The Lake Lacking Living Standards And Sacks Of Shame

In fact, the host of TVs The Name's the Same, Clifton Fadiman released a single in the autumn of 1964 that just tickled the bottom of the UK top 200, but spent an astonishing 79 weeks on the US chart in 1970, called, "One of the Specimens Contained a Bromalite, a Fossilised Mass of Food Waste, Go-Go Get It, Baby."

But the most interesting thing about this single is the recording process deployed. It seems the host of TVs The Name's the Same, Clifton Fadiman had 2 separate orchestras positioned in separate studios, Esquivel-style, while he was not just in the next room, but several miles away, buried in a mini, reinforced survival box communicating in code over a possibly spotty connection to the operations base on the surface. The code was then translated and sent by morse-code to the code-reader in the studio who would in turn translate the morse code into sheet music onto the overhead projector in view of both orchestras. The process was hailed a great success.

R.D. Burman "Title Music from THE BURNING TRAIN" (buy)