The New Vaudeville Band, was a novelty group established by the song’s composer, Geoff Stephens.

"St. George and the Dragonet" was recorded August 26, 1953 by Stan
Freberg for Capitol Records. The satire was released September 21,
1953 and reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box record
charts.

Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg is still a very active author, recording artist,
animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and
advertising creative director,

Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after he 
graduated from High School in Alhambra, California. He began at
Warner Brothers in 1944.

In 1958, the Oregon Centennial Commission, under the sponsorship of Blitz-
Weinhard Brewing Company, hired Freberg to create a musical to celebrate
Oregon’s one-hundredth birthday. The result was the album Oregon! Oregon!
A Centennial Fable in Three Acts. It was released by Capitol Records during  
the Oregon Centennial in 1959.

       Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

                                   (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994)                   

  

James Drake, who billed himself as Nervous Norvus for his 1956, #8 hit record "Transfusion", a novelty tune about accidents, died of liver failure at the age 
of 56.