18 Facts About Dickie Goodman

Richard Dorian Goodman, known as Dickie Goodman, was an American music and record producer born in Brooklyn, New York.

Dickie Goodman 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.

Dickie Goodman wrote and produced some original material, most often heard on the B-sides of his break-in records.

Dickie Goodman died from suicide by gunshot on December 6,1989.

The song "The Flying Saucer" was officially released under the artist name "Buchanan and Dickie Goodman" and was Dickie Goodman's highest-charting single on Billboard, peaking at No 3.

In 1962, Dickie Goodman spoofed Ben Casey with "Ben Crazy".

In 1964, Dickie Goodman decided to try something different: rather than his usual "break-in" records, he recorded an entire album of parodies called My Son the Joke.

The title was a take-off of the then-highly popular Allan Sherman records; unlike Sherman, Dickie Goodman's material was much more risque and failed to chart.

Mr Dickie Goodman sang one track on the record, and produced two break-in style pieces, with Susan singing the rest of the songs.

In 1969, Dickie Goodman parodied the political unrest on college campuses with "On Campus" and the first moon landing with "Luna Trip".

Dickie Goodman's records inspired KQV morning disc jockey Bob DeCarlo to cut his own sample-spliced top 10 hit "Convention '72" as by the Delegates.

Dickie Goodman failed to chart with a different version of "Mr President" in 1981 after Ronald Reagan became president.

An unusual act Dickie Goodman produced was the Glass Bottle; Dickie Goodman created the band primarily as an advertising ploy to promote actual glass bottles, which were going out of fashion due to soda companies beginning to use plastic bottles.

Altogether, Dickie Goodman charted seventeen hits, with five of them reaching the top 40.

Dickie Goodman produced several other break-in records which garnered airplay and charted only in regional areas, usually Los Angeles and New York City, but in a few other areas as well.

Dickie Goodman died in North Carolina from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Dickie Goodman is survived by his two sons, Jon and Jed, and his daughter Janie.

The book, which contains the most comprehensive chronology of Dickie Goodman's records, including CD re-releases, is still available and in print.