Senator Bobby

Senator Bobby was the recording alias of Bill Minkin, an American comedian. In 1967 he released a single of himself doing an impression of Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy singing the hit song "Wild Thing". Released on Parkway Records, the record reached #20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.[1]

The flip side of the single is an impression of "Senator Everett McKinley" (Republican Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen) doing the same song. On the 45 label, the songs are credited to the Hardly-Worthit Players, and the Senator Bobby version was included as a bonus track on reissues of their 1962 Parkway LP called The Hardly-Worthit Report (the rest of the album is a comedic takeoff on the NBC national news broadcast the Huntley-Brinkley Report).

References

  1. ^ Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edn, 2000