Selma Diamond - Selma Diamond Talks And Talks And Talks 1960

Selma Diamond	Birth name	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Aug 05 1920 - May 13 1985 age 64	Official Site	IMDB

Selma Diamond was a Canadian-born American comic actress and radio and television writer, and is best known for her high-range, raspy voice and her portrayal of Selma Hacker on the first two seasons of the NBC television comedy series, 'Night Court' in 1984 & 1985. She began her career as a comedy writer first in radio in the 1940's and then television in the 1950's as one of the writers for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's groundbreaking, 'Your Show of Shows' In fact, Selma Diamond was reputed to have been the inspiration for the Sally Rogers character on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' (played by the similarly raspy-voiced Rose Marie), which centered around the head writer for a fictitious, mercurial television comedian. Miss Diamond made regular appearances on 'The Jack Paar Show' as well as 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson. The brief excerpt on this promotional 45 was taken from her 1960 Carlon Records comedy LP entitled, 'Selma Diamond Talks and talks and talks.....'. Selma Diamond passed away in 1985 from lung cancer at the age of 65.

Night Court's Selma

01 About "NOW"
02 About Being Single
03 About Men And Marriage

04 About "THEN"
05 About Four Minutes, 25 Seconds Long
06 About Her Aunt

	Standup	Carlon Records LPX-5001
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Pat McCormick - Tells It Like It Is 1968

01 Flying Tourist Class

02 Takes A Trip

03 News Maker

04 On The Bowery

05 Mondo Silly

06 A Man And His Family

07 Political Prognosticator

08 New Daytime Game 'Humiliation'

09 The Senior Citizens

10 Inventions To Better Mankind

11 More Mondo Silly

12 Club President

13 Speaks With Forked Tongue

14 Mondo Silly Rides Again

15 Tells It Like It Is

*Fabulous artwork by Mad Magazine's Mort Drucker

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Davey Bold - A Bold Knight 1966 (Canada)

Davey Bold	Birth name aka Davey Nose Bold	Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 16 1923 - Jul 16 1978 age 55	Official Site	IMDB

Davey Bold is about the funniest comedian I'd never heard of before. He was a mainstay in the St. Louis nightclub scene for many years, and died in the 1980s. There's little info out there about him, other than a reference to his uncredited part in the 1961 movie "Hoodlum Priest, and a mention in an interview with Woody Woodbury.
I actually found this guy very funny in that gently off-color style of 50s and 60s nightclub comics. There are a few dubious ethnic jokes that were acceptable back then, but I think you'll find him a lot funnier than some of the other comedians I've posted before.  Musicsnatcher

*Note the inconsistency on the album title on the labels... JimG

01 Side 01
02 Side 02

		Stand-up				Norman Records NL-103
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His other albums on this blog are "tagged" at the bottom of this post WANTED
King Of My Castle b/w I Can't Forget You (45)

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Hudson & Judson - Who's On First 1978

Hudson	Robert Howard Holmes aka Bob Hudson aka Emporer Bob Hudson	Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
Oct 1929 - Sep 20 1997 age 67	Official Site	Discogs

Judson	aka Ron Landry	Monroe, Louisiana, USA
Oct 24 1934 - Sep 16 2002 age 67	Tribute Site	Discogs

Bob Hudson wrote all of the material on this one, save for the opening title cut, based around the classic Abbott & Costello routine "Who's On First?". Next is a sports interview with none other than Bruiser LaRue, who's going to trade in his cleats to be a baseball star. Following that is "Take The Gum", where Judson is a guy on the subway being pestered by a well-meaning but annoying guy whose lot in life is chewing-gum. After that is a similar routine, "Hold The Mustard", about two guys at a ballgame, where one guy doesn't want mustard on his dog, and gets read the riot act by the other about the evils of not eating mustard. He changes his tune, though, when he finds out what's in mustard!
Side two opens with "The Pits", featuring Hudson's famous drunk, who's a few sails into the wind at the local watering hole, full of hilarious (to him, anyway) guessing games and tales of riding the bus while drunk (check it out at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+vPL4SvG-YiI)"Wagons Ho!" is a tale of the old West, and of how the most famous town in Arizona got its name. "Death Penalty" is a TV interview show parody, where a senator who's ready to throw the switch on condemened criminals may just be in hot water himself. The final cut, "Sweet Street", is kind of a sequel to "The Chocolate Freak" by H&L, featuring the same jokey candy references, only this time, the suspect goes in front of the Fudge Judge at the end.
This was the only album released by Hudson & Judson, on the Cream label in 1978. After this, Hudson returned to radio, where he remained on various stations and citites up until his retirement in 1988. Shadesbelow

01 Who's On First Adapted by Bob Hudson 3:45
02 Bruiser LaRue & The Manhattan Serenades 4:08
03 Take The Gum  3:38
04 Hold The Mustard  2:27

05 The Pits  3:48
06 Westward Ho 3:25
07 The Death Penalty 4:00
08 Sweet Street  3:14

	Standup	Cream Records – CR1008
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Allan Sherman - Best Of Allan Sherman 1979

Allan Sherman	Allan Copelon	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nov 30 1924 – Nov 20 1973 age 48	Official Site	Wikipedia

Allan Sherman was an American comedy writer and television producer who became famous as a song parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer (1962), became the fastest-selling record album up to that time. His biggest hit single was "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah", a comic novelty in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours.

01 Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!

02 Crazy Downtown

03 Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue

04 Harvey & Sheila

05 When I Was A Lad

06 Good Advice (LP version)

07 Sarah Jackman

08 You Went The Wrong Way, Old King Louie   

09 J.C. Cohen

10 One Hippopotami (LP version)

11 The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas

12 Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! (1964 version)

 

 

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Thanks daddio52!
His other material on this blog is "tagged" at the bottom of this post WANTED
Best Of Allan Sherman 1965	More Folk Songs By Allan Sherman & His Friends 1962		Selections From The Fig Leaves Are Falling (Promo) 1968		A Gift Of Laughter, Best Of Allan Sherman Vol II 1986		Allan Sherman And You 1964

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Ace Trucking Company - Ace Trucking Company 1970

Bill Saluga	Birth name aka Raymond J. Johnson Jr.  Ray J. Johnson, Ray, J, Johnny, Sonny, Junie, Ray J, RJ, RJJ, and RJJ Jr	Youngstown, Ohio, USA
1938 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

Fred Willard	Frederick Willard	Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Sep 19 1933 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

George Memmoli	George Memmoli	New York City, New York, USA
Aug 03 1938 – May 20 1985 age 46	Official Site	Wikipedia

Michael Mislove	Birth name	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
May 14 1941 -	Official Site	IMDB

Patti Deutsch	Patricia Deutsch	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Dec 16 1945 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

The Ace Trucking Company was one of the most innovative comedy troupes of the 1960s and 1970s. It consisted of four guys and one woman with George Memmoli, Michael Mislove, Bill Saluga, Patti Deutsch and Fred Willard. They were doing "sketch comedy" long before show such as "Saturday Night Live" (1975), "Friday" or "MADtv" (1995) ever came along.

The Ace Trucking Company appeared 35 times on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" between April 1969 and May 1975. They also performed their comedy sketches as well as improvised routines on "The Mike Douglas Show", "The Dick Cavett Show", Don Kirschner's "The Midnight Special", and "This Is Tom Jones" (as series regulars). They also appeared in the motion picture, "The Harrad Experiment", and recorded an album of improvised sketches for RCA records.

01 Paqua Velva 3:35 02 The Electric Chair 7:18 03 Psychiatrist and Patient 1:15 04 The Drugstore 1:25 05 10 to 5 to 5 4:03 06 $3.00 Quarterback 1:05 07 The Soap Opera 6:55 08 Constipation 2:48 09 The Honeymoon Night 3:25 10 The First Buffalo Hunt 5:56 11 Othello 4:00  12 The Last Supper 10:00

"You Can Call Me Ray"

	Improv Skit Comedy	RCA LSP-4268
Thanks EC!

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George Carlin - New Year's Eve Show Dec 31 2000 (Bootleg)

George Carlin	George Denis Patrick Carlin	New York, New York USA
May 12 1937 - Jun 22 2008 age 71	Official Site Life Timeline	Wikipedia

01 Soundtrack 1hr 23m

	Standup	* * *
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