Hi,

I'm trying to find an 8track from my youth  :-[

All I can remember is that is was a comedy compilation, and had something
to do with an alien or something.  The entire thing was made up from quotes
from movies, and lyrics from songs.

One part that sticks in my mind is the line:

"I wonder why nobody don't like me, or is it the fact that I'm ugly"

Or something similar from Harry Belafonte I believe.

ANy help would be appreciated, just the name of the album/8track
would get me on the right track.

TIA
Steve

Surprised Crazy Don hasn't already answered this one. :-) Your "mystery song" is "Flying Saucer The 2nd" by Buchanan and Goodman, a big hit here in the U.S. in the Summer of '57. The sample line you quoted was taken from "Mama Look at Bubu" by Harry Belafonte, a big hit here in the U.S. in the Spring of '57, but as you indicated, "Flying Saucer The 2nd" also included snippets of other hit songs of the day. (The spoken lines in the song weren't from movies, though - they were actually recorded by B&G.)

"Flying Saucer The 2nd" was what is known in the music biz as a "break-in" record, and Dickie Goodman was the master. (In the late '50s, he teamed up w/ Bill Buchanan, before going solo.) "Break-in" records were the first to use actual song samples, long before rappers came along and started doing the same in the late '70s. And not to sound too technical, but they were considered "novelty" recordings, not "comedy". B&G also had a huge hit w/ "The Flying Saucer, Parts 1 & 2" in the Summer of '56; after Goodman went solo, he scored pretty big w/ such songs as "Energy Crisis '74" in the Winter of '74, "Mr. Jaws" in the Fall of '75, and "Kong" in the Winter of '77 - all of them were also "break-in" records...

So this is just a stab, but the 8-track you had was probably Dickie Goodman's 1975 hits collection, titled Mr. Jaws and Other Fables, which included all of the hits I named above (except for "Kong"). If so, unfortunately, the album is long out-of-print, and has never been re-issued on CD here in the U.S. But if that wasn't the actual 8-track, it obviously included several hits by Buchanan and Goodman, and probably Dickie Goodman solo as well...

In the '90s, there were a couple of Dickie Goodman "hits" collections that were released on CD here in the U.S., and they include all of the songs mentioned above...

Hi,

Thanx for the info, now I have somewhere to start at least.

Steve