David Frye/I Am The President
1969
Editing together several sessions recorded before an invited studio audience, Elektra took advantage of comic impressionist Fryes high media profile (including many Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Ed Sullivan and Smothers Brothers TV appearances) with an album that climbed to #19 on the pop album charts. Frye told Esquire magazine Everybody is trying to sell something, has some angle, and I figure out what the persons angle is, and set my mind to the way his is set. Even if it meant imaging Richard Nixon stoned!