About Dickie Goodman
Richard Dorian “Dickie” Goodman (April 19, 1934 – November 6, 1989) was an American musician and record producer. He is best known for inventing and using the technique of the "break-in", an early precursor to sampling, that used brief clips of popular records and songs to "answer" comedic questions posed by voice actors on his novelty records. He also wrote and produced some original material, most often heard on the B-sides of his break-in records. == Career == In June 1956, in partnership with Bill Buchanan, Dickie Goodman made his first hit record, "The Flying Saucer Parts 1 & 2", a take-off of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. This recording was the subject of a copyright infringement case against Goodman. The court ruled that his sampled mix was a parody and thus an entirely new work. The single peaked at No. 3 on Billboard and was Goodman's highest-charting single. Since Part 2 was on the B side of the vinyl record, Disc Jockeys had to flip the record over to complete the broadcast of the two tracks. Hence the recording(s) best known as simply, "The Flying Saucer." While other famous music artists have charted flip sides of records containing a completely different and separate song, it was extremely rare to chart with two sides of a record with it only being considered as one on the charts etc.
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