As I was collecting some notes on this bit of treasure, I ran across a better quality copy of this parody of the NBC “We’re Proud” marketing campaign song. What’s posted here does not have the flaws present in my 30+ year old cassette dub.
The musicians are the same as on the “We’re Proud” version that aired on the NBC television network around 1980. The copy I had been storing was from a radio network feed that went out between a couple of early morning news and actuality feeds. The parody version was aired just once by Don Imus which prompted Fred Silverman to order the collection and destruction of all copies of this one minute of audio. The distribution was far too wide by then for this to happen.
A Google search of Fred Silverman will get you all the background if you don’t have your own memory of television in that era.
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