Victor Lundberg (September 2, 1923 , Grand Rapids, Michigan – February 14, 1990[citation needed]) was an American radio personality, best known for a spoken-word record called "An Open Letter to My Teenage Son", which became an unlikely Top 10 hit in 1967.
[4] "An Open Letter" also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Recording,[5] losing to Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen's "Gallant Men".
The record was heavily criticised in a scathing review by William Zinsser, "The Pitfalls of Pop's Pompous Pop-off", in Life Magazine, 5 January 1968.
[6] Encouraged by the single's success, Liberty released an entire album of Lundberg's musings, entitled An Open Letter (LST 7547) that failed to chart.
"My Buddy Carl" (originally the B-side of the hit single) decried racial prejudice, while "On Censorship", takes an almost Libertarian view of "self-appointed ... censorious do-gooders".