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Morey Amsterdam - The Next One Will Kill You 1963

On: Friday, September 14, 2012

Morey Amsterdam
Moritz Amsterdam
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dec 14 1908 - Oct 28 1996 age 87
Official Site

The Next One Will Kill You is the comedy CD re release of the 1963 stand-up jokes album by Morey Amsterdam. If the name Amsterdam is familiar, it is probably because he played Buddy Sorrell, one of the writers for the fictitious Alan Brady Show. Amsterdam was known as The Human Joke Machine and this old school joke CD proves it was a well-earned title.
Morey Amsterdam sings and tells jokes to a musical background. This is of course clean and family friendly comedy. Each track is a collage of similarly themed jokes such as My Psychiatrist Says. Our very PC world might be a bit uncomfortable at the fake Irish accent Morey Amsterdam uses on Big Molly O’Toole but it is funny. I Wonder What a Baby Thinks is more cute than har-har funny. A Man’s Best Friend is His Nose is a series of nasal jokes. Drunks Inc. is delivered in a late night blues style that really makes this track stand out and perhaps the best one on The Next One Will Kill You.  Baby Drown the Drain is a Cockney accent ditty and the weakest bit on this comedy CD.  Onions has a weird tropical – Caribbean feel to it. This is a decent enough bit but the jokes are the weakest on The Next One Will Kill You.  This Morey Amsterdam is definitely old school and on the weirdly cool side.

01 Yuk-A-Puc 2:40
02 My Psychiatrist Says 6:47
03 Big Molly O'Toole 3:19
04 I Wonder What a Baby Thinks 3:51
05 A Man's Best Friend Is His Nose 3:00
06 Drunks Inc. 7:01
07 Baby Down the Drain 2:36
08 Onions 6:34



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Morey Amsterdam - Funny You Should Ask! 1963

On: Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Morey Amsterdam
Moritz Amsterdam
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dec 14 1908 - Oct 28 1996
Official Site

 
01 Fredric Francois Chopin
02 Lady Godiva's Husband
03 Sir Isaac Newton
04 Buffalo Bil Cody
05 Martha Washington
06 Christopher Columbus
07 Dr Sigmund Freud
08 PT Barnum






Morey Amsterdam - Uncle Morey's Mixed-Up Stories For Smart Kids 1965

On: Friday, September 30, 2011


Morey Amsterdam
Moritz Amsterdam
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dec 14 1908 - Oct 28 1996 age 87
Official Site
His best-known role was as comedy writer Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66), a role suggested for him by his friend Rose Marie, who also appeared on the show. Amsterdam wrote lyrics for the show's theme song, which were never heard on the air, but have been performed by Dick Van Dyke in concert. Van Dyke sang those lyrics on the October 23, 2010 edition of the NPR show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, which is available as transcript and audio WWDTM 10-23-10 .

Amsterdam was an occasional panelist on Match Game and the short-lived Can You Top This? during the 1970s. He appeared as a small-time criminal in several episodes of the soap opera The Young and the Restless in the 1990s. Amsterdam and Rose Marie later appeared as panelists on The Hollywood Squares and guest-starred together in a February 1996 episode of the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City (his final television appearance). Excerpt from Wikipedia

01 Three Little Pigs
02 Carmen
03 The Grasshopper and The Ant
04 Cinderella
  

05 Ali Baba
06 Little Bo Peep
07 Rip Van Winkle


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