the former members of the Beatles. Among these are "Teenyrap", in which two teenagers discuss George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh; and "Magical Misery Tour (Bootleg Record)", a parody of John Lennon's primal therapy-inspired songwriting style, with its lyrics, including the repeated cry of "Genius is pain!", taken directly from Lennon's famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview. Melissa Manchester made a brief speaking appearance as "Yoko Ono" on the latter track. Other Beatles-related satire are references to Paul McCartney's single "Give Ireland Back to the Irish", where an Irish tenor begins to sing the song and is repeatedly shot, and the "Paul is Dead" hoax.

The album was originally set to be released on RCA Records, but the company balked at a track called "David and Julie", a highly off-color bit about David and Julie Eisenhower. National Lampoon refused to cut the piece and took the album to Blue Thumb instead, but were met with the same objection. Lampoon relented and the album was released without the offending bit.[3]

Track listing

Side One
  1. Deteriorata
  2. Phono Phunnies
  3. Teenyrap
  4. It's Obvious
  5. Catch It and You Keep It
  6. 'Quinas 'n' 'Rasmus
  7. All Kidding Aside (PSA)
  8. Phono Phunnies
  9. Teenyrap
  10. Magical Misery Tour (Bootleg Record)

Side Thirteen (Side Two)
  1. Those Fabulous Sixties
  2. Profiles in Chrome
  3. Teenyrap
  4. Phono Phunnies
  5. Pigeons
  6. Support Your Locol Polece (PSA)
  7. Pull the Tregros
  8. Head Bands
  9. Phono Phunnies, Performed by Christopher Guest and Naomi R. Page
  10. Concert in Bangla Desh

References
  1. Allmusic review
  2. Christgau, Robert (March 11, 1973). "The Comedy Album Crop". Newsday. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  3. "Record Censored, Lampoon to Tour". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (120): 16–18. October 26, 1972.


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