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Bert Henry
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By day, Bert Henry was a scrawny nerd who worked in a chorus at Disneyland, but at night, he was an L.A. burlesque club comic who cut a series of raunchy stag party albums for Fax Records (Bert Henry in the Raw, Bert Henry the Hard Way), all of which similarly feature a nude woman on the cover. His recording career ended, however, when the head of the label was murdered along with the man's mistress who was found in a pose not unlike that of the model adorning (his LPs): "A manufacturer of risque records and an attractive nude woman were found in their bungalow at 7671 Fountain Ave., where they had been shot by an intruder on November 10, 1963. William H. Door, 46, identified by police as a widely known distributor of pornographic material, was lying fully dressed and face down with his feet bound on the dining room floor. Mrs. Ernestine Ellen Criss, 30, Door's mistress, was sprawled nude on her back in a king-size bed in one of the one of the two bedrooms. A pillow covered her face. Door, was shot twice, once in the back of the head and once in the hand. He had also had received two severe blows to the head, apparently in a struggle with his killer. Mrs. Criss was shot once in the mouth but was not beaten. Detectives theorized that Door and the dead woman may have been victims of a grudge killing by some of Door's associates in the pornography rackets. Friends said he had made a number of enemies through his rough handling of female models for the films and photographs he reportedly produced. Police believed Criss, who had been living with Door for at least a year, was awakened after retiring for the night and was shot through a pillow being held over her head to muffle her screams. Her killer then probably ambushed Door as he returned home. The bodies may have been in the house for as long as 12 hours before they were found at 8:30 a.m. by the cleaning lady. Door was said to be the owner of the Crescendo night club building on the Sunset Strip and had been associated in the past with The Garden of Allah, the Sphinx Club, Le Madelon and the Interlude. He was also said to have been a star football player at Temple U and for the Philadelphia Eagles." Found that info in a brochure for guided tours of notorious Los Angeles homes. A lot of lower California's detritus ends up in Oregon. Reminds me of dearly departed Dr. Gonzo's old quip: "The scum also rises." quomma blog
Side 1
01 Smith's Widow
02 Colorful Diet
03 Pussy Katz
04 Your Fly Is Open
05 Queer Bartender
06 British Homosexuals
07 Strange Fruit
08 The Late Date
09 Mermaid
10 The Will
11 Uncle's 18-Year Old Bride
12 Come Again
13 Hat Full Of Skin
14 Fan Letters
15 Nude For Nurse
16 Mrs. Brown Had Twins
17 Full Of Pith
18 Backward Nurse
19 Stomach Trouble
20 Singing Body
21 Two On A Couch
22 A Lot Of Bull
23 Violent Lover
24 First Man
25 Man's Anatomy
26 Grass Eater
27 Three Commandments
28 Parrot Eggs
29 Dog For A Lady
30 The Garden Party
31 Ten Boys
32 Her Name Is Smith
33 Hole In The Pocket
34 Falling Business
35 Panoo
36 Some Movement
37 Motel Girl
38 The Pain In The Neck
Side 1
01 Tell Your Mother
02 Stomach Rub
03 War And Peace
04 The Big Club
05 The Hot Wife
06 Dessert's Killing Me
07 French Test
08 On Your Toes
09 Student Body
10 Repressed Desires
11 The Spelling Contest
12 Gutter Mind
13 She Got $500
14 The Bad Tooth
15 Mary's Little Dress
16 The Roman Slaves
17 The Plumber's Helper
18 The Draftee
19 Sex Can Be Beautiful
20 15 Years Without A Girl
21 Which Came First
22 She's Just Like The Navy
23 The Circumcision
24 He's Riding In The Fourth
25 Saleman's Wife
26 The Jockey And The Showgirl
27 Fix The Fly
28 Passionate Paula
29 The Thighs Of My Wife
30 The Nut House
31 All Day Sucker
32 The Lucky Princess
33 Hold That Tiger
34 Let Mommy Kiss It
Bert Henry
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Before 1945 - ~2004
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This is the only Bert Henry album for which I could not find a non-nude cover version. if one exists, please drop me an email at jimgweb@gmail.com.
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Bert worked at Disneyland and Disney World for decades in the Frontierland Stage Show.
Side 1
01 Jock Strap Blues
02 A Shot In The Head
03 Bedlam
04 The Virgin And The Parachute Jumper
05 Diaphragms
06 Plight Of The Japanese Prostitute
07 Without Sex
08 Red Light
09 The Prostitute And The Psychiatrist
10 Feel Like A Million
11 The Big Hold Up
12 A Case Of Arson
13 A Twenty Dollar Loan
14 The Cash Customer
15 Santa Baby
16 Nudist Camp Capers
17 Cutie In Curlers
18 Leap Frog Bends
19 Strip Poker
20 The Masquerade
21 Hands In The Valley
22 The Too Big Adam
23 Meet Dick Brown
24 Bare Aspirin
25 The Harnessed Frenchman
26 Virgin Forest
27 It's Love
28 Piggy Back
29 The Big Blow
30 Sex Insomnia
31 The Big Snatcher
32 Wise Cracks
33 Hold-Up Or Stick-Up
34 How To Make A Woman Hot
35 The Fifth Columnist
36 Crowded Elevators
37 Cat House
38 It's A Hen Or Pullet
39 Virgin Balloon
40 The Thumb Sucker
41 Girls Over 40
42 Grudge Pregnancy
43 Sex Is Murder
44 Her Greatest Thrill
45 The Deadly Actress
Side Two
01 The Midget And The Amazon
02 The Nagging Wife
03 It's A Nightmare
04 A Little Something For A Sailor
05 The Honeymoon Dance
06 Did You Say "W"
07 Good Advice From The Boys
08 The Double Honeymoon
09 Three Good Texans
10 A Stranger In Bed
11 Bed And Bored
12 My Wife Is A Boy
13 Living Bra
14 Reducing Blues
15 She's Playing Bingo
16 It's Longer In June
17 Snake In The Grass
18 The Suggestive Whisper
19 Married Ten And Five
20 The Sex Maniac
21 It's Not Like The Birds And The Bees
22 Knock A Few Fowls
23 Adam And Eve
24 The Garbage Man's Daughter
25 The Lawyer's Daughter
26 Her Tight Capris
27 Shall We Call It Eczema
28 His Costly Mistake
29 Two Old Maids
30 The Big Squeeze
31 Box Of Cherries
32 Sex Too Much
33 The Mother Frocker
34 Hollywood's Cork Soakers
35 The Active Agent
36 How To Have Sex And Stay On A Diet
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Before 1945 - ~2004
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Even though I positioned his act in the "Bad" category, his whizz-bang delivery really won us over. Bert Henry's delivery transcends his subject matter in my opinion. In a long line of Borscht Belt comedians, and Miami nightclub acts, he is up there at the top of the heap. ~gigglesforguzzlers
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Before 1945 - ~2004
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Bert Henry, stand-up comedian, is a man whose albums are difficult to find and whose humor is heard throughout the streets on an almost daily basis. There are no videos on You Tube and the advertisements for his 33 1/3 RPM Long Play Fax Records such as At the Hungry Thigh and In the Raw offer little education in the area of his life or career.
During the late 1950’s and early 60’s Henry established a clamoring audience that consisted of the average man and Hollywood entertainers who considered his bits to be wild and bold, which they were for their time: With routines about a cat of nine tails, sexual urges, a horse named My Dick ridden first by Jockey Strap (who falls off My Dick after the horse enters “a very dangerous position”) and then A. Crab (who nobody should “forget to put on their…scratch ticket.”) and (probably most noteably) a parrot who incessantly claims, "I know what you do!" and at the hatching of her eggs, it is discovered that what she does is have sexual intercourse with owls!
Henry, boasted by Fax records as a master of “Torrid tid-bits of sexopathic humor!” began his career in show business as a jitter-bug dancer in Cincinnati, Ohio. After earning acclaim for his performances on the USO circuit, Henry encountered an emergency when the record to which he and his wife danced went dead behind the stage wings. Henry stood before an audience of 2,000 in utter silence. He began adlibbing and, to his amazement, held them enthralled. After this, he “stooged” for a Burlesque Comic of Columbo’s in Philadelphia. After the Burlesque comic (kept anonymous even in the very few bios of Henry) became sick, Henry was sent up before the audience as headliner for the evening. Thus began his career as a solo act.
Those fortunate enough to own his records might remark on the superb timing of Bert Henry; of the charisma that "street jokers" lack which he brought to the stage and of how kindly he closed all of his shows by saying, "In show business you learn three things: You stand up to be seen, you speak loud to be heard and when you have an audience as nice as this, you sit down to be appreciated." All owners of his records (this owner included) may also find themselves outraged that, while his jokes live on in the voices of con's who steel material for a few jitters from their friends, the man who wrote them himself has faded away.
Side 1
01 Bar Buddies
02 Supermarket Pick-Up
03 Anthony & Cleopatra
04 Queers & Rears
05 Ashes In A Fruit Jar
06 15 Years Happiness
07 Bisexual
08 No Degenerates In Show Business
09 Going Down
10 Sex Relations
11 Man Without A Gun
12 To Kill A Man
13 The Queer Termite
14 The Mouse & The Giraffe
15 Mouse & Spouse
16 Elephant Shoot
17 Mother Is Spoiled
18 The Big Tail
19 King Of The Jungle
20 What Kills Elephants
21 Rooster Or Chicken
22 Wrestling
23 Hen Chaser
24 Pigeons In The Rose Bowl
25 The Queer Rooster
26 Mounted Monkeys
27 Glass In The Rat Hole
28 A Dog's Life
29 Pay Toilets
30 The Lost Tail
31 Dog Building
32 The Rich Dog
33 Nude At The Circus
34 Throw Something
35 The Exotic Dancer's Parrot
Side 2
01 Batter Up
02 Go Home Honey
03 Sex Is Here To Stay
04 They Get You By The Room
05 Normal Sex Life
06 Lady Chatterley's Lover
07 Cold Shower
08 Marry For Money
09 Eating Out
10 Play In The Cracks
11 Three In A Bed
12 The New Position
13 Coming Home
14 Atomic Bra
15 Shorten The Stroke
16 Women Fade In The Stretch
17 Slippery Sarah
18 Girls Who Eat Oysters
19 Is Yours Raisin Too
20 Up With The Petticoats, Down With The Pants
21 French Riviera
22 The Senator & Secretary
23 The Greek Customer
24 Johnny's Teacher
25 Technical Bastard
26 The Clean Waiter
27 Nude On The Third Floor
28 The Silver Screw
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