Radio Dinner

About Radio Dinner

National Lampoon Radio Dinner is a comedy album from National Lampoon that was first released in 1972. The humor on the album was steeped in the pop culture of the era and includes such subjects as game shows ("Catch It and You Keep It"), the 1972 presidential election ("Profiles in Chrome", where the Democrats nominate a Pontiac GTO to run for office while then-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 "Pull the Tregros", a parody of Joan Baez. The latter subject also includes several references and sketches about the solo careers of the former members of the Beatles. Among these are "Teenyrap", in which two teenagers discuss George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh; and "Magical Misery Tour (Bootleg Record)", a parody of John Lennon's primal therapy-inspired songwriting style, with its lyrics, including the repeated cry of "Genius is pain!", taken directly from Lennon's famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview. Melissa Manchester made a brief speaking appearance as "Yoko Ono" on the latter track. Other Beatles-related satire are references to Paul McCartney's single "Give Ireland Back to the Irish", where an Irish tenor begins to sing the song and is repeatedly shot, and the "Paul is Dead" hoax. more »