Following up on a couple of minor points on this thread:

Someone mentioned Desiderata, and someone mentioned Lorne Greene (sp?). I am pretty sure I remember a recording of Lorne reading a parody of Desiderata. It kept repeating the line "You are a freak of the universe - you have no right to be here."

I also remember the Dickie Goodman novelty records which used snippets from popular songs to tell the story. I own two of them - "Berlin Top Ten" and "Batman and his Grandmother".

Don