The First Family is a comedy album recorded on October 22, 1962. Coincidentally, at 7:00 pm EDT, the day the album was recorded, President Kennedy delivered a nation-wide televised address on all of the major networks announcing the discovery of the missiles, there after known as The Cuban Missile Crisis. The album was a good natured parody of President John F. Kennedy, both as Commander-in-Chief and as a member of a large, well-known political family. Originally issued by Cadence Records, it was honored as the largest and fastest selling record in the history of the record industry, selling at more than a million copies per week for the first six and one-half weeks in distribution and by January it had sold more than 7 million copies. Cadence president Archie Bleyer credited the album's success to radio airplay. By time of the release of The First Family - Volume Two, the sequel, it had sold 7.5 million copies unprecedented for any album at the time, let alone a comedy album.This represents the 50th Anniversary of the original release of The First Family album, originally available on November 12, 1962. Included are the original volumes 1 and 2 plus a special third CD containing a 28 minute BBC program about the album, Vaughn Meaders first TV appearance on Talent Scouts, which led to Bob Booker and Earle Doud using him on the album and a 1 minute 119 second clip of Kennedy talking about the album. JFK said it sounded like Bobby, Bobby said it sounded like Teddy. Extensive liner notes written by original producer and star, Bob Booker and never been seen photographs, also provided by Booker, make this a rich and unique listening experience.