#comedy records

[jojadoja1]

[oldshowbiz]

knockers up

[calimarikid]

(via Original '79 ROBIN WILLIAMS Reality... What A Concept | Etsy)

[osoanimation]

Jack Douglas Recorded Live At The Bon Soir

[thriftstoresisyphus]

Russ Spooner “You’ve Just Been Spoonerized”

[vinyl-connection]

Monty Python’s Flying Circus -- First LP, BBC Records 1970.

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[travsd]

Bob McFadden: The Man Who Would Be Franken Berry

Bob McFadden: The Man Who Would Be Franken Berry

A shout today for voice-over comedian Bob McFadden (1923-2000). The Ohio born entertainer started out in nightclubs as a singer and impressionist, achieving his first notoriety with a series of novelty singles he recorded in collaboration with one “Dor” (a pseudonym for Rod McKuen). These included “The Mummy” b/w, “The Beat Generation” (1959), “Son of The Mummy” (1960), and, who could forget…

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[the-ram-67]

Peanuts (aka Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Peanuts; Columbia, 1962) 

This was the first adaptation of Charles Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts on record, predating the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s Jazz Impressions of “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” by two years. Written by Schulz, it’s a comedy album consisting of conversations between Charlie Brown (Arthur Siegel) and Lucy (Kaye Ballard),* accented with music by Fred Karlin.

* - Readers familiar with older Peanuts comics, however, will recognize some of the dialogue was created initially for Violet and Linus.