The Flying Saucer (song)

"The Flying Saucer"
Single by Bill Buchanan and Goodman
ReleasedJuly 1956
Genre
Length4:17 (both parts)
Label
  • Luniverse
Songwriter(s)
Bill Buchanan and Goodman singles chronology
"The Flying Saucer"
(1956)
"Buchanan and Goodman on Trial"
(1956)

"The Flying Saucer" (also known as "The Flying Saucer Parts 1 & 2") is a novelty record, the first of a series of break-in records released by Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman (credited simply as "Buchanan & Goodman"). The song is considered to be an early (perhaps the earliest) example of a mashup, featuring segments of popular songs intertwined with spoken "news" commentary to tell the story of a visit from a flying saucer.

Bill Buchanan plays the radio announcer, stating that the spacemen are attacking Earth. Dickie Goodman plays reporter John Cameron-Cameron (a play on the broadcaster John Cameron Swayze). Goodman would re-visit this character in several other 'Flying Saucer' records.