[78-L] Live comedy

[Cary Ginell]

I have early spoken comedy on 78s by such folks as Borge, Stanley Holloway, Amos & Andy, Douglas Byng, Alec Templeton, Weber & Fields, Reginald Gardiner, Nat. M. Wills, Cal Stewart (Uncle Josh), Senator Ford, Ada Jones, Benny Rubin, Sam Levenson, Bob Hope, and a few others. As far as live audience stand-up, there wasn't much on 78 - most of it was recorded in a studio. None of Borge's later Columbia stuff ("Comedy in Music" and after) appeared on 78. 

Cary Ginell

> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:33:34 -0500
> From: citrogsa at charter.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] Live comedy
> 
> 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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