Dan Ingram, WABC New York, April 13, 1968 (scoped) (0:17:43)

Scoped
… tartar sauce made from real tartars …
[Description by Uncle Ricky]

Here is another off-the-air off-the-wall recording of Big Dan Ingram on a Saturday, and this time, it’s the Saturday before Easter Sunday. And, there is no decorum spared here, Big Dan is playing double gold on the double 7. On the unscoped version, the music has been restored to provide the actual buffering between Big Dan’s spontaneous performances.

He turns the Flying A spot into Flying Antics, and the New York Telephone Alone Phone sounds super. That’s one of the spots that survived completely, most of the rest, and the news, was mostly lost.

I feel we also missed an earlier gag here, as Dan keeps referencing scratchum or scratch ’em, I have no idea why or what it means (maybe it means nothing) but he uses it throughout this delightful sample of another wacky Saturday show.

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