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	Vaughn Meader - Biography - AOL Music
		By the early '60s Meader was performing in comedy clubs in New York City; one night Meader spontaneously broke into an imitation of then newly elected President John F. Kennedy and his impression was so good that the audience response was encouraging.
		On October 22, 1962, Vaughn Meader and a cast under the direction of Bob Booker and Earle Doud recorded The First Family, a satirical sendup of Kennedy and his family and administration, featuring Meader in the role of the popular president.
		Meader was propelled to overnight stardom; he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, packed clubs in Las Vegas, and forged friendships with other influential stars in show business.
	music.aol.com /artist/vaughn-meader/202/biography (647 words)

	Vaughn Meader - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abbott Vaughn Meader (March 20, 1936 – October 29, 2004) was an American comedian and impersonator whose meteoric rise to fame with The First Family album spoofing President John F. Kennedy was equalled only by his meteoric crash into obscurity with Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
		Meader was born in Waterville, Maine, during one of the worst floods ever to hit New England (he often said he was born on "the night the West Bridge washed out").
		Meader and others commented through the years that the assassin's (presumed to be Lee Harvey Oswald) bullet killed not only Kennedy, but also Meader (or, Meader's career).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vaughn_Meader (883 words)

	Vaughn Meader, 68; known for impressions of Kennedy - The Boston Globe
		Vaughn Meader, who gained instant fame satirizing the presidency of John F. Kennedy in the multimillion-selling album ''The First Family," only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died yesterday.
		Meader, who had battled chronic emphysema and other ailments, died at his home in this central Maine city after refusing to be taken to the hospital, said his wife, Sheila.
		Meader turned to bluegrass and country music, and became known for his honky-tonk performances in bars in Maine.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/10/30/vaughn_meader_68_known_for_impressions_of_kennedy (358 words)

	D'ya hear the one about Vaughn Meader?: 5/19/03
		Meader, who got rich quick impersonating the president on a wildly successful comedy record album, was climbing into a cab in Milwaukee to go do his Kennedy spoof at a Democratic Party event on Nov. 22, 1963.
		Meader, figuring he was about to hear yet another Kennedy joke, replied, "No, how does it go?" An instant later, he heard on the radio the president was dead.
		Born in Maine and reared in Boston, Meader was honing his musical comedy in the clubs of New York City's Greenwich Village in the early '60s when he threw in the Kennedy impression one night at the end of his gig.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/05-03/05-19-03/b01li081.htm (995 words)

	Vaughn Meader; JFK satirist; 68 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Vaughn Meader, who gained instant fame satirizing the presidency of John F. Kennedy in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family," only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died Oct. 29.
		Meader, who had battled chronic emphysema and other ailments, died at his home in Auburn, Maine, after refusing to be taken to the hospital, his wife, Sheila, said.
		Living back in what he called the slow lane, Meader reveled in a resurgence of nostalgia-driven media interest in his JFK comedy act, said Sheila, his fourth wife, with whom he was married 16 years.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041030/news_1m30meader.html (323 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Maine News: JFK satirist Vaughn Meader dies
		AUBURN, Maine - Vaughn Meader, who gained instant fame satirizing the presidency of John F. Kennedy in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family," only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died Friday.
		Meader was born in the central Maine city of Waterville during one of New England’s worst floods.
		Back in what he called the slow lane, Meader reveled in a resurgence of nostalgia-driven media interest in his JFK comedy act, said Sheila, his fourth wife, to whom he was married for 16 years.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/10302004/maine/45851.htm (738 words)

	OGR - Vaughn Meader, "The First Family"
		Meader went through the "find yourself" phase of the 60's (he gave up all his worldly possessions, including the Grammy from his first album), started drinking heavily, made bad investments...
		Meader mellowed out in his elder years, moderated his drinking, wrote poetry and played piano across the country.
		Vaughn Meader: JFK's Minah Bird: George Morrison's fascinating coverage of the rise and fall of Vaughn Meader, and
	www.galleons.org /ogr/featured_vaughn_meader.htm (785 words)

	The KeenerBlog: First Family's Vaughn Meader Dies
		But for a brief time in the early 60s, the name Vaughn Meader was a household word.
		In 1962, Meader recorded "The First Family", an album parodying the White House lives of John F. Kennedy and his family.
		Meader's health failed him in recent years and it was emphysema that ended his earthly run on October 29th.
	www.keener13.com /blog/2004/10/first-familys-vaughn-meader-dies.html (525 words)

	Joseph Planta's Commentary - thecommentary.ca
		Meader was one of the biggest stars of the times, magazines like Time and Life did stories on him, and Democrats hired him to play at fundraisers.
		Meader, in Milwaukee, was getting into a cab when the driver asked, "Did you hear what happened to Kennedy in Dallas?" Meader replied, "No, how does it go?" thinking the cabbie was prefacing a joke.
		Vaughn Meader's story may not have been all that pleasant, but it's a good story in the fact that even in that tragic fall from fame, it was still fascinating.
	www.thecommentary.ca /archives/20041128.html (916 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Vaughn Meader, 68, Kennedy impersonator
		Vaughn Meader, 68, who created a national sensation impersonating President Kennedy on the hit 1962 comedy album "The First Family" but saw his career come to a virtual end when Kennedy was assassinated a year later, died Friday.
		Meader, a longtime smoker, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his home in Auburn, Maine, said his wife, Sheila.
		Meader providing the voices of both John and Robert Kennedy and Naomi Brossart as the wispy-voiced Jackie Kennedy, supported by a cast playing various relatives, dignitaries and "freeloaders," the album was recorded before a live audience in New York City on Oct. 22, 1962.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002077893_meaderobit31.html (990 words)

	Vaughn Meader 1936-2004 [Archive] - Nina Hartley's Sex Forums
		Vaughn Meader -- a comic whose polite brand of political satire served as a symbol of a country before it lost its innocence -- died Friday morning at his home in Auburn.
		Meader, who battled with chronic emphysema and other ailments, died a day after reporting he felt ill. He refused to be taken to the hospital, said Sheila Meader, his wife.
		Sheila Meader said she wanted to at least symbolically honor that request by having a celebration of her husband's life in Hallowell in late November, when friends might share stories and launch a symbolic floating pyre on the Kennebec.
	www.nina.com /vboard/archive/index.php/t-2017.html (833 words)

	Blog of Death: Vaughn Meader
		Abbott Vaughn Meader's career skyrocketed during John F. Kennedy's tenure in the White House -- and ended the moment the president was assassinated in Dallas.
		In 1971, Meader recorded the comedy album "The Second Coming." His impression of Jesus on a visit to Harlem earned critical acclaim, however, radio stations felt the material was sacrilegious and gave the album little air time.
		Vaughn's impersonation of JFK was so dead on, it was uncanny, althought JFK is quoted to have said that he sounded more like Teddy.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001210.html (799 words)

	[Deathwatch] Vaughn Meader, satirist , 68
		JFK Satirist Vaughn Meader Dies Fri Oct 29 AUBURN, Maine - Vaughn Meader, who gained fame satirizing John F. Kennedy's presidency in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family" only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died Friday.
		He once opened a Democratic National Committee dinner by telling delegates: "Vaughn Meader was busy tonight, so I came myself." Meader's career was stopped short by news that Kennedy had been assassinated.
		Meader's meteoric rise and fall in Gerald Nachman's book "Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s." "One twist to the single-bullet theory that didn't make it into the Warren Report: the same bullet that killed JFK also murdered Vaughn Meader's career," Nachman wrote.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2004-October/000908.html (672 words)

	Vaughn Meader, Satirist Of Kennedy Family, Dies (washingtonpost.com)
		Vaughn Meader, 68, who gained fame satirizing John F. Kennedy's presidency in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family," only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died Oct. 29 at his home in central Maine after refusing to be taken to a hospital.
		Sheila Meader, his fourth wife, to whom he was married 16 years, said he had chronic emphysema.
		Meader, a native of Waterville, Maine, was recruited to play the president on the album after he began throwing Kennedy impressions into his musical act.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A14717-2004Oct31.html (491 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Notoriety as JFK mimic haunts Vaughn Meader
		GULFPORT, Fla. – Like most Americans who were alive at the time, Vaughn Meader remembers the exact moment when he heard that President John F. Kennedy had been killed.
		These days, Abbott Vaughn Meader is alive but not very well, living in a small, two-bedroom clapboard house with his fourth wife, Sheila.
		Gray, bearded and toothless, Abbott Meader – as is he known now – doesn't look anything like that handsome pop-culture phenomenon who appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and was once kissed by Judy Garland.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20030516-1305-vaughnmeader.html (957 words)

	Vaughn Meader - AOL Music
		Vaughn Meader was 27 when "The First Family," his musical spoof of the Kennedys...
		Vaughn Meader (center, right) featured on the cover of The First Family,...
		Vaughn Meader, gained fame satirizing John F. Kennedy's presidency in the multimillion-selling album The First Family, only to have his star plummet when...
	music.aol.com /artist/vaughn-meader/202/main (174 words)

	Vaughn Meader
		Vaughn Meader was 27 when "The First Family," his musical spoof of the Kennedys, became the best-selling album in history.
		Meader spoke to David Isay about his life before and after.
		Abbott is the name I was born with, Abbott Vaughn Meader, in Waterville, Me., the night of the biggest flood in New England's history.
	www.soundportraits.org /in-print/magazine_articles/vaughn_meader (601 words)

	Vaughn Meader : The First Family, Vol. 1-2 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Much of Meader's reputation rested on The First Family, an album of comedy sketches that good-naturedly lampooned the Kennedys' family life and the Cold War hostilities that threatened to boil over during his term.
		Producers Earle Doud and Bob Booker co-wrote the record with George Foster, and their well-crafted gags are intelligent and gently satirical, poking good-natured fun without turning the record into a fawning tribute.
		Naomi Brossart does an excellent job as Jackie, and there are great bits involving Caroline, John-John, Castro, and Khrushchev, but Meader's performance is amazing, and his accent absolutely dead-on; Rose Kennedy once said that she could close her eyes while listening to the record and think it was her son.
	www.ratmdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,908525,00.html (421 words)

	Vaughn Meader : Second Coming - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		For about a year, Vaughn Meader was one of the most famous comedians in America, thanks to his uncanny impersonation of John F. Kennedy on the wildly popular humor album The First Family.
		Earle Doud, one of the writers and producers of The First Family, once again teamed up with Meader for The Second Coming, in which God (voiced by Joe Silver) decides it's time to send his only begotten son back to Earth.
		Meader's Jesus is pretty much the straight man throughout, and the humor walks a middle ground between cynical show-biz shtick and counter-culture-leaning humor pointing out the foibles of life in the United States, circa 1971, including gags about Nixon, women's liberation, Woodstock, and Sesame Street.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,229044,00.html (271 words)

	Vaughn Meader CDs, Vaughn Meader Records, CD Singles, Rare Records, Vinyl, Albums, Discography
		VAUGHN MEADER The First Family (Rare original 1962 purple London label LP featuring Bob Booker & Earl Doud's political satire based on a certain famous American family that achieved celebrity in the early 1960s.
		Using the remarkable mimicry talen ts of Vaughn Meader, this brings a piece of history to life and sends you back to the climate of the times.
		VAUGHN MEADER The Second Coming (Rare original 1971 US 12-track stereo LP on the highly collectable Kama Sutra label.
	eil.com /shop/artistlist.asp?artistname=vaughn-meader (290 words)

	eBay - vaughn meader, Records, CDs items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Vaughn Meader: The First Family LP VG+ (1962)
		Vaughn Meader and the First Family Volume Two 'Cadence'
		Vaughn Meader - The First Family - Cadence CLP 3060
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	TheAvanti.com-Vaughn Meader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Twenty-seven year old Vaughn Meader parodied the Kennedys with The First Family, the record album that won the Grammy Award as Album of the Year in 1962.
		The First Family became the fastest selling record ever, a status it has held long enough to be the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question.
		The album's sensational popularity also boosted Cadence Records, the plucky upstart which guessed right on the mood of the nation, showing up the Manhattan giants that had flatly refused to produce the album.
	www.theavanti.com /Meader.html (172 words)

	JFK Satirist Vaughn Meader Dies - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com
		AUBURN, Maine - Vaughn Meader, who gained fame satirizing John F. Kennedy's presidency in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family" only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died Friday.
		Meader's meteoric rise and fall in Gerald Nachman's book "Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s."
		And playing the game _ the star game," Meader said in an 1999 interview with The New York Times Magazine.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6363492 (708 words)

	The Unofficial Louise and Alison Arngrim Tribute Page
		Vaughn Meader, who dandled the twins on his knee back in 1963.
		Meader careered from career to career and struggled with substance abuse, finally settling
		as proof of Meader's impact on the Arngrim clan, guess what the middle intial "M" stands for in Louise M. Arngrim....
	hometown.aol.com /jeeveslon/indexarngrim.html (611 words)

	Vaughn Meader - The First Family \| internet radio on icebergradio.com
		The page "Vaughn Meader - The First Family" is best viewed with a flash player installed
		Veteran comedians and writers Earl Doud and Bob Booker introduced impressionist Vaughn Meader to the record buying public with this brilliant production covering imagined scenes from the Kennedy family's 1000 days in the White House.
		Meader's dead-on take of JFK's voice and mannerisms is complemented by Naomi Brossart's recording debut as Jackie Kennedy and a first rate script by George Foster, Booker, and Doud.
	www.icebergradio.com /album/270669 (103 words)

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