National Lampoon - Magical Misery Tour (National Lampoon Radio Dinner) (1972)

National Lampoon Radio Dinner is a comedy album from National Lampoon that was first released in 1972. The humor on the album was very much steeped in the pop culture of the era and includes such subjects as game shows ("Catch It and You Keep"), the 1972 presidential election ("Profiles in Chrome" - where the U.S polictial party Democrats nominate a Pontiac GTO to run for office while then U.S 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 a Joan Baez protest song parody "Pull the Tregros").

The latter subject also includes several references and sketches about the solo careers of the former members of The Beatles. These include "Teenyrap" (two teenagers discussing George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh), references to Paul McCartney's single "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" (where a Irish tenor begins to sing the song and is repeatedly shot), the "Paul is Dead" hoax, "Magical Misery Tour (Bootleg Record)" - a John Lennon parody of the personal songwriting found on the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album (the lyrics were lifted from his famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview). Melissa Manchester made a brief speaking appearance as "Yoko Ono" on the track.

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[notvalidcharacters]

@Vidiot2005 No I think the speed is right, but the missing portion is inexcusable. Sounds rather like the tonearm skipped and the recordist was asleep at the switch. I believe the lyrics come almost verbatim from a Lennon interview in Rolling Stone around that time.

When I first heard this in '72 and it got to out of the middle 8 and back into the "Me auntie" verse, it was just so over the top I completely lost it. Never laughed so hard in my life.

[1widdleweasel]

dont censor if youre going to upload

[Vidiot2005]

It's awful because it's at THE WRONG SPEED. The other posting elsewhere is at the right speed.

[finylvinyl66]

They allow the F word but not "Mick Jagger with his stupid faggot dancing." PC I guess.

But this is brilliant, as is the rest of the album which a couple of friends at college and I

played a a lot around 1972. Most of the cuts are available here and almost all are great.

[poppaculture]

I find it interesting that this piece was edited at :46 , or perhaps it was just an odd "skip" in the record.

[peejay1954]

peejay1954 here, I too had this on a cassette, played over and over in my Pinto with my Buddies Lonergan & Gentile, while getting ripped on Santa Marta Gold, Summer of 76 was awesome ! Ever heara "Childs Garden of Grass"?

[bjbrooks1956]

Reminds me of head wiping back my hair while rolling a joint in the parking lot of King-Kwick in my 1969 Nova fast-back while my girlfriend is in the store buying us cigarettes because I'm too fuckin paranoid.

[prinzonyx1]

Had this album years ago!  Loved it then, love it now