Under the name "Dick Good", Chess Records released his version of Johnny Standley's comic monologue "It's in the Book".
[2] In June 1956, in partnership with Bill Buchanan, he made his first hit record, "The Flying Saucer Parts 1 & 2", a take-off of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds.
Goodman's material was more risque than Sherman's, with such songs as "Harry's Jockstrap", featuring his wife Susan, to the tune of "Frère Jacques").
Goodman sang on one track on the record, "Never Play Poker with a Man Named Doc (or Eat at a Place Called Mom's)", paraphrasing Nelson Algren's novel A Walk on the Wild Side).
Vik Venus's "Moonflight", which imitated Goodman's break-in style, reached #38 on 9 August 1969, much higher than "On Campus" one week after the latter peaked.
Goodman's records also inspired KQV morning disc jockey Bob DeCarlo's top 10 hit "Convention '72" under the name the Delegates.
John & Ernest's "Superfly Meets Shaft" (#31 in 1973), while made for a black audience, retained Goodman's "break-in" format.
The Glass Bottle recorded two singles, both straight pop songs; one of them, "I Ain't Got Time Anymore", hit #36 in 1971.
In 1974, Goodman anonymously released Screwy T.V., an album of risque parodies of then-popular TV shows.
This album proved less popular than My Son the Joke, as many record shops kept it "under the counter" because its cover showed two nude models (reportedly Susan and Dickie Goodman themselves) seen from the rear.
Jaws" also charted in the Top Ten in Great Britain and won a Juno Award in Canada.
[9] Goodman produced several other break-in records which garnered airplay and charted only in a few regions, including Los Angeles and New York City.
Goodman's break-in records were themselves spoofed by Albert Brooks in a comedy bit called "Party from Outer Space."
In 2000, Jon released The King of Novelty, a biography of Dickie's life and work, along with autobiographical material.