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Rare Bay Records 1979 45rpm record. "Twinkie Insanity" (2:50) by Art Peterson. "The Ballad of Dan White" (2:55) by Lenny Anderson. Record in very good condition; paper sleeve worn from age. Yellow label on record.
History of event that lead up to the record. (from 

On November 27, 1978 San Francisco mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk (the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California) were gunned down by Dan White, a severely depressed  ex-City Supervisor who had recently given up his normal health food regimen for a steady diet of "junk food" laden with sugar and salt.  At his trial, White's attorneys argued that his consumption of junk food was a contributing symptom of his diminished capacity for reason, not, as most people believe a cause of the problem. 

In 2003, the San Francisco Chronicle's Carol Pogash wrote a  (The Myth Of The Twinkie Defense) summarizing the public's chronic misunderstanding of the situation.  A defense attorney recalls testimony concerning Ho-Hos and Ding Dongs, but Twinkies themselves were never mentioned in the entire trial.  Despite this fact, the myth of the  was born and as Pogash noted, "Folklore trumps history."

White was charged with first degree murder but ended up getting convicted of manslaughter and receiving a 7 year sentence, serving only 5 years before he was paroled in 1984.  In October 1985, a still depressed White  by carbon monoxide poisoning in the garage of a house owned by his wife in San Francisco's Excelsior district.

This split single features two songs about the murders and the events that followed.