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Dave Gardner
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David Gardner
aka Brother Dave Gardner
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Jun 11 1926 - Sep 22 1983 age 57
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01 Love Is My Business (45)
02 Mad Witch (45)
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OJ Records 45-1022
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ENJOY!
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His other albums on this blog are "tagged" at the bottom of this post
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| Live In Concert Volume 1 1983 (VIDEO) |
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| Live In Concert Volume 2 1983 (VIDEO) |
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| Coward At The Alamo b/w You Are My Love (45) 1960 |
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| Hop Along Rock b/w All By Myself (45) 1958 |
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George Atkins
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1917 - Nov 30 2009 age 92
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Official Site
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Hank Levine
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Born/Died
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Official Site
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Wikipedia
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Tonight’s comedy album is Washington is For the Birds, a masterpiece of political humor dreamed up by writer George Atkins (Rocky and Bullwinkle and Madam’s Place) and California-based freelance music producer Hank Levine. The premise of this album was to take snippets of actual statements by famous ’60′s politicians like Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon and Bobby Kennedy and add a music background and chorus to make them sound as though they are “singing.” Atkins and Levine thought of this idea previously for the album Sing Along with JFK back in 1961, however, this album goes even further than the first. For one thing, Washington takes phrases unrelated to each other and strings them together to fit musical patterns as heard in the marvelous opener “Lady,” which has LBJ singing “the water we drink, the food we eat are threatened by pollution. So Lady, let us be on our way,” backed by a lilting chorus and orchestra. Also, Atkins and Levine expand the satire a bit to include at least one track where the chorus calls forth a response from the soloists instead of vice versa (“It’s Pain to Train a Texan from the Plain”–inspired by My Fair Lady‘s “The Rain in Spain”) and the final track (“The Wedding”) changes tempo several times to keep things interesting and hilarious. This is truly one of the greatest unknown gems of ’6os political comedy and would lead to sampling projects like The George W Bush Singers decades later. Source:
DamnThatOjeda
01 Lady
02 The Humphrey-Johnson Tap Routine
03 Good Evening, Welcome Neighbors
04 Return To Proven Ways (The Rev BM Goldwater)
05 The Immortal Words Of LBJ
06 It's Pain To Train A Texan From The Plain
07 Be Forthright, Bobby Kennedy
08 You Don't Have Nixon To Kick Around Anymore
09 Lynda And Luci Lullaby
10 The Wedding
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Reprise R 6212
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Parody
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Thanks Dr Forrest's Cheeze Factory!
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Michael Flanders OBE
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Michael Henry Flanders
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London, England
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Mar 1 1922 - Apr 14 1975 age 53
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Donald Swann
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Donald IbrahÃm Swann
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Llanelli, Wales
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Michael Flanders and Donald Swann were two of the finest British comedians of their day. Their medium was cabaret; Swann was a gifted pianist, composer, and linguist and Flanders a talented raconteur and lyricist with a sharp eye for satire. Meeting at school, Flanders and Swann first performed a revue together in 1940, although this was not the beginnings of their partnership; Flanders aspired to be an actor. During the second World War, Swann served in the ambulance corps and Flanders in the British Navy. Not long after the war, Flanders contracted polio and was confined to a wheelchair. In the early '50s, Flanders and Swann began writing together again, but mostly for other performers. In 1956, they presented their first revue of their own songs, At the Drop of a Hat. The revue first played at the New Lindsey Theatre in London, but soon moved to a larger theater (the Fortune), where it played continuously for two years until 1959. They took the Hat revue on tour after this to the Edinburgh Festival, 13 cities across the United States, and Canada, then on to Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. While the songs themselves remained by and large the same during the touring, Flanders would change his banter between songs to suit the location and to take into account any current events that could be addressed. A number of the Hat songs have become classics, but none more so than the immensely popular "Hippopotamus Song," whose chorus ("Mud, mud, glorious mud/Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood") is universally known, even if its origin isn't. In 1964, Flanders and Swann returned with a new revue, entitled At the Drop of Another Hat. As with the first Hat, the songs were tales of everyday English life, but included astute comments on current affairs of the day. As he had done in their first revue, Swann sang in languages other than English -- in Another Hat it was Russian, to add to his French and Greek songs on the first Hat. In 1966 and 1967, Flanders and Swann returned to the United States and Canada for another tour, and in 1967 Swann broke up the partnership. One more recording was produced; The Bestiary of Flanders and Swann. This was not a live recording, unlike the previous two, and while these songs were written by Flanders & Swann, many had already been performed by other people. After the breakup of the partnership, Flanders made use of his directing skills in stage plays, while Swann continued to compose and perform with a variety of partners. The strength of Flanders and Swann's music lay in a number of areas: Flanders' word play in his lyrics and his sharp wit and clever banter kept audiences' attention for hours, while Swann's music could borrow from the classics, light opera, jazz, or popular styles of the day, changing from one to the other in the blink of an eye. While much of their material was simply observational of middle-class English life, they also wrote a significant number of protest songs, whether they be about the closure of train lines ("Slow Train") or anti-war songs ("20 Tons of TNT"). Their protests were certainly much gentler than the folksingers of the day, but in many ways that has seen their music simply age much more gracefully. Source Jonathan Lewis AllMusic.com
01 The Gas-Man Cometh
02 Sounding Brass
03 Los Olividados
04 In The Desert
05 Ill Wind
06 First And Second Law
07 All Gall
08 Horoscope
09 Friendly Duet
10 Bedstead Men
11 By Air
12 Slow Train
13 A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice
14 Built Up Area
15 In The Bath
16 Sea Fever
17 Hippo Encore
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Music and Humor
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Thanks shifferbrains!
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Yogi Yorgesson
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Born Harry Edward Stewart Skarbo
aka: Harry Stewart, Harry Kari, Claude Hopper, Klaus Hammerschmidt
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Tacoma, Washington USA
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Oct 21 1908 – May 20 1956 age 46
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01 Grandpa
02 Sweet Sixteen (Is A Horrible Age)
03 Grandma
04 Just One Of Those Days
05 Little Knucklehead
06 Brother-In-Law
07 Aunt Frida (Is Enjoying Poor Health)
08 (I Sure Do Love) The Little Woman
Wes Harrison
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AKA
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USA
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Born/Died
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01 Out At The Outhouse
02 Father Oh Father
03 Better Late Than Never
04 Wes' Car
05 The Big Duck Hunt 1 By Horse
06 The Big Duck Hunt 2 By Jet Plane
07 The Big Duck Hunt 3 By Train
08 The Big Duck Hunt 4 By Car
09 The Big Duck Hunt 5 By Boat
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Funny Sound Effects
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Enjoy!
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Wes Harrison
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aka: n/a
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USA
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Born: n/a
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01 Fun With Sound
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Funny Sound Effects
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01 Hamletto
02 Backwards With The Folk Song
03 How To Enjoy Your Bagpipe
Albert Brooks
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Albert Lawrence Einstein (yup!)
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July 22, 1947
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01 A Daddy's Christmas (Single)
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Standup
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Enjoy!
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His other material on this blog is tagged at the bottom of this post
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| Party From Outer Space b/w Phone Call To Americans (Letter To Americans) (45) 1975 |
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| Rewriting The National Anthem Part 1 & 2 (45) 1973 |
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George Carlin
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George Denis Patrick Carlin
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New York, New York USA
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May 12 1937 - Jun 22 2008
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01 DJ Intro (Billy The Phone Freak)
02 Opening Remarks
03 Songs
04 Driving And Accidents
05 George's Grandfather--Zippers
06 George And The Reindeer
07 Suicide
08 More On Suicide
09 STP Foundation
10 Stuff You Don't Want To Hear
11 People Who Ought To Be Killed
12 Feces And Farts
13 Too Many Songs
14 The First Enema
15 Good Ideas
Erma Bombeck
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Erma Louise Bombeck
Born Erma Fiste
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Bellbrook, Ohio USA
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Feb 21 1927 - Apr 22 1996 age 69
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Erma Bombeck was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became best-sellers.
From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife with broad, and sometimes eloquent humor. By the 1970s, her columns were read, twice weekly, by thirty million readers of the 900 newspapers of the U.S. and Canada.
Quotes:
- "Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids."
- "My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."
- "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
- "If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead."
- "The only reason I would take up jogging is so I could hear heavy breathing again." **
- "Ironed Sheets are a health hazard."
- "Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage." **
- "Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
- "In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV."
- "When humor goes, there goes civilization." **
- "Seize the moment. Think of all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart."
- "Never loan your car to anyone to whom you've given birth." **
- "The grass is always greener over the septic tank."
- "A child needs your love more when he deserves it least." **
- "There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt." **
- "If you can laugh at it, you can live with it."
** Jim's favorites
Source: Wikipedia
01 My Husband And TV
02 Endangered Species
03 Tv Commercials
04 One Size Fits All
05 The Hipbone Mystique
06 Marriage
07 Divorce
08 A Man And His Car
09 The Energy Crisis
10 Two-year Olds
11 My Daughter Writes Obituaries
12 Family Vacations
13 Equal Colds
14 I Loved You Enough
15 Never Strike Your Child In Anger
16 I Can't Cope
17 Education
18 Things My Mother Taught Me
19 Mike And The Grass
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Domestic Humor
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Thanks Bob H!
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Tonight’s comedy album is Washington is For the Birds, a masterpiece of political humor dreamed up by writer George Atkins (Rocky and Bullwinkle and Madam’s Place) and California-based freelance music producer Hank Levine. The premise of this album was to take snippets of actual statements by famous ’60′s politicians like Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon and Bobby Kennedy and add a music background and chorus to make them sound as though they are “singing.” Atkins and Levine thought of this idea previously for the album Sing Along with JFK back in 1961, however, this album goes even further than the first. For one thing, Washington takes phrases unrelated to each other and strings them together to fit musical patterns as heard in the marvelous opener “Lady,” which has LBJ singing “the water we drink, the food we eat are threatened by pollution. So Lady, let us be on our way,” backed by a lilting chorus and orchestra. Also, Atkins and Levine expand the satire a bit to include at least one track where the chorus calls forth a response from the soloists instead of vice versa (“It’s Pain to Train a Texan from the Plain”–inspired by My Fair Lady‘s “The Rain in Spain”) and the final track (“The Wedding”) changes tempo several times to keep things interesting and hilarious. This is truly one of the greatest unknown gems of ’6os political comedy and would lead to sampling projects like The George W Bush Singers decades later. Source: DamnThatOjeda
01 Grandpa
01 Out At The Outhouse
01 DJ Intro (Billy The Phone Freak)
