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Albert Brooks - In The Middle Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]

[Bill Ballance]
Well, I've probably spent more time talking on the phone than a volunteer at a suicide prevention center in Detroit.

[Charlie Van Dyke]
Nationally syndicated talk show host Bill Ballance.

[Ballance]
I told Albert one thing I found out over the years: callers love to talk to celebrities – and that's a good thing for the celebrity, too, because, after all, a tremendous number of people listen to talk radio these days, so, I feel this way, if an Albert Brooks wants any exposure to this kind of audiеnce, he's got to rent himsеlf a little Pinto and race around to as many talk radio stations as possible and get on that throbbing phone. I mean, after all, he'll never get a record played on a talk station.

[Van Dyke]
"Never" is a long, long time. But for Albert, "never" never came.

[Harry Shearer]
What he did was…he created a cut of phone calls to a celebrity!

[Van Dyke]
Co-producer Harry Shearer.

[Shearer]
In this case, see, the celebrity was…

[Albert Brooks]
Me!
[Shearer]
Yeah. Right. So, imagine the advantage here: you see, if he was really a guest on a talk show, and he left, he'd really be gone. This way, he's on a record; he can be a guest on a talk show two, three, four, five times a week – whenever the host, uh, wants to take a coffee break, put the record on, visit the W.C. Johnson. And, for total celebrity involvement, he not only took the calls – he also made them!

[Brooks]
Me!

[Shearer]
Yeah, yeah, right…