Lenny Bruce - Lenny Bruce Originals Vol 1 & 2 1991

Lenny Bruce	Leonard Alfred Schneider	Mineloa, New York USA
Oct 13 1925 – Aug 03 1966 age 40	Official Site	Wikipedia

Volume 1

These 1958 tracks from The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce and Interviews of Our Times are the roots of the rage but not the rage itself. When Bruce first made the scene in the late 1950s, he was considerably tamer than he would become (although he was already quite volatile by the era's standards). Most of his early humor was based on bits and routines, with the comic providing a litany of voices for a passel of ethnic characters and bizarre situations. While not as shocking or as memorable as his later freeform work, much of this material still rings true, especially the hilarious "March of High Fidelity" and the dead-on "Non
Skeddo Flies Again." Certainly these roots are worth researching. Source: Amazon

 

01 Interview
02 Djinni in the Candy Store
03 Enchanting Transylvania
04 Interview with Dr. Sholem Stein
05 The March of High Fidelity   Listen
06 Father Flotski's Triumph [Unexpurgated]
07 All Broadway Musicals Sound the Same, Especially the Baritones
08 Shorty Petterstein Interview
09 Non Skeddo Flies Again
10 The Kid in the Well
11 Adolph Hitler and the M.C.A.
12 Ike, Sherm, and Nick
13 Psychopathia Sexualis
14 Religions, Inc.
15 Three Message Movies: Narcotics/Truth/Tolerance

Volume 2

This CD compilation, like Originals Vol. 1, is an absolute must for all fans of the late, great Lenny Bruce. This volume contains two more early Lenny Bruce albums: I Am Not A Nut, Elect Me and American. Note: a few tracks from American were put on Volume one due to time constraints. 
The four albums collected on Originals Volumes 1 and 2 were originally released by Fantasy Records in the late 1950s and pressed onto fancy red vinyl. For the CD release, Fantasy has digitally remastered these  recordings. The result is a crisp, clean sound that is a joy to hear. I  know - my father owned all the LPs, and as a kid in the 70's, I would listen to them on the family Hi-Fi. The remastering and CD quality is a definite improvement.

While these albums consisted of pre-written routines (in one bit, Lenny states that at the time, he did very little improv) and not the amazing free-form improvisational work of his later career, Lenny's genius and caustic wit shine through.

These incendiary routines were the real reason why Lenny Bruce was persecuted by the authorities, not his use of vulgar language. Buy this CD and hear for yourself why Lenny Bruce was the most brilliant and daring comedian of all time. Source: Amazon

01 White Collar Drunks 5:41
02 The Defiant Ones 4:27
03 The Phone Company 2:18
04 The Steve Allen Show 4:29
05 Esther Costello Story 2:41
06 Bronchitis 1:17
07 My Trip To Miami 3:41
08 The Tribunal 2:54
09 The Palladium 20:04
10 Our Governors 3:34
11 Lima, Ohio 7:37
12 Airplane Glue 1:43
13 Shelly Berman/Chicago/Nightclub Owners 4:27
14 How To Relax Your Colored Friends At Parties 3:19
15 The Lost Boy 1:46
16 Marriage, Divorce And Motels 5:26
17 Don's Big Dago 0:51
18 Commercials 1:00

Wife Honey, Lenny Bruce, daughter Kitty

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Various Artists - The Comedians 1960s

Carl Reiner	Carl Reiner	Bronx, New York, USA
Mar 20 1922 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

Mel Brooks	Melvin Kaminsky	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Jun 28 1926 -	Fan Site	Wikipedia

 

Buddy Hackett	Leonard Hacker	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Aug 31 1924 - Jun 30 2003 age 78	Official Site	Wikipedia

Lenny Bruce	Leonard Alfred Schneider	Mineloa, New York USA
Oct 13 1925 – Aug 03 1966 age 40	Official Site	Wikipedia

Buddy Hackett	Leonard Hacker	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Aug 31 1924 - Jun 30 2003 age 78	Official Site	Wikipedia

Joan Rivers	Joan Alexandra Molinsky	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Jun 08 1933 - Sep 04 2014 age 81	Official Site	Wikipedia

Redd Foxx	John Elroy Sanford	St. Louis, Missouri USA
Dec 09 1922 – Oct 11 1991 age 68	Official Site	Wikipedia

Jonathan Winters	Jonathan Harshman Winters III	Bellbrook, Ohio, USA
Nov 11 1925 - Apr 11 2013 age 87	Official Site	Wikipedia

Rodney Dangerfield	Jacob Rodney Cohen	Deer Park, New York, U.S.
Nov 22 1921 - Oct 05 2004 age 82	Official Site	Wikipedia

01 Mel Brooks And Carl Reiner

02 Joan Rivers

03 Rodney Dangerfield

04 Buddy Hackett

05 Lenny Bruce

06 Redd Foxx

07 Jonathan Winters

   


   

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Various Artists - 25 Years Of Recorded Comedy 1974

Carl Reiner	Carl Reiner	Bronx, New York, USA
Mar 20 1922 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

 

Mel Brooks	Melvin Kaminsky	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Jun 28 1926 -	Fan Site	Wikipedia

Mike Nichols	Michael Igor Peschkowsky	Berlin, Germany
Nov 06 1931 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

Elaine May	Elaine Berlin aka Esther Dale	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Apr 21 1932 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

David Frye	David Shapiro	Brooklyn, New York USA
Nov 21 1933 - Jan 24 2011 age 77	Official Site	Wikipedia

Stan Freberg, Eddie Lawrence, Allen & Rossi, Jonathan Winters, Bill Dana, Allan Sherman, Shelly Berman, Vaughn Meader, Gabe Kaplan, Lily Tomlin, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Cheech & Chong, Firesign Theatre, National Lampoon, Monty Python	Birth name	Birthplace
Born/Died	Official Site	Wikipedia

01 Stan Freberg - St. George And The Dragonet (1963)
02 Eddie Lawrence - The Old Philosopher (1956)
03 Marty Allen & Steve Rossi - The Punch Drunk Fighter (1963)
04 Excerpts From Pardon My Blooper (1954)
05 Jonathan Winters - Oldest Airline Sterardess "Maude Frickert" (1961)
06 Bill Dana (As Jose Jimenez) - The Astronaut (1961)
07 Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah Hello Faddah (1963)
08 Shelly Berman - Nichol's Department Store (1959)
09 Mike Nichols & Elaine May - The Telephone (1961)
10 Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks - The L.M.N.O.P. Ad Agency (1963)
11 The First Family (Featuring Vaughn Meader) - Economy Lunch (1962)
12 David Frye - Prologue / The Dick Nixon Show (1971)
13 Gabriel Kaplan - Ed Sullivan / Ed Sullivan (1974)
14 Monty Python - Argument Clinic (1972)
15 Lily Tomlin - Mr. Veedle (1971)
16 Richard Pryor - Just Us (1975)
17 Lenny Bruce - Religions Inc. (1958)
18 Cheech & Chong - Sargent Stadanko (1973)
19 The Firesign Theatre - High School Madness (1970)
20 National Lampoon - Deteriorata

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Lenny Bruce - Law, The Language & Lenny Bruce 1974

Lenny Bruce	Leonard Alfred Schneider	Mineloa, New York USA
Oct 13 1925 – Aug 03 1966 age 40	Official Site	Wikipedia

ABOUT EIGHTEEN MONTHS or so before Lenny Bruce died, he formed a loosely defined business relationship and a close friendship with Phil Sector. On the surface this seemed an unlikely hook-up. Closer examination does, however, reveal that there was a strange logic to the partnership. This was the mid-sixties. Spector was the teenage millionaire rock-and-roll whiz kid; Bruce was the comedian/martyr being hounded out of existence by the forces of reaction.
For Spector, the idea of supporting Lenny through his series of trials offered a kind of non-conformist radical commitment that was far superior to becoming a liberal democrat. For Lenny, the idea of a patron who would subsidise him while the complex net of legal harassment was virtually preventing him from working seemed like a gift from god. Spector poured large sums of money into Lenny during the final months of his life. After Lenny died he was even reported to have paid off the L.A. Police Department to prevent them from circulating the disgustingly rigged pictures of Bruce's nude corpse.
Spector's only material legacy from the whole episode was a number of tapes of Lenny's later performances. In the same way that Spector fans have been waiting for him to release a comprehensive set of his work with The Crystals, The Ronettes and The Righteous Brothers (now imminent, as a matter of fact), Lenny Bruce fans have waited anxiously for Uncle Phil to package up the Bruce tapes.
This is the first of them, and, in many ways, it's something of a mixed blessing.
Make no mistake, if you just walked out of seeing Dustin Hoffman play Lenny (if ever we do, finally, get to see that movie) this is not the album to rush and buy as a souvenir.
It contains none of the famous, more acceptable 'bits' like ‘Religions Inc’., ‘The Lone Ranger’, or ‘Father Flotsky’. If you want to hear the straight-forward, funny Bruce, you're better off with the earlier fantasy albums or even Zappa's production of the Berkeley concert. At this time in his career Lenny had pared down his nightclub act to a manic stream-of-consciousness pushed into over-drive by cocktails of methedrine and smack. He had reached a point where he was bored with his set routines, suspected their validity, and also assumed that the majority of the audience was familiar with them.
On this record, for the most part, he only makes nodding references to a few of his most powerful routines. He does an abbreviated version of ‘Tits And Ass’, a drastically cutdown synopsis of ‘How the Jew Got Into Show Business’, and ‘Jack Ruby Considered As A Jewish Billy The Kid’. If you want to hear the same material in its entirety, you have to go back to the earlier Lenny Bruce albums.
Time and again throughout this record Lenny goes back to the subject of morality, language, and law. He worries the subject of the obscenity law's like a terrier with a rat. It isn't a polished, finished performance. It's an individual freely verbalising his confusion at what is being done to him in the name of morality. It's a spectacle of Lenny Bruce turning himself and society inside out to discover where exactly the fault lies.
At times it's ironically hilarious, at others jerky and confused. It's hard to be objective about just how interesting the legal ramblings are to anyone who isn't that attracted to the concept of obscenity and the legal contradiction of censorship in a supposedly free society. Having been directly involved in a protracted obscenity trial, I personally find it fascinating. It's very possible, however, that it may not be everyone's cup of meat.
Despite its limitations, this album, probably above all the others, demonstrates the awesome weight of Bruce's thinking. It may be muddled at times, but it never lets up. Any comedian who can sign off his nightclub act with a correlation between Adolf Eichmann and the bombing of Hiroshima must not be forgotten. He doesn't leave them laughing. That's too easy.
Lenny Bruce left them numb and bleeding.
There was no safety in his comedy, either for him or his audience. In that, he took the ultimate artistic risk that few contemplate and even fewer attempt. Source: Rock's Back Pages Mick Farren, 1975

01 Side 1
02 Side 2

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