Vic Venus-Moonflight 1969

[kingsuji]

On the 42nd anniversary of man stepping on the moon, I must say, this "song" is as lame as it was in 1969.

Kingsuji

[jasonpp1973]

This idea has be used before using snippets of Jerry Lee Lewis' Sun Records tracks, it's called "The Retturn Of Jerry Lee"

[electronmusicjunkie]

I heard according to Billboards top100 book that this DJ actually died while doing his show on a Long Island oldies station back in the 90s.

[miketheshanmanmangan]

Unlike Buchanan & Goodman my main man Jake used all songs from the same stable of labels with Buddah and sub labels Curtom etc.Rip Jack one of New York city,s most beloved air personalities who actually passed away on the air doing a show on a long island radio station.

[SEVFEST]

did you notice, LOL You spelled Bridge with two D's {Briddge} 

[mailman63155]

pretty lame

[Waynescott1]

a classic plus a great vehicle for artists on Buddah records!

[pastcheck]

Great Marketing technique to showcase the bands on those labels. also inspired as teens to "produce" our own stories with our "45's

[redmancheyenne]

Used to have this on a 45 rpm.

Been thinking about this for years!!!

[psykdiva]

Cute, cute, cute!!! I'd heard of this song (a guy I knew told me about it and "did" as much of it as he could remember--both the talking and the singing), but this is the first time I've actually gotten to hear the whole thing.

[geor67]

Hey! Very groovy! It reminds me of Dickie Goodman. Love the bubblegum! This rocks!

[genista2001]

I love this song........I bought it in 1969 during my last year of high school. It was in the sale stand of my favourite record shop. It cost me 10 cents and I still have it in my record collection along with other long forgotten favourite oldies!!

[RedVynil]

It's not hard to find at all. I've come across a few copies in my searches for break-ins for my collection.

[Waynescott1]

Man I remember this goodie..and love Jake's NY City accent! LONG LIVE JACK, VIC AND THE WMCA GOOD GUYS!

[nogoy55]

I love it! I miss these records. Thank you for posting.

[tlcesq]

Thanks SO MUCH for posting this. I, too, have been trying to remember this song, as I get ready to turn 50! Brought back many fab memories of summertime and AM radio.

[garageband66]

I got a couple of years before 50 but I know what you mean. AM radio is missed by many of us.

[pastcheck]

@garageband66 We have a GREAT AM station here in Owosso<MI that plays DEEP cuts from the AM '60's days. Flaming Embers, Dion Jackson, anything! the Big 1080 WOAP!

[kennetzel]

This is great. I have this on CD, and I STILL have the 45 on Buddah records. I remember this from my childhood...listening to this and the Royal Guardsmen's the Smallest Astronaut as we went to the moon. Great "Cheer On" songs.

[garageband66]

I still have this on 45 as well and many more that label. You should post the smallest astronaut; I don't have that one.

[kennetzel]

The Smallest Astronaut is on Youtube as well. I found it the other day. Search for "The Smallest Astronaut."

[RedVynil]

I've got tons of Buddah's, too. I collect that lable.

[kennetzel]

@garageband66

I did post the Smallest Astronaut. Look for it in my uploaded videos. As far as I am concerned, this one and the Smallest Astronaut are companion pieces. They were both out at the same time and acomplished the same thing.

[kennetzel]

@garageband66

I did post the Smallest Astronaut. Just check my uploded videos. I put pics of the Apollo and Snoopy Moon related pics. As far as I am concerned, Moonflight and The Smallest Astronaut are companion pieces. They were out about the same time and accomplished the same thing.

[kennetzel]

@garageband66 I did post the Smallest Astronaut. Just check my uploded videos. I put pics of the Apollo and Snoopy Moon related pics. As far as I am concerned, Moonflight and The Smallest Astronaut are companion pieces. They were out about the same time and accomplished the same thing.

[KatradioNY]

Happy Moonlanding Everybody on this the 40th anniversary! Vic Venue could very well have been an astronaut..instead..he was one of the best DJ's ever!

Thanks for posting garageband66!

[garageband66]

I was wondering if anyone would view this song on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.

[RedVynil]

Break-ins are NOT songs. They are comedy.

[audiovisionary]

WOW! I have racked my brain for years trying to remember who did this and now I know. Kept thinking it was Dickie G but could never find it there. This was a favorite on the AM radio for me back then.

I guess I liked that it had a lot of the Buddha songs in the production. I had many of the same songs in my 45 collection. So glad to finally hear it again and finally know who it was and the name of it. thank you for sharing.

[garageband66]

That's why I do this.

[RedVynil]

It has nothing BUT Buddah songs. Quite a few labels did break-ins using only songs from their own labels.

[KatradioNY]

Jack Spector was also a WMCA Good Guy and worked at all the heavy hitter radio stations in New York. He also did a weekly show on the legendary pirate station..Radio Caroline. What was to be his last..WHLI on Long Island. Jack passed while on the air..doing what he did so well. I was lucky to have called him..friend. A radio genius..people lover..joke teller..sweet and gentle man. Jack Spector's closing was: "Look Out Street..Here I Come". RIP

[garageband66]

WOW! Look out indeed!

Thanks for sharing.

[katesgram]

We had this record when I was a kid- haven't heard it in years- thanks for posting it.

[garageband66]

My pleasure.

[07504201963]

sweet face.

[MadameLil]

Yeah, I get it: all the snippets were from artists on the Buddha label. Thanks for posting!

[garageband66]

Thanks for the view!

[cutlasjohn25]

Thanks for the post of this long lost ditty. I have the 45 of this song and never thought it would appear on YouTube. Thanks for the surprise.. John

[garageband66]

I do my best!

[cutlasjohn25]

you definately are doing a GREAT job. Keep it up.

[joto1957]

What a GREAT job on this video. I was the road manager and Manager of the "Ohio Express" in the late 70s through the early 90s. THANKS for the Video! WOW this brings back a lot of great memories! Those were the days!!

[garageband66]

They toured through the early 90's? Was that as a solo thing or like a part of an ensamble package? Like the Happy Together tours.

[RedVynil]

Was it the Ohio Express or the 1910 Fruitgum Co. that would come out on stage with music stands and play a bit of one of their bubblegum hits while reading the sheet music for it, and then toss it off stage and say, "Enough of that shit!", and then play harder rocking stuff for the rest of the show?

[DAYANKEES45]

I have this record jack was a great guy and my father-in-law

[garageband66]

Where have all the great DJ's gone? Radio needs them back.

[RedVynil]

No such beast anymore, sad to say! Radio today is all corporate! You only play what they tell you to play and it's all on a computer. They don't even use records anymore. DJ's today won't even tell you what songs they just played! However, in most cases, we don't NEED to know, because it's all the same 12 records they've been playing 24/7 for the past 30 years.

[MrArtVandelay]

I met Jack a few times in the late 60's. He invited me up to WMCA studios and gave me a stack of 45's. He was very kind to me. I remember him always chewing gum and he had some sort of eye problem. What a real great guy. I'm sure your familiy misses him as we do.

[RedVynil]

Cool!! Maybe you can fill in a few connections here and there for me as far as the break-ins he was involved in. I know of two of them, both on Buddah. I'm writing a book on break-ins.

[solarvegan]

This is the best piece of memorabilia I've ever unearthed on YouTube! I just saw this song listed on one of the Top 25 surveys on the WMCA website and proceeded to Google the song, wondering if, by some outside chance, I might hear it. And there it was -- on YouTube. This brings back my favorite era of music because DJ Jack Spector included songs that I just never hear anymore anywhere and were exclusive to 1969. Such an inspired and wonderful job! Thank you! Thank you so much for this!

[garageband66]

Thank you very much for your comment and you are welcome for the post.

[Rollin558]

Great to hear the great Jack Spector again. He was one of the true classy NYC DJ's way back when. Thanks for the post.

[garageband66]

Glad to do it! Radio is a wasteland now. Too much corporate crap and so impersonal now.

[rslitman]

Buddah was known as a "bubble gum" music label, but they had some soul/r&b acts, too, on a sister label called Curtom. That's how Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions got at least one snippet in this recording. Later, other soul acts recorded directly for Buddah, the most prominent being Gladys Knight and the Pips.

[garageband66]

True! But that logo looked so cool spinning on a 45!

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

Curtom was Curtis Mayfield's label (his estate administers its catalog today). Buddah distributed the label from 1969 to 1974, when it switched distribution to Warner Bros. (and later in the decade, the disco label RSO); Gladys Knight and the Pips signed with Buddah in 1973. The Trammps (of "Disco Inferno" fame) recorded for Buddah at this time, as did Lou Christie and Paul Anka. There were the Super K and Kama Sutra divisions releasing a fair share of Top 100 singles too.

[garageband66]

Thnaks for sharing! It's nice to have more background information on the subsidaries of the major lables.

[RedVynil]

And all were a part of MGM Records.

[rslitman]

The first artist I ever saw on a label called Kama Sutra was the Lovin' Spoonful. The Kama Sutra records said that they were a part of MGM. When Zal Yanovsky left that group, he put out a record in 1967 called "As Long As You're Here". It was the 1st record I ever saw on the Buddah label, and I wondered why he didn't continue on Kama Sutra. Then I saw that Buddah was part of Kama Sutra. About 3-6 months later, the first so-called Buddah "bubblegum" records started appearing.

[RedVynil]

I've heard Super K music on other labels (Laurie, Bell, Kapp) before Kama Sutra came along. I have a Kapp single with the Kama Sutra logo on it!

The first Buddah album was by Captain Beefheart; the first single was a novelty by the Mulberry Street Band.

Lou Christie used to be on MGM for some of his bigger hits, then he switched over to Buddah, too! Neil Bogart was a bigwig at Cameo-Parkway before Buddah started and very likely brought The Ohio Express and Chubby Checker with him to Buddah.

[rslitman]

The Critters recorded for Kapp (one of the labels owned by MCA), but in the 1990s, I learned that they were actually produced by Kama Sutra Productions, which I figured was probably related to Kama Sutra records. I didn't hear the Critters on the radio until several months after I started noticing Lovin' Spoonful releases on Kama Sutra. The Critters later moved to a label called Project 3 (run by Enoch Light, I think), but they didn't have any more hits after this move.

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

Correct on both counts. Kama Sutra was originally just a production outfit until Art Kass and Neil Bogart (who had just left the sinking ship known as Cameo-Parkway) cut that MGM distribution deal.

And yes, Project 3 was Enoch Light's operation formed after he had sold Command Records to ABC-Paramount in 1959.

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

@RedVynil : Only Kama Sutra was pressed and distributed by MGM Records (I should know--I'm currently collecting Lovin' Spoonful singles). And to answer your other posts...Buddah only distributed T-Neck (Isley Brothers) and Hot Wax (part of Holland-Dozier-Holland's Invictus/Hot Wax group; the trio own that label's masters today).

[RedVynil]

I've got Buddahs and MGMs that look like they were pressed by the same people. If you look at the print on the spines of albums on any of those labels, they all look exactly alike.

There were over a dozen Buddah subsidiary labels. Super K, T-Neck, Hot Wax, Cobblestone, Ze, Pavillion, Brut, Natural Resources (or National something or other, I can't recall the 2nd word, but one of those labels was a Motown sub, I just don't remember which one) and others. In later years, Kama Sutra became Sutra.

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

Buddah/Kama Sutra and MGM used the same pressing plants in those days.

The Kama Sutra label was retired in 1975 after its only remaining star, Charlie Daniels, left for Epic.

Art Kass relaunched Kama Sutra as Sutra Records in 1983 (that label's biggest success--literally and figuratively--was the novelty rap act The Fat Boys, whose first several albums were on that label before moving on to PolyGram in 1987).

[RedVynil]

Cool! Thanks for the info.

[RedVynil]

Yeah, in the early `70's, during the Jackson 5 era, Neil Bogart started getting into soul and away from Bubblegum. Most of the `70's Buddah out put was soul. T Neck and Hot Wax were other soul labels in the Buddah family.

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

Neil Bogart would leave Buddah in 1973 to start Casablanca Records. Art Kass, his partner, kept Buddah going until 1978 when it was sold to Arista (it managed to remain alive until at least 1981). Kass acquired the masters in 1984 and leased them ito an outfit called Pair International for distribution in the late Eighties until BMG bought him out for good in 1994.

[RedVynil]

Yes, this is true. And more subs came from Casablanca. Chocolate City was one of them.

Neil's been dead for a while, but I have no idea what happened to Art.

I've even got a Super K production on White Whale! Artie Resnick started another band in the early `70's called, Professor Morrison's Lollipop. The one single I have by them comes complete with a flip side that is the exact same thing as the A-side, but it plays backwards, the old standard Buddah bubblegum B-side trick.

[rslitman]

Professor Morrison's Lollipop's single "You Got the Love" came out around 1968 on White Whale. A White Whale anthology CD I have does indeed say that this label had made an agreement with Super K.

[RedVynil]

Well, there ya go, then. The one I have is called, "Angela", the backwards version on the flip side is called, "Duba Duba Do". I recently saw another White Whale PML single on eBay, but, either I missed it, or someone else outbid me for it. It may have been the one you just mentioned.

[rpurcell78]

I love this video! My cousin is a member of the 1910 Fruitgum Company. I never seen this video before--THANKS!

[garageband66]

My pleaseure!

It's amazing all the folks that are either former band members responding or someone who is related to a band member.

[RedVynil]

Groovy! Ask your cousin if it was his band that would start playing bubblegum on stage with sheet music, then toss it away and play harder rock for the rest of the show.

[chgochgo]

I had this record. LOL

[garageband66]

Me too, still do.

[RedVynil]

I've got both Vic/Vik Venus records.