|
|
Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 28, 2024 22:36:25 GMT
I'm not sure how exactly one would classify this album. For me it is humour. I kept meaning to post a snip for Sepiatone but I guess that ship has left the dock with a cracker on a sock. How nice to have a song named after you. I long to be turquoise but I suspect I am beige under my layers of slap.
Colors is a "word jazz" album by voice-over and recording artist Ken Nordine. It was commissioned by the Fuller Paint Company to write radio advertisement spots, but after a few commercials became popular, it evolved to become an album of 34 songs. Each track personifies a different color or hue.
Sepia - Colors (Ken Nordine album)
|
|
|
|
Post by jamesjazzguitar on Mar 28, 2024 23:04:39 GMT
One of my favorite politicly themed comedy album, was by Abbie Hoffman - Wake Up America.
I haven't heard the album in over 30 years
One joke I remember is: In the state of New York, you can get more time for selling drugs to a minor than for voluntary manslaughter. So if you're selling drugs to a kid and the cops come, shoot the kid!
|
|
|
|
Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 28, 2024 23:36:12 GMT
So many downloads, so little time! And yet so much fun. I am entitled to 30 per day. And so I am sinking faster than a Led Zeppelin thanks to everyone's nimble fingers. I only just got to the Jerry Lewis show last night. Sorry ILM, thanks BunnyWhit. There is nothing better than a segment where a performer loses the plot during a routine. I do know what you mean ILM. I am on edge the whole time watching him, afraid he will cross a bridge too far, but he never manages to, much, and there is enough underlying brilliance to placate me. He is entitled to his opinion that women aren't funny. I suppose. I saw him only once live and he nailed it. The line-up to meet with him after the show was enormous. Carol Burnett tonight. And now adding to my list: Jerry Lewis comedy LPs. Oh my. |
|
|
|
Post by NoShear on Mar 28, 2024 23:42:26 GMT
One of my favorite politicly themed comedy album, was by Abbie Hoffman - Wake Up America. I haven't heard the album in over 30 years One joke I remember is: In the state of New York, you can get more time for selling drugs to a minor than for voluntary manslaughter. So if you're selling drugs to a kid and the cops come, shoot the kid! It's no wonder Abbie Hoffman, however misguided, chose to offer his opinion on the matter during the Who's set at the Woodstock Festival (read: a New York setting). Nearly ironically, Pete Townshend almost committed voluntary manslaughter in response!! |
|
|
|
Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 1, 2024 12:55:32 GMT
This may be a stretch, but I think of this as a comedy album, or at least an album of comedic song stylings. Notice the monkey wrench she's holding on the cover. I just posted something about Edie Adams elsewhere. but I've always intended to get around to her here. She was married to Ernie Kovacs until his death in 1962; he wasn't responsible for her comedic skills but he certainly encouraged them. This is from an album from 1959, featuring some great oddball interpretations of popular songs.
And her take on Marilyn's breathy singing style...
|
|
|
|
Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 2, 2024 19:43:05 GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen, because of bad weather, The Rolling Stones will not be here tonight.
In their place, will you please welcome Count Floyd.
Count Floyd has left the auditorium.
|
|
|
|
Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 4, 2024 23:20:57 GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen, because of bad weather, The Rolling Stones will not be here tonight.
In their place, will you please welcome Count Floyd.
Count Floyd has left the auditorium. Thanks for that. R.I.P. |
|
|
|
Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 4, 2024 23:28:33 GMT
I first encountered Elaine Stritch's one-woman show At Liberty (2002) on CD, but I'm posting a clip from a live performance because seeing her in action adds a lot. The show was basically a career retrospective (and an extremely self-revealing one at that) in which she sang some of the songs associated with her over the years, but the highpoints for me are the incredible theater stories by one of the great raconteurs. This one is my favorite.
|
|
|
|
Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 25, 2024 23:22:17 GMT
Everybody's got a Netflix special these days, but when I was young the way you got your comedy fix was through comedy albums. One of the most prolific comedians was Bob Newhart and I remember my friend had a bunch of them and we'd listen to them after school sometimes. This is from 1960 and it dominated its category on the Billboard chart. He wasn't the first to score in the LP format, but he was one of the most successful. It's pretty tame and basic by today's standards, but by playing against the concept of the "button-down mind" I think he at least helped nudge the fifties into the sixties.
|
|
|
|
Post by I Love Melvin on Jul 24, 2024 18:24:48 GMT
Is this comedy? I'm not sure, because it's actually kind of cute, especially for kids. From 1959.
|
|
|
|
Post by BunnyWhit on Jul 24, 2024 22:46:13 GMT
Well......Excuuuuuuuuse Meeeeeee!......if I mention Steve Martin's Let's Get Small (1977). It won the 1978 Grammy for Best Comedy Album, and it was the first comedy album to go platinum. My vinyl disappeared, but years later I did replace it with a CD. You know. Just in case.
|
|
|
|
Post by intrepid37 on Jul 28, 2024 8:04:16 GMT
In the 60's, nobody but nobody was bigger in the comedy-album game than Bill Cosby. I think just about everyone I knew had at least one of his albums.  |
|
|
|
Post by BunnyWhit on Jul 28, 2024 22:24:41 GMT
The Smothers Brothers put out a dozen comedy albums between 1961 and 1988. Their 1962 The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers was their highest charting. Interestingly, half of the album was dedicated to straight music because they'd not yet written enough new comedy material since the release of their 1961 effort.
|
|
|
|
Post by intrepid37 on Jul 30, 2024 16:29:31 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by I Love Melvin on Aug 8, 2024 13:23:51 GMT
There's a great tradition of toilet humor on records and I've been tempted to post Rusty Warren, Redd Foxx, etc., but I'm going to settle for something more recent, a 1985 live recording Bette Midler did at The Improv ("Mud Will Be Flung Tonight") featuring a selection of her "Soph" jokes, which were always a hit at her live concerts. It's blue-ish but, hey, who isn't?
|
|
