Radio Dinner


National Lampoon Radio Dinner is a comedy album from National Lampoon that was first released in 1972. The humor on the album was steeped in the pop culture of the era and includes such subjects as game shows, the 1972 presidential election, and popular music parodies such as "Deteriorata" and "Pull the Tregros", a parody of Joan Baez.
The latter subject also includes several references and sketches about the solo careers of the former members of the Beatles. Among these are "Teenyrap", in which two teenagers discuss George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh; and "Magical Misery Tour ", a parody of John Lennon's primal therapy-inspired songwriting style, with its lyrics, including the repeated cry of "Genius is pain!", taken directly from Lennon's famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview. Melissa Manchester made a brief speaking appearance as "Yoko Ono" on the latter track. Other Beatles-related satire are references to Paul McCartney's single "Give Ireland Back to the Irish", where an Irish tenor begins to sing the song and is repeatedly shot, and the "Paul is Dead" hoax.
The album was originally set to be released on RCA Records, but the company balked at a track called "David and Julie", a highly off-color bit about David and Julie Eisenhower. National Lampoon refused to cut the piece and took the album to Blue Thumb instead, but were met with the same objection. Lampoon relented and the album was released without the offending bit.

Track listing

Side One

  1. Deteriorata
  2. Phono Phunnies
  3. Teenyrap
  4. It's Obvious
  5. Catch It and You Keep It
  6. 'Quinas 'n' 'Rasmus
  7. All Kidding Aside
  8. Phono Phunnies
  9. Teenyrap
  10. Magical Misery Tour

    Side Thirteen (Side Two)

  11. Those Fabulous Sixties
  12. Profiles in Chrome
  13. Teenyrap
  14. Phono Phunnies
  15. Pigeons
  16. Support Your Locol Polece
  17. Pull the Tregros
  18. Head Bands
  19. Phono Phunnies, Performed by Christopher Guest and Naomi R. Page
  20. Concert in Bangla Desh