Dickie Goodman Lyrics

The ability to easily take a song, sample a bit of it, and then cut-and-paste it – just as you do with words and sentences in a word processor – has given birth to a fad called "mashups." More than 45 years ago, Dickie Goodman had a similar idea. He would take bits of songs – often songs that were beginning to climb the charts – and with a grease pencil and a razor blade, cut them up and give them new meaning.He would string together bits of music with a voice narration – usually a reporter at a mock press conference – and use these musical cues from popular songs to provide the sarcastic "answers" to his setup questions.His son Jon Goodman writes about his father's gift fo... read more