Dark comedy
“Elsie’s Sportin’ House” Montan Moreland, Roosevelt Myles & Janet Taylor One of the rarest from the Laff Records catalog. If you’re not familiar with Mantan Moreland here he is in a classic bit.
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October 11th, 2010 at 5:29 am
For those unfamiliar with Laff Records, many of them looked like this. As for the joke on the cover, it was also told by Redd Foxx, however, the protagonist was in a full body cast and was still able to ring the bell, which make a bit more sense, but probably would have gotten censored.
Like the notorious Nozbig who designed many of Charly Records’ sleeves, this fellow or woman gave the same leering, cartoony look to many Laff albums. One that didn’t was Marsha Warfield’s very funny, “I’m a Virgin” album.
Laff, is one of the few comedy-only labels. Warfield’s album can be found here:
http://www.rassoodock.com/data-pages/laff_records.html NFSW
Little David Records was dominated by comedy (Flip Wilson, George Carlin), but Kenny Rankin was not a comic, so it doesn’t count.