I was at a party one time in NYC and w/o advance alert Pinky Winters came descending a spiral staircase lip sync-ing this---her recording of Flying Down to Rio on the stereo---with a mixing bowl and spatula whomping up a mess of Al Cohn brownies. I thought to myself, "My god, Bill, are you EVER in hipsville! This could never have happened to you back in West---by god---Virginia." This is the recording in question: Pinky, with Lou Levy on piano, and Rob Pronk cond. & arr. the Netherlands Metropole Orch. Don't try to buy this CD unless you've got a C note or two to spare.
How much less wuner'ful my adolescent years would have been w/o Mag Mag and Stan Freberg. The latter actually made watching TV commercials tol'able. Witness his immortal Heinz soup ad. He died this year at 88, but his dozens of great parody discs live on!
