Comedy
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Mad man!
Another from the pen of the always awesome Jack Davis! “Spoofing the Big Ones! Ben Colder as played by Sheb Wooley. MGM Records. 1962. Includes: Don’t Go Near The Eskimos / Ballad Of A Mean Ole Queen / I Walk The Line No 2 / Hello Walls No 2 / Walking The Floor Over You No 2 / Don’t Take Your Cash To Town / Little Bitty Steer / Real Me / Devil Woman No 2 / Don’t Worry Bout Me No 2 / Shudders And Screams / Release Me No 2
The comedy of errors
The Best of Kermit Shafer “For Those Who Have Everything” on Jubilee Records. Gatefold. With a nice illustration of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover. From the guy who gave us all those “Pardon My Blooper” records.
Shafer was the first to transform other people’s flustered speaking, slips of the tongue, and inadvertent solecisms from television and radio broadcasts into gold. In his hands, a blooper wasn’t just a mistake. It was a noteworthy event, a slice of everyday media life, otherwise evanescent, that he shined up for display. There was the Vick’s 44 Cough Syrup commercial that guaranteed “You’ll never get any better!” Or as the stumbling newscaster said, “Also keeping an eye on the Woodstock Rock Festival was New York’s governor Rockin Nelsenfeller.” — Fritinancy on the meaning of word “blooper”
Sick and satired
“Sick #2” Starring the Sicknicks with Will Jordan and Sandy Baron. Amy Records. Sick was the poor man’s MAD. A satirical humor magazine published from 1960 to 1980. “A magazine for those who can’t read” According to the liner notes there never was a “Sick #1.”
I’ll send a free LP Cover Lover T-shirt to the first person to identify 15 of the characters illustrated on the front and back covers. Good luck!
Take the T& A Train
Bill Barner’s “Trolley Bar Party” on Arrow Records. Must be San Franscisco based. I like that it’s tagged as being in “Mirth-Quake” compatible stereo. “Recorded as performed before a night club audience” (But not really?)