[78-L] new additions to Nat Recording Registry

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> On 4/6/2011 9:56 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Some worthy ones there. I wonder about that Mort Sahl being the "first
>>> standup
>>> comedy album"..anyone know offhand if the Lord Buckley Vaya discs were
>>> with an
>>> audience? There are definitely other live comedy recordings before 1955.
>>>
>> There were comedy 78's going back to the earliest days of 78's...!
>> "No News, or What Killed the Dog" sold for years in large numbers.
>> My personal favourite is Burt Sheppard doing "How I Got To Morrow,"
>> which is still funny after about 110 years...!
>> Steven C. Barr
> LIVE comedy records. That was the distinction, that they claimed this as 
> the
> first recorded stand-up routine. Sam Levenson's Apollos were done with an
> audience but I don't know if they'd qualify as standup, since they were
> rehearsed and scripted.
>
Question here is how much live comedy was being done on stahe (including
vaudeville) in the "78 era"...?! I used to do "standup comedy" at local 
"talent
shows" back  in the late fifties, before it went under that name! I hadn't 
yet
discovered my singing talents...so I just got up on the stage at our local
"talent shows" and told jokes! I knew any prizes would be3 given to young
dance acts anyway///!

Steven C. Barr