Buchanan and Goodman - The Flying Saucer Part 1 & 2 ~1956

The brainchild of Bill Buchanan, an American songwriter, and Dickie Goodman, a musician and record producer, Luniverse Records was an attempt to end the struggling the two artists were having at the time. It didn't start out well with the original name "Universe Records" was unknowingly already taken, so an "L" had to be added up front. Although a few other artists were found on Luniverse records, the catalog was mostly comprised of songs from Buchanan and Goodman themselves.
The song your listening to was their biggest hit, entitled "The Flying Saucer", it was released in 1956 and is considered to be one of, or THE earliest examples of a mashup, sampling various popular songs, intermixed with commentary in the style of a news broadcast (voiced by Buchanan) of a flying saucer landing on earth, as relayed by reporter John Cameron-Cameron (voiced by Goodman).
It was made using a reel-to-reel tape recorder and was comprised of clips from 17 different songs, all of which was a top 20 hit in 1955 or 56. Those songs are, in order:
"Open Up That Door" by Nappy Brown (saxophone intro only)
"The Great Pretender" by The Platters (referenced as "Too Real" by The Clatters)
"I Want You to Be My Girl" by The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon
"Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard
"Poor Me" by Fats Domino
"Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley
"Earth Angel" by The Penguins (referenced as "Earth" by The Pelicans)
"I Hear You Knocking" by Smiley Lewis (referenced as "Knocking" by Laughing Lewis)
"Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard
"(You've Got) The Magic Touch" by The Platters (referenced as "Uh-Oh" by The Clatters)
"The Great Pretender" by The Platters
"Band of Gold" by Don Cherry
"Ain't That A Shame" by Fats Domino (referenced as "That's A Shame" by Skinny Dynamo)
"Band of Gold" by Don Cherry (again)
"Don't Be Angry" by Nappy Brown
"Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins (referenced as "Shoes" by Pa Gherkins)
"Maybellene" by Chuck Berry (referenced as "The Motor Cooled Down" by Huckle Berry)
"See You Later Alligator" by Bill Haley & His Comets
"My Prayer" by The Platters
It was truly a song ahead of its time, and as a first, it got all the attention, specifically from the artists they sampled. Multiple publishers filed suit against the duo in July 1956, and their names were criticized by the critics and media of the era. Not to be put out, with The Flying Saucer being record 101, record 102 was "Buchanan and Goodman on Trial" released November 1956. They ultimately won against the suits, with the record being found "artful and clever". They would continue to make more Flying Saucer records, and believe it or not, the original was covered by other artists like Al "Jazzbo" Collins, Dewey, George & Jack & The Belltones, and somewhat unsurprisingly Sid Noel and His Outer Space Men.
This is the song that would help pave the way and at least get conversations started for the sampling we hear in music every day. Unfortunately the duo had a falling out and the record label would fold after just three short years in 1959, but leaving a permanent impact on the industry.

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Fats Domino, his bandleader Dave Bartholomew, and their lawyers were the leading musicians that used the lawsuits against Buchanan & Goodman for sampling his songs without permission. When Goodman used another Fats Domino song in 1961 ("What A Party") for the single "Santa & The Touchables", Domino again consulted his lawyers for a lawsuit. The record was pulled, and replaced by a reissued version with Ray Charles using a line from his 1961 hit "Hit The Road Jack" (the line was "But I'll Be Back On My Feet Someday.")