It’s in the Book 7" Vinyl, by John Waters - SIGNED

It’s in the Book, by John Waters. 2022 7” 45 RPM record on gold vinyl. Very nice condition. SIGNED.

Two tracks of Waters covering a stand-up routine recorded and made famous by midwestern-US comedian/actor/musician Johnny Standley in 1952. This is his attempt to portray, in Waters’ words, Standley’s “persnickety, droll, intellectually superior comic monologue,” a part song, part exhortation on the subject of Little Bo-Peep in the manner of a revivalist preacher.

The original version of “It’s in the Book” was a huge, surprise hit upon its release in 1952, rising to #1 on the Billboard chart and selling over 1-million copies. Its follow-up, the nursery rhyme gone-wrong, comedy routine, “Proud New Father” (released the following year in 1953), would not fare as well– perhaps due to its gory details. Waters recounts, “It may be the first sick joke I heard as a child.” As in the original versions, the two Standley homages include gratuitous laugh tracks.