A record, by Henry Gibson

June 3rd, 2013 in Comedy, Poetry by lpcoverlover | 6 Comments

Henry Gibson  The GRASS Menagerie (or a flower child’s garden of verse)  Epic Records  (1965)  Cover photo by Roy Cummings  Read more about Henry here!

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1. #1 VVVU Music says:
   June 4th, 2013 at 8:09 am

   Off Topic: Imagine Henry Gibson having a cameo in Patrick McGoohan’s classic, The Prisoner, as Number Two.

2. #2 David D. says:
   June 4th, 2013 at 4:57 pm

   Hey, wait a minute. If this was a 1965 record, and “Laugh-In” began in 1968 (with that “by Henry Gibson” persona of the album cover), was it unreleased until he became popular?

3. #3 IDLERACER says:
   June 5th, 2013 at 10:24 am

   I can answer David D’s question. Rowan & Martin also put out an album on the Epic label in 1965. One routine on it, “The Birds And The Bees” is considered by many people to be up there with “Who’s On First” and “The Argument Clinic” as one of the all time classics. It’s what essentially landed them the Laugh-In gig three years later.

   Henry Gibson (i.e. James Bateman) had been doing his goofy poetry reading schtick for years both in nightclubs and on various TV programs before finally putting out an album, and subsequently getting a call from George Schlatter.

4. #4 ~Red x Baron~ says:
   June 5th, 2013 at 3:51 pm

   Hope Henry doesn’t… inhale!

5. #5 TJWeger says:
   June 7th, 2013 at 11:07 am

   Just in time for the photo shoot…Henry is released from a tree vagina with feather tickler in hand!

6. #6 James M says:
   February 15th, 2015 at 5:37 pm

   I have this album. The back cover reads “copyright 1968” for most of the pieces.