Papoon For President Papoon For President

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Recurring Characters:
George Papoon, George Tirebiter

Category: Audio
Firesign's reportage of the [in]famous National Surrealist Party Presidential candidate, and his VP running mate George Tirebiter, over the years. Culled from various sources, the album is bookended by two rare interviews with a pair of high-ranking Campoon Papoon staffers (Proctor & Bergman).

LINER NOTES:

(NOT INSANE! PAPOON FOR PRESIDENT!)
Papoon Campooners Peter Bergman and Phil Proctor
have a Firesign Chat with Steve Marshall (21:05)
 

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(PAPOON AND TIREBITER GET
    BIG BERKELEY WELCOME!)

On the Campoon Trail in 1976 with out Man in the Bag
and his Veep nominee George (Porgie) Tirebiter (7:30)

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(CANDIDATE STILL DAFFY! REAGAN BLASTS RATS!)
Jimmy Clicker reporting for Newt Oil about Daffy's dive in the
polls, plus great moments from the Gerald Ford Palm Springs
Golf-Rat Shoot Out between Teddy, Ronnie, and Jimme (6:52)

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The Firesign Theatre
Phil Austin, Peter Bergman,
David Ossman, Phil Proctor

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[2] "The Martian Space Party," words and
music © 1972 The Firesign Theatre,
(p)2002 The Firesign Theatre

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Music by Cyrus Faryar and the Firebelles.
Produced by Bill McIntyre.sign Theatre,
[3] Campoon '76 Archive radio news tape.

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(PAPOON NOMINATED! PRESIDENT OFF TO MARS!)
Simultaneous life coverage of both the Natural
Surrealist Party 1972 Convention and Glutamoto's
Monster Island attack on the Nix (4:35)

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("THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT!")
HST, LBJ, FDR, and Dick get rowdy together for cocktails
and maybe TV, ater-hours in the White House library (8:40)
 

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(ONE ORGANISM, ONE VOTE! THE AFTERMATH!)
Campoon Speech Writers Proctor and Bergman relive the
agonies of their platform's De Feet with Steve Marshall (19:25)
 

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[4][5] "Thank You, Mr. President"
and "Campaign Chronicles"
©1980 by The Firesign Theatre

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[1][6] (p)1972 CBS
©2002 The Firesign Theatre,
 


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