George Crater of the Down Beat magazine cracked the following joke: "Question: What does a Miles Davis doll do if you wind it up?
"[3] A possible explanation of the appearance of this kind of jokes is that dolls of celebrities have long been part of American culture.
[1] They started to be transmitted verbally in the fall of 1960 in the Los Angeles area, and in two years they found their way to major popular periodicals as a new fad.
[2] A significant part of them had a character of sick jokes: "The cerebral palsy doll: wind it up and it sings, I'll Never Walk Alone".
[1] This fad produced a book, Dolls My Mother Never Gave Me, by Jack Wohl & Stan Rice (1962).