|
Victor Lundberg (2 September 1923 – 14 February 1990) was an American radio personality. He is best known for a spoken-word record called to "An Open Letter To My Teenage Son", which became an unlikely Top 10 hit in 1967.〔''"USA's Hottest New 45 RPM: Letter To A Teenage Son"'' by Bob O'Lear Rolling Stone. #RS2 November 23, 1967.〕 Lundberg was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was a newscaster at Grand Rapids radio station WMAX when he released "An Open Letter" in September 1967. The record, written by Lundberg and produced by Jack Tracy, imagines Lundberg talking to his teenage son (in real life, Lundberg had at least one male teenager in his household at the time). Lundberg touches on hippies, the Vietnam War, and patriotism. The voice-over, spoken over "Battle Hymn of the Republic", memorably ends with Lundberg telling his son that, if the teen burns his draft card, then he should "burn (his) birth certificate at the same time. From that moment on, I have no son." ==A hit record== "An Open Letter" became a surprise hit in Michigan and was released nationally by Liberty Records, jumping onto the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 at #84 on November 11, 1967. Within three weeks it went #58 - #18 - #10, making it one of the dozen or so fastest-climbing records in Hot 100 history up to that point, and Lundberg made an appearance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. After another week at #10, the record slipped to #22 for the week ending December 16, 1967, then vanished from the Hot 100 completely, after a total run of just six weeks. Few other records have ever been ranked so high in such a short chart stay on the Hot 100 (Napoleon XIV's "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" peaked at #3 but was only on the Hot 100 for six weeks; Kenny G's "Auld Lang Syne" (The Millennium Mix) peaked at #7 but was only the Hot 100 for five weeks).〔Joel Whitburn, ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits''. 7th edn, 2000〕 However, it sold over one million copies within a month of release and was awarded a gold disc. "An Open Letter" also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Recording,〔(The Envelope ), ''Los Angeles Times''. Accessed October 19, 2007.〕 losing to Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen's "Gallant Men". There were also at least eight "response" records: Keith Gordon's "A Teenager's Answer", released on the Tower label,〔Available on the compilation CD, (Way Out Wonders, Volume 1'' ),〕 "A Teenager's Open Letter To His Father" by Robert Tamlin.,〔(Blogfiles.wfmu.org )〕 "Letter From A Teenage Son" by Brandon Wade (40503 ), "A Letter To Dad" by Every Father's Teenage Son" (25 ), "Hi, Dad (An Open Letter To Dad)" by Dick Clair 〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqovAnH5eM〕. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Lundberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|