Great to hear this again, a fond childhood memory. One striking thing -- it is *very* funny, but the humor is never mean-spirited. That's a change in our culture that is not really progress.
This is just simply AWESOME!!! Thank you for posting...havent heard this since I was a child. I saw where copies of this were going for 300 bucks on Ebay...ouch!
@Jeff98177 This LP's been a staple of garage sales and flea markets for years. You can pick up a copy almost any weekend for $1 or less. Ebay usually has a load of them. I was lucky enough to sell volumes 1 & 2 for $10 on Ebay a few years back.
My parents had this album and we listened to it in the early 70s and my Dad explained the jokes to my older brother and he would explain it to us. Then he learned to do imitations of all of them! "Family ,Family, Family...Jack, there's just too much family"
My parents had this album and we listened to it in the early 70s and my Dad explained the jokes to my older brother and he would explain it to us. Then he learned to do imitations of all of them!
My parents had this album. I listened to it in the 70s when I was a kid and didn't get most of the jokes. It's really interesting to hear it now, after having learned about the Kennedys in school. The jokes make more sense now. Great stuff.
This is pretty funny, and fun to listen to. I was born in the early '70s, but my family adored JFK. They passed that admiration down to me. For an album of this nature to have been so very popular, and to have won a Grammy for album of the year, speaks volumes, both about the times, and the affection the country had for the Kennedys.
I was just telling somebody about the skit "Tell him ... it's tomorrow night." Then I found this ... the old brain cells recalled it pretty well (though I'd forgotten it was Caroline who makes the final announcement), considering I hadn't heard it in 48 years!
I loved this so much. Haven't heard it in probably 40 years or so. I still have big parts of it memorized by heart. We played the record till it wore out. RN
my mother had this in her collection (along with a lot of jazz LPs, pop albums and even some blue Redd Foxx records). I must have listened to it 1,000 times in the mid-1970s. I miss those days. Man, what memories.
I remember my parents playing this album. Maybe two or three times total. I found an almost pristine copy in my album collection. I had forgotten it entirely. I imagine that after Kennedy was killed my parents just never got it out again.
I have no way to play it now, so thank you for posting this! It really is funny, even today.
I remember my parents playing this album. Maybe two or three times total. I found an almost pristine copy in my album collection. I had forgotten it entirely. I imagine that after Kennedy was killed my parents just never got it out again.
I have no way to play it now, so thank you for posting this! It really is funny, even today.
We had this album when I was a kid. I know parts of it by heart, and haven't heard it in 47 years. This and Allan Sherman's album, my son the folk singer.
When JFK died, the Vaughn Meader album was like a terrible thing to have in the house, antithetical. But in February 64, The Beatles came and saved us from our misery.
Meader really 'got' JFK. And beyond the obvious humor inherent in the distinct characters who skyrocketed in public sphere during the Kennedy presidency, this is pretty funny material.
Meader was clearly very talented so his 'fall' after JFK's assassination may be related more to the anguish so many people felt that was transferred, unfairly, to Meader. Sad, sad, sad, all around.
Bought this original album which came out October 22, 1962. Spoof on JFK which is a riot and just love it. Wondering if there is any value to this album.
Everything I know about early 60's politics and world leaders, I learned from this album. I was born in '60, and didn't realize that people stopped listening to this record after Dallas. I knew this album cold, along with David Frye's "I am the President," which took Richard Nixon to task. Multiple listenings and mimicry got me started as a voice actor. If you listen to Mayor Quimby on "The Simpsons," Dan Castellaneta is basically doing Vaughn Meader doing JFK, which I think is just brilliant.
The David Frye album...that was when I was in college. Haven't heard that in 35 years. I remember parts by heart, I think. "This morning, it was my sad duty to fire 1300.......... of the finest public servants..." and " I accept full responsibility...but not the blame. Let me explain the difference.... people who are to blame....lose their jobs. People who are responsible....do not."
@AmberDelta i liked when David Frye would do LBJ . He would do him in a speech saying " and my two semi-beautiful daughter. i still have the album he has headphones on. Drohegda
Well, I'a always liked imitating Vaughn ...ah JFK ....and I'a memorized the lines from this a' album..which my'a parents had. Unfortunately, thee'a album is now'a rather scrathy. So I am'a happy to find it here'a on YouTube.
This album,on the Cadence record label,was removed from retail outlets after JFK's assassination,by order of the album's two producers and the label's president. They all ordered all unsold copies destroyed. Many believed the album would mock the memory of JFK,including your parents,supposively. I was born after JFK's death(in 1971),I have this album myself which originally was my late maternal grandfather's. I kept it because not only is it obsolete,but to remember him.
In order to finally get to the president and make the simple announcement that the Malayan ambassador was at the door, it took 5 to 6 messengers. Now, the same messengers will have to go back again with a simple message. I suppose there is an ounce of humor in that JFK doesn't go and greet the ambassador himself. Now that I explained it, it isn't funny anymore. Oh well.
Sad listening to this because you really want to laugh at it. Knowing what would eventually happen to JFK makes that painful. One can only wonder how we would remember him if he were allowed to grow old.
Vaughn Meader pretty much pledged not to do the JFK bit after Dallas, but he did have his picture and an article in Rolling Stone in '78 as he started to play small clubs again. (He was a very talented musician) He was doing a song called, "Gettin' Ready for Teddy," as the younger Kennedy was thought to have a shot at the White House during that particular era. A friend of mine later saw him play a little Florida club in the Tampa area during the late '90s.
"Jackie" sound dangerously like Marilyn Monroe, so the comment "Would you stand, please?" has sexual undertones.
I don't know much about this guy, as I'm a Brit, but I bet he felt a bit more than just grief on 22 November 1963. He must have been really pissed at losing his meal ticket.
Indeed he was. Meader's career went in the tank when JFK died and he spiraled down into depression and drugs. His son, Darmon, is a jazz vocalist and saxophonist and songwriter in NYC....very talented musician.
About 5 years ago, I found a mint condition copy of this album in a used book store and couldn't believe I came across it. I had heard about this guy and a little about this record and his career, so I just had to get it and I've listened to it many times.....funny, funny stuff.
Tears to my eyes! I remember this from '62 as a kid. My sister and I laughed and laughed. Poor LP was scratched to the point we could play only a minute or so without it skipping or repeating.
Audrienne, thank you so much for posting. My late father was a huge fan of this LP, and we got to love it as kids, in our holiday home in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland. Superb sound quality, great nostalgia. Wonderful. KJ.
audrienne thanks for posting i have vol 2 in my hands and just as funny . thanks for the memories !! vaughan meader passed away lst year . kennedys assanation brings back memories of my youth i was 12 whenhe was asaainated so many memorie as a kid watching tv !! god it was likeit was yesterday what a tragedy!! , thanks again!!
I haven't heard this album since I was 11 in 1963. Thanks so much for posting this. I brings back fond memories of President Kennedy when things were happier before 11-22-1963.
My First Family 1 album is probably kinda scratchy too. I see Amazon has 1 and 2 on a single CD, in mono (as opposed to stereo). One person complained about the "flat" audio quality. but regardless, would sure love to hear that second album!
I just read on Wiki that this album was recorded the night where Kennedy gave his Cuban Missile Crisis speech. Meader later said that he doubted the audience would have reacted the way they had on the album had they known what was going on.
I also had and still have this album. Mine, however, would not be pleasant to listen to due to excessive scratches. How did you keep yours so clean for over 40 years? There are no scratches to be heard.
You had to be alive then. HYETERICAL!
jannethPMA 1 month ago
Great to hear this again, a fond childhood memory. One striking thing -- it is *very* funny, but the humor is never mean-spirited. That's a change in our culture that is not really progress.
palisadesk 2 months ago
This is just simply AWESOME!!! Thank you for posting...havent heard this since I was a child. I saw where copies of this were going for 300 bucks on Ebay...ouch!
SydbarF 2 months ago
I remember the nuns actually played this in the classrooms for us to listen to. Being the first Catholic president was a real big deal to us
inkey2 3 months ago
I found this record in an antique store several years ago. I imagine a lot of people got rid of their copies after the assassination.
Jeff98177 4 months ago
@Jeff98177 This LP's been a staple of garage sales and flea markets for years. You can pick up a copy almost any weekend for $1 or less. Ebay usually has a load of them. I was lucky enough to sell volumes 1 & 2 for $10 on Ebay a few years back.
MBFLA45 3 months ago
My parents had this album and we listened to it in the early 70s and my Dad explained the jokes to my older brother and he would explain it to us. Then he learned to do imitations of all of them! "Family ,Family, Family...Jack, there's just too much family"
1105Chance 6 months ago
My parents had this album and we listened to it in the early 70s and my Dad explained the jokes to my older brother and he would explain it to us. Then he learned to do imitations of all of them!
1105Chance 6 months ago
ROFL at 4:44! When he does RFK's voice, I thought I was going to fall off this chair!
IwshIcldstrtover 6 months ago
Did I hear a Jimmy Hoffa reference?
Simplisticification 6 months ago
My parents had this album. I listened to it in the 70s when I was a kid and didn't get most of the jokes. It's really interesting to hear it now, after having learned about the Kennedys in school. The jokes make more sense now. Great stuff.
mk41794 7 months ago
Boy, the things you find on Youtube...we used to have this album. I haven't heard this since I was 9 years old
freak49 7 months ago
i used to listen to this all the time as a kid its hilarious
ricksears98 7 months ago
Hey! The Waltons stole their "Good night, John-Boy" shtick from this album!
Fersomling 8 months ago
This is pretty funny, and fun to listen to. I was born in the early '70s, but my family adored JFK. They passed that admiration down to me. For an album of this nature to have been so very popular, and to have won a Grammy for album of the year, speaks volumes, both about the times, and the affection the country had for the Kennedys.
snoops71 8 months ago
Jackie hated this, but JFK at the least was amused by it.
maxpowers518 8 months ago
My dad had this album.
Thanks for sharing this.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 9 months ago
classic comedy album! purchased 2 copies of this album for $1.00
good condition no scratches! these are sadly not produced these
days great collection of voices, on this record!
FidelCastro128 9 months ago
best selling album in late '62, still have it.
luviananna 11 months ago
The Maylaian ambassador for "Dinnh"..TOO FUNNY!!!
firestar1075 11 months ago
I was just telling somebody about the skit "Tell him ... it's tomorrow night." Then I found this ... the old brain cells recalled it pretty well (though I'd forgotten it was Caroline who makes the final announcement), considering I hadn't heard it in 48 years!
Thanks for posting it.
markhoh 11 months ago
This is FUNNY! And the gal playing Jackie - haha ha ha haaa!
louisa1832 1 year ago
Such great fun! I wish that we could have fun parodies like this today of Bush or Obama. This is funny and not mean in anyway.
dh1267 1 year ago
@dh1267 We do. The Capitol Steps do fantastic parodies. No one is safe-- they parody the Dems, the GOP, TSA and anyone else ho might hit the news.
socalquilter0401 7 months ago
I loved this so much. Haven't heard it in probably 40 years or so. I still have big parts of it memorized by heart. We played the record till it wore out. RN
Angryrnmedic 1 year ago
this is too funny! i love it.
R.I.P. JFK
27lilmisssunshine 1 year ago
Have this one in album form. It has the typical scratches.
jrwel14 1 year ago
my mother had this in her collection (along with a lot of jazz LPs, pop albums and even some blue Redd Foxx records). I must have listened to it 1,000 times in the mid-1970s. I miss those days. Man, what memories.
GregDad100 1 year ago
Thanks for the memories. Meader was hilarious without the malice of many of today's impressionists.
krystallamp 1 year ago
I remember my parents playing this album. Maybe two or three times total. I found an almost pristine copy in my album collection. I had forgotten it entirely. I imagine that after Kennedy was killed my parents just never got it out again.
I have no way to play it now, so thank you for posting this! It really is funny, even today.
jward199 1 year ago
I remember my parents playing this album. Maybe two or three times total. I found an almost pristine copy in my album collection. I had forgotten it entirely. I imagine that after Kennedy was killed my parents just never got it out again.
I have no way to play it now, so thank you for posting this! It really is funny, even today.
jward199 1 year ago
I found two copies of this album at a used record store after years of a friend telling me about it. One for me, and I gave the other copy to him.
cougarxr797 1 year ago
I picked this up as a teenager in 197..errr the year is not important..I laughed my butt off
captblackeagle 1 year ago
We had this album when I was a kid. I know parts of it by heart, and haven't heard it in 47 years. This and Allan Sherman's album, my son the folk singer.
When JFK died, the Vaughn Meader album was like a terrible thing to have in the house, antithetical. But in February 64, The Beatles came and saved us from our misery.
AmberDelta 1 year ago
Meader really 'got' JFK. And beyond the obvious humor inherent in the distinct characters who skyrocketed in public sphere during the Kennedy presidency, this is pretty funny material.
Meader was clearly very talented so his 'fall' after JFK's assassination may be related more to the anguish so many people felt that was transferred, unfairly, to Meader. Sad, sad, sad, all around.
Thanks for posting this trip down memory lane.
YouzTube99 1 year ago
Bought this original album which came out October 22, 1962. Spoof on JFK which is a riot and just love it. Wondering if there is any value to this album.
AccentLoverBritish 1 year ago
Everything I know about early 60's politics and world leaders, I learned from this album. I was born in '60, and didn't realize that people stopped listening to this record after Dallas. I knew this album cold, along with David Frye's "I am the President," which took Richard Nixon to task. Multiple listenings and mimicry got me started as a voice actor. If you listen to Mayor Quimby on "The Simpsons," Dan Castellaneta is basically doing Vaughn Meader doing JFK, which I think is just brilliant.
hibob418 1 year ago
@hibob418
The David Frye album...that was when I was in college. Haven't heard that in 35 years. I remember parts by heart, I think. "This morning, it was my sad duty to fire 1300.......... of the finest public servants..." and " I accept full responsibility...but not the blame. Let me explain the difference.... people who are to blame....lose their jobs. People who are responsible....do not."
Peace. (Vote Quimby!)
AmberDelta 1 year ago
@AmberDelta i liked when David Frye would do LBJ . He would do him in a speech saying " and my two semi-beautiful daughter. i still have the album he has headphones on. Drohegda
drohegda 1 year ago
Oh...the memories this brings back, Thank You!!!
ZELPHOR 1 year ago
Well, I'a always liked imitating Vaughn ...ah JFK ....and I'a memorized the lines from this a' album..which my'a parents had. Unfortunately, thee'a album is now'a rather scrathy. So I am'a happy to find it here'a on YouTube.
marcostar57 1 year ago
Does the guy holding the pony look like Lee Harvey Oswald or am I imagining things . . .
angriffeins 2 years ago
Best part is at 3:50, "The rubber swan is MINE." lol
maxpowers518 2 years ago
The JFK assassination also killed Meader's career.
maxpowers518 2 years ago
Wow I haven't heard this this since 63. After JFK died, my parents removed it from our house, saying it was in bad taste to listen to it again.
I remember hearing the JFK heard this record and liked it. You never could do anything like this today.
nealbfinn 2 years ago 9
This album,on the Cadence record label,was removed from retail outlets after JFK's assassination,by order of the album's two producers and the label's president. They all ordered all unsold copies destroyed. Many believed the album would mock the memory of JFK,including your parents,supposively. I was born after JFK's death(in 1971),I have this album myself which originally was my late maternal grandfather's. I kept it because not only is it obsolete,but to remember him.
arhuxtable 1 year ago
@nealbfinn You must be joking, the entire presidential parody business launched from this album.
The sad part is that Vaughn Meader hardly ever worked again, his career was destroyed after the assassination.
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"tell him it's tomorrow night"- I don't get it.
AmericanPie37 2 years ago
In order to finally get to the president and make the simple announcement that the Malayan ambassador was at the door, it took 5 to 6 messengers. Now, the same messengers will have to go back again with a simple message. I suppose there is an ounce of humor in that JFK doesn't go and greet the ambassador himself. Now that I explained it, it isn't funny anymore. Oh well.
sveatch40 2 years ago
Sad listening to this because you really want to laugh at it. Knowing what would eventually happen to JFK makes that painful. One can only wonder how we would remember him if he were allowed to grow old.
AgaMbadi 2 years ago 2
He could have run for President again.
MisterCosco 2 years ago
Vaughn Meader pretty much pledged not to do the JFK bit after Dallas, but he did have his picture and an article in Rolling Stone in '78 as he started to play small clubs again. (He was a very talented musician) He was doing a song called, "Gettin' Ready for Teddy," as the younger Kennedy was thought to have a shot at the White House during that particular era. A friend of mine later saw him play a little Florida club in the Tampa area during the late '90s.
hibob418 2 years ago
I'm old enuff to remember him- he was huge 61-63; when JFK was killed, he was never heard of again.
bobzani 2 years ago
"Jackie" sound dangerously like Marilyn Monroe, so the comment "Would you stand, please?" has sexual undertones.
I don't know much about this guy, as I'm a Brit, but I bet he felt a bit more than just grief on 22 November 1963. He must have been really pissed at losing his meal ticket.
cbak12sg 2 years ago
Indeed he was. Meader's career went in the tank when JFK died and he spiraled down into depression and drugs. His son, Darmon, is a jazz vocalist and saxophonist and songwriter in NYC....very talented musician.
nealbfinn 2 years ago
About 5 years ago, I found a mint condition copy of this album in a used book store and couldn't believe I came across it. I had heard about this guy and a little about this record and his career, so I just had to get it and I've listened to it many times.....funny, funny stuff.
tcbluecollarguy 2 years ago
Tears to my eyes! I remember this from '62 as a kid. My sister and I laughed and laughed. Poor LP was scratched to the point we could play only a minute or so without it skipping or repeating.
Thank you!
budgiekiller2 2 years ago
I still have my original LP
jjgriffinjr 2 years ago
This was the craziest thing I heard it years ago: Vaughn Meade had JFK down cold.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago 9
Audrienne, thank you so much for posting. My late father was a huge fan of this LP, and we got to love it as kids, in our holiday home in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland. Superb sound quality, great nostalgia. Wonderful. KJ.
OforOboe 3 years ago
I haven't heard this LP in years...thanks for posting.
rraab 3 years ago
I am only 32yrs old but I managed to inherit this great piece of vinyl...I was floating around the firmament of Argarta !!!!! Or something.
geoshelewis 3 years ago
audrienne thanks for posting i have vol 2 in my hands and just as funny . thanks for the memories !! vaughan meader passed away lst year . kennedys assanation brings back memories of my youth i was 12 whenhe was asaainated so many memorie as a kid watching tv !! god it was likeit was yesterday what a tragedy!! , thanks again!!
gary52car 3 years ago
My brother and I would laugh our ass off to this when we were kids. I'll have a chicken sandwich with a live chicken
stwla888 3 years ago
i've had several copies of this album pass through my hands, but i don't own one at the moment. many thanks for uploading it!
is there somewhere i could get the audio as mp3s?
babyshamblesx 3 years ago
I haven't heard this album since I was 11 in 1963. Thanks so much for posting this. I brings back fond memories of President Kennedy when things were happier before 11-22-1963.
Cleveland Ohio
wilmcnam 3 years ago 3
'Would you please identify yourself?'
'I am your wife'
Lolcano!
funkypunkno2 3 years ago
My First Family 1 album is probably kinda scratchy too. I see Amazon has 1 and 2 on a single CD, in mono (as opposed to stereo). One person complained about the "flat" audio quality. but regardless, would sure love to hear that second album!
THANK YOU so much for posting this!
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summerrose34 3 years ago
You're welcome. The entire two albums have been uploaded.
Audriene 3 years ago
I just read on Wiki that this album was recorded the night where Kennedy gave his Cuban Missile Crisis speech. Meader later said that he doubted the audience would have reacted the way they had on the album had they known what was going on.
airdriver 3 years ago
I also had and still have this album. Mine, however, would not be pleasant to listen to due to excessive scratches. How did you keep yours so clean for over 40 years? There are no scratches to be heard.
ronaldt491 3 years ago
I never had the original, I'm only 25. It came from a digital copy.
Audriene 3 years ago
We had this album when I was a kid. The whole family enjoyed it. Thank You for posting it.
caw1 3 years ago
You're welcome. I'm going to post the rest soon.
Audriene 3 years ago