[78-L] Live comedy

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Apr 7 20:43:10 PDT 2011


On 4/7/2011 11:33 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 4/7/2011 10:05, David Lennick wrote:
>>>
>> 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/
>
I thought of listing Borge, but he rarely stood up....

dl



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