Dickie Goodman is The King of Novelty, listed by Billboard and Guinness World Records for the most charted Novelty/Comedy hits (17) of all time, although he has even more listed under various pseudonyms, such as John & Ernest and Spencer & Spencer. Some of Dickie Goodman s most famous records are Mr. Jaws (#4 on Billboard, Gold Record), The Flying Saucer (#3 on Billboard and won a Grammy), Mr. President and Hey ET. His influence on popular culture continues today and his ranking on the charts is amongst the most notable comedians of all time; from Ray Stevens, with mostly regular songs to The Chipmunks who are Chipmunks, to Cheech & Chong who are simply elsewhere, to none other than Weird Al Yankovic. It s difficult to consider Weird Al s success without acknowledging the fact that Dickie broke ground for the clever novelty records Weird Al created! Dickie Goodman records have been called all sorts of things: novelty records, break-in records and he himself called them Flying Saucer records, but describing his records is even more fun. You can call them parody, satire, samples, cut-ins or mash ups; but the most common way to describe them is by narrating the record for someone until you get that familiar, oh yeah, I remember that one from when I was a kid. Dickie Goodman took bits and pieces of popular songs and used the tiny sound bites to fill in as answers to questions he posed in his records. But what kind of questions did he ask? And who was he asking? Well, that depended upon what the most popular current event of the day was and also who the most notable public figures were at the time. He might pretend to be a famous news reporter conducting an interview of a presidential candidate or the star of a current hit movie. Dickie Goodman records were always timely when first released... but their universal phenomenon would turn them into audio time capsules, summarizing the most talked about events, and music, of an era. His records would resonate with both kids and adults equally as well because he tapped into a unique way of providing comic relief and poignant commentary.