The intended B-side of the record was an instrumental by guitarist John White called "Ruthie's Theme", named for a friend's daughter and credited only to "P.D."
(Goodman often placed such throwaways on the backs of his 45s, and in fact had already used "Ruthie's Theme" on the B-side of his version of "The Purple People Eater", released the previous year.)
However, the record plant sent Goodman a number of discs that had only a few seconds of "Energy Crisis '74" ("Mr. President, the cri--"), followed by two minutes of silence.
[citation needed] Many big hits of the day (including from three of the four ex-Beatles) were sampled on the record: Presumably for music rights reasons, "Energy Crisis '74" was heavily edited on Goodman's "Greatest Fables" compilation, released in 1997.
Fake re-recorded snippets were used for all but two of the above tracks (except "Smokin' in the Boys Room" and "Living for the City"), with the segments for "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Top of the World" completely removed.