[78-L] Live comedy

[Michael Biel]

Ah, now I see what their point is -- MODERN stand-up comedy.   Does it 
have to be about contemporary politics and society?  Will Rodgers would 
qualify.

One other probem on the list.  They talk about Music From Peter Gunn as 
being a TV soundtrack album.  It wasn't.  It was a studio recording.  
And there were other suave TV detectives before Peter Gunn.  I nominate 
Mark Saber, Mike Hammer, and Martin Kane.   And  would anyone call the 
Dorsey Bros Orch of the30s New Orleans jazz??

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

On 4/10/2011 1:56 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> I have a Victor Borge -- actually Borge Rosenbaum -- HMV in Danish arom
> the 1930s.  It is a two sided routine about a restaurant.  Like his
> Columbia 78s, this has no audience.  Like some other British records in
> the late 30s, there are Gracie Fields records recorded with audiences of
> the troops but that probably doesn't count.  But Bob Hope's "I Never
> Left Home" on Capitol DOES because it consists of four monologues with
> troop audiences.  Do the W.C. Fields records have an audience?    The
> Borge Columbia LPs should also count.  He stood much of the time.  They
> contrast greatly from the 78s because of the audience, and the Sam
> Levenson records are notable because although the audience seems coached
> in the first two sessions, the last record Baby and My Landlady do not
> have an audience and have a different feel about them.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> On 4/8/2011 12:42 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>> 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/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. #:?)
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