Records: You Wild Thing, You

Like it or not, Senator Robert Kennedy has a reputation he can't shake for hanging tough, cool and humorless. The combination might be surefire at the ballot box, but at the box office—sure chill. Or so it seemed until a few weeks ago, when out came Wild Thing, a new 45-r.p.m. recording of a big-beat tune. The vocalist is a dead ringer for Bobby and he purportedly is at a recording session.

"Stand by," the control room orders. "This is Wild Thing, Take 72, Senator." The music begins. "Bobby" comes on in the heavy-breathing opening stanzas with all the lustiness...