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Television producer and writer Bob Booker, who worked in the television, radio, film and music industries for 75 years, died July 12 at his home in Tiburon, California, at age 92 of heart failure, according to his daughter Laura Booker.
Booker was best known for the Grammy Award-winning comedy album The First Family,
In 1963, Booker, along with partner Earle Doud, wrote and produced The First Family, a parody of President John F. Kennedy and his family starring Vaughn Meader. The album became the best-selling and fastest-selling record in the history of the recording industry, selling 1 million copies a week for its first six weeks and atop the Billboard 200 chart for 12 weeks. It won the Grammy for Album of the Year and eventually sold 7.5 million copies.
