[78-L] Live comedy

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 4/7/2011 10:05, David Lennick wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
> Professor Irwin Corey's Jubilee lp was issued in 1957. The Mort Sahl predates
> it as a recording but I think it was issued later, once he'd done well on Verve.
>
> And actually there was a fair bit of standup comedy by Max Miller on 78s around
> the early 40s, but that's British. Henny Youngman also did a 78 for Bluebird.
I've go Red Buttons' "Strange Things Are Happening." That was 1953.

Victor Borge's discography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Borge#Discography
"Phonetic Quotations", a later version:
http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/fromthevaults/3358/victor-borge-phonetic-punctuation-1955/



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