John & Ernest..
Ayrotollah77
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Just got a 45 of theirs called "super fly meets shaft"on Rainy Wednesday Records..dope and funny as hell.I once heard a similar type of song called the "great streek off" or sumthin.Is this the same guys?Any strutters know what the story is with these guys? 
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See "Flying Saucers" - the late 50's hit that started
the format of cutting songs on comedy tracks - Goodman
repeated the formula every few years, for whatever styles
of music were hot at the time, and would usually rake in
another million.
There are 2 flipsides to "Superfly Meets Shaft" -
one is an annoying repeating, off-speed vocal sample,
the other is a pretty solid funk instro called "Problems"
and worth picking up for the quarter this 45 usually sells for.
Damn, I got the annoying joint...
Although there were several imitators, too, including the Delegates on Mainstream ("Convention '72" was a hit and had a funk instrumental flip side, "Funky Butt" - probably the same folk who played on the Afrique album a year later).
DELEGATES
Convention 72/Funky Butt (Mainstream 72)
The Delegates were a comedy group and this 45 comes from their album spoofing the 1972 elections. Convention 72 is similar to the John & Ernest 45s using a commentator spliced in between snippets of hit songs of the times to tell a comedic story about President Nixon, the Republicans, the Democrats and Senators McGovern and Kennedy. Funky Butt is a straight funk instrumental with some jazz and 60s influences.
DICKIE GOODMAN
Mr. President/Popularity (Rainy Wednesday)
Dickie Goodman was another manifestation of the comedy team that put together the John & Ernest cut and past 45s. The formula was to create a comedy routine using spoken parts and bits of songs. Mr. President uses Pop and Rock tunes to accomplish this. The real treat however is Popularity, which is an instrumental Funk song. Not as frantic as the other Funk tunes on Rainy Wednesday 45s, but still a good cut.
JOHN & ERNEST
Crossover/Soul President Number One (Rainy Wednesday 73)
I believe this 45 completes my John & Ernest collection. These 45s were released as comedy numbers featuring the team of John & Ernest making up funny stories about people like the president and relaying it through short snippets of popular soul and funk numbers of the time. Soul President Number One, for example, is about how the president???s car was stolen and the new head of the FBI, Superfly, was called in to only find out that the vice president was the culprit. Crossover however, is an actual song performed by a band rather than sampled and damn is it a nice and funky piece.
JOHN & ERNEST
Super Fly Meets Shaft/Problems (Rainy Wednesday 73)
John & Ernest was the name for a series of 45s on Rainy Wednesday that featured a funny story about American politics using bits and pieces of popular Soul tunes of the day. Super Fly Meets Shaft is about how Super Fly goes missing and Shaft is hired to find him, only for the detective to fall in love with President Nixon. The flipside is the same Funk jam as found on the Dickie Goodman 45, except with a new name.
And since we seem to have been discussing Latin music a lot lately, there are those Dickie Goodman singles on Cotique with Joey Pastrana flip sides...
i think i have both. isnt the repeating side called "the mistake" or something? i actually kinda like it.
the repeating side is called "part two" and is merely curtis mayfield repeating "ooh Superfly" over and over ("Superfly-fly-fly-fly").