Watergrate
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Watergrate is a novelty
single by Dickie Goodman
released on Rainy Wednesday Records in 1973. Goodman got the idea for the label name after looking outside one day. He noticed that it was raining and that it was a Wednesday.
The record itself is a parody of the 1973 Watergate scandal
. The record was #42 in the singles charts, and received a fair amount of radio airplay that year.
Novelty song
A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect. Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs. The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music. The other two divisions...
single by Dickie Goodman
Dickie Goodman
Richard Dorian "Dickie" Goodman was an American music producer.-Career:In June 1956 Goodman created his first record, "The Flying Saucer", which he co-wrote with his partner Bill Buchanan, and featured a four-minute rewriting of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio show...
released on Rainy Wednesday Records in 1973. Goodman got the idea for the label name after looking outside one day. He noticed that it was raining and that it was a Wednesday.
The record itself is a parody of the 1973 Watergate scandal
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement...
. The record was #42 in the singles charts, and received a fair amount of radio airplay that year.
Songs
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