70s radio mashup question

November 19, 2014 8:55 PM

What were these called (if indeed they were called something), and where can I find out more about them? (Note that the video here has been retrofitted onto a 70s radio single.) I loved them as a 70s kid (they were pretty popular for a couple of years), and now I find them adorably stupid and kind of fascinating for some reason. Certainly not because they are clever.
posted by Camofrog to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Response by poster: Let me add for context that these things aired on Top 40 stations in the 70s, bizarre as that must seem to many younger MeFites.
posted by Camofrog at 8:58 PM on November 19, 2014

Best answer: I used to hear these on Dr. Demento all the time. Looks like that one is a thing that Dickie Goodman did and there's a list of all the songs that are sampled in it. In the Wikipedia article they call it "break-in" music sampling
posted by jessamyn at 9:05 PM on November 19, 2014 [3 favorites]

Response by poster: So there's a Wikipedia article for just about everything now! I didn't even think to check there. We Americans sure have a lot of time on our hands.
posted by Camofrog at 9:14 PM on November 19, 2014 [1 favorite]

In the old days, radio programmers sometimes called them "flying saucer records," after the original cited on Wikipedia.
posted by Flexagon at 11:33 AM on November 20, 2014 [1 favorite]