Editing Stanley Ralph Ross
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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After graduating from high school in 1952, Ross |
After graduating from high school in 1952, Ross performed in the [[Borscht Belt]] with a vocal group first called The Three Feathers, and then The Formals, who recorded a single for [[Dawn Records (American label)|Dawn Records]]. Their arranger was [[Dave Lambert (American jazz vocalist)|Dave Lambert]]. Rather than going to college, Ross performed as a comedy duo with [[Paul Krassner]]. He then sold adding machines, and worked as an agent for photographers (including [[Weegee]]) and models. “I didn’t know I was a writer,” Ross later recalled. “I didn’t find that out until many years later.” <ref name="Academy"/> |
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Ross moved to Los Angeles in 1956, and met his wife, Neila Hyman, almost immediately. While working in advertising (“where I learned how to write,” Ross recalled later),<ref name="Academy"/> Ross teamed with [[Bob Arbogast]] to write and record the 1958 novelty record "Chaos". When it came out on [[Liberty Records]], it sold 10,000 copies in three days and then was banned from radio play when stations realized that it satirized [[Top 40 (format)|Top 40]] radio. The record became a favorite of [[Dr Demento]], and may have influenced [[George Carlin]]’s “Wonderful WINO” radio routine.<ref>{{cite book|pages=82–83|title= Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin|first=James|last=Sullivan|year=2010|publisher=Hachette Books|ISBN= 9780786745920}}</ref> |
Ross moved to Los Angeles in 1956, and met his wife, Neila Hyman, almost immediately. While working in advertising (“where I learned how to write,” Ross recalled later),<ref name="Academy"/> Ross teamed with [[Bob Arbogast]] to write and record the 1958 novelty record "Chaos". When it came out on [[Liberty Records]], it sold 10,000 copies in three days and then was banned from radio play when stations realized that it satirized [[Top 40 (format)|Top 40]] radio. The record became a favorite of [[Dr Demento]], and may have influenced [[George Carlin]]’s “Wonderful WINO” radio routine.<ref>{{cite book|pages=82–83|title= Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin|first=James|last=Sullivan|year=2010|publisher=Hachette Books|ISBN= 9780786745920}}</ref> |