FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #16: Viva Lost Vegans
STEVE MARTIN “Grandmother’s Song” b/w “Let’s Get Small” (Warner Bros. Records WBS 8503, 1977)
Novelty songs and comedy records were of no short supply in my house as a kid growing up. In my Dad’s collection alone, amongst the guitar virtuosos and big western-swing bands, there were scads of 78 RPM platters by the likes of Spike Jones and Kay Kyser’s Kampus Kowboys. My older brother had the motherlode, of course:  pristine full-length stereophonic LPs of Lenny Bruce, […]