Oy gevalt!  These alter kockers will make you plotz!  The Jewish comedy stylings of Dzigan and Szumagher.

The 3 Stooges “Sing Happy Yuletide Songs with the Music Wreckers” Golden Records (1960)  Larry, Moe and Curly-Joe Wreck the Halls!

The Rutles “A Hard Day’s Rut”  Parlourphone Records  A Rutles bootleg (if a parody band can have such a thing)  Originally created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes as a fictional band to be featured as part of various 1970s television programming, the group evolved into a real band that recorded and toured, debuted in the States on a couple of Saturday Night Live programs in 1975 and 1976 and was the subject of a mockumentary film “All You Need is Cash”.  The band included “Nasty” (Innes); “Stig” (Rikki Fataar); “Dirk” (Idle); and “Barry” (John Halsey).

“Don’t Get Married Son” by Peter Hnatiuk

Chistes Verdes…al Rojo Vivo  El Tadeo

The Many Heads of Dickie Goodman  Rori Records  (1962) Dickie Goodman wrote and recorded novelty songs and parodies beginning with the 1956 top ten hit “The Flying Saucer”  His career-long shtick was to act as a “reporter,” while the responses from the “people” he was interviewing would be soundbites from popular records of the day.  As the original sampling gangster,  he had 17 different labels sue him for using samples on “The Flying Saucer” without permission.  But the judge in the case ultimately sided with Goodman, stating that “he had created a new work” and didn’t simply copy another’s work.  In the early seventies he put out singles like “Convention ‘72″ “Superfly Meets Shaft” and “Watergate” and in 1975, he released probably his best-known song, “Mr. Jaws,” a spoof of the movie “Jaws” which peaked on the U.S. pop charts at #4 and sold over 500,000 copies.  He died in Fayetteville, NC, on November 6, 1989 (from an apparent suicide).

Morris and Mitch “Six-Feet Nothing Special”  Decca Records

“Horror Skop 63″  Von Peter Franken…feld  (Germany)

#5 in Fax Records’ Stag Party Record Series “Off Limits featuring Wild Service Songs”  These were sold with strategically placed strips of tape which in many cases were removed hastily and often left marks.  There are a few series of these adult comedy records with collectible nude covers (put out by Fax, Davis and Adam for example).  Not much to listen to, but favorites for cover lovers around the world.

Peter and Penelope Poof Have A Party “The Brightest, Most Hilarious and Sophisticated Album Ever Produced”  RIC Records  “Over 100 funny stories and jokes.  Over 30 limericks and wildly amusing naughty songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III, by Noel Coward and Cole Porter, by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, Irving Berlin and by Jim Lowe too!”  Cover art by Wally Wood.