His album, "Class Clown," was one of the most explosively funny things I’d ever heard when I was, oh, around 9 or 10 I think, back in the mid-’70s. My dad had a copy and I would listen to it. Many would have been scandalized if they’d known a 9 year old was listening to it, what with all the dirty words and such. The famous "7 Words You Can’t Use On Television" was on that album, along with the "Hippy Dippy Weather Man" and other stuff like sharing a swallow and quite a few other things.
I was not, in all honesty, a fan of his post-70s work. But he’s the guy who did "Class Clown," and that’s how I’ll always remember him.
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His album, "Class Clown," was one of the most explosively funny things I’d ever heard when I was, oh, around 9 or 10 I think, back in the mid-’70s. My dad had a copy and I would listen to it. Many would have been scandalized if they’d known a 9 year old was listening to it, what with all the dirty words and such. The famous "7 Words You Can’t Use On Television" was on that album, along with the "Hippy Dippy Weather Man" and other stuff like sharing a swallow and quite a few other things.
I was not, in all honesty, a fan of his post-70s work. But he’s the guy who did "Class Clown," and that’s how I’ll always remember him.
Great way to remember him Dean.
 His work lives in all who have been touched by him.
The world is darker yet, today.
Another rabid individual annihilating the foundations of value in this society. Good riddance.
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