When the great Larry Storch died last month, I plumb forgot I had a photo I'd taken with him at one of his many birthday parties. (When you live to the age of 99 as he did, you have a lot of birthday parties.) At that party, much of what was discussed was his series, F Troop, which is one of those shows that holds up pretty well many decades later. Not all of them do but that one does.
But I asked him about a record he made once called "The Eighth Wonder of the World." There was a trend in novelty records for songs that had one or more naughty words in the lyrics but some sort of sound effect would replace every naughty word at every opportunity. This was unlike some records of this kind because I was never sure what naughty words were being bleeped…but no, I didn't ask Larry what they were. I asked him if he'd made any money off this record and he didn't hesitate before saying, "About enough to buy a chicken salad sandwich."
Back when he recorded this, that was probably less than a buck but I still think it's a fun record…