A 45 cost 79 cents, if I remember correctly, and an LP (which The First
Family was) about $4.98, though that's from memory and I could be wrong.
Vaughn Meader, I believe, went on to a modestly successful career as a
Las Vegas lounge pianist -- got out of the humor game.
Peter Cudmore wrote:
>> A week after JFK was assassinated, I was in a Bronx bookstore (they used
>> to have them) and "The First Family" was in a bin in the back labeled
>> "29 cents." There were no takers.
>>
>
> How much was 29 cents worth back then? There's an example in the literature
> of £5 being thrown from a window in 1969, which would be worth about £60/
> $120 nowadays. 29c might just have been too steep.
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