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Dinner Music For People Who Aren’t Very Hungry-Spike Jones Demonstrates Your Hi-Fi (1956)

1 Space Ship Landing 0:19 2 Assorted Glugs, PBRTS & SKKS 0:32 3 Ramona 1:10 4 Duet For Violin And Garbage Disposal 1:49 5 The Black And Blue Danube Waltz 4:12 6 Stark’s Theme 1:24 7 The Old Sow Song … Continue reading

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Sing Along With JFK,Laugh Along With Nixon-George Atkins and Hank Levine

Begin Anew for Two Let Us Begin Beguine Alliance for Progress Bossa Nova Ask Not Waltz The Trumpet Let the Word Go Forth Nixon at the Hilton strIKE!

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Magoo In Hi-Fi-Jim Backus (1956)

A1 Magoo Opening A2 Le Jazz Warm A3 Portrait Of Mr. Magoo A4 Wormwood Scrubs March A5 If I Had The Wings Of An Angel Arranged By – Dennis Farnon A6 Wormwood Scrubs March – Closing Mother Magoo Suite B1 … Continue reading

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Mrs.Miller’s Greatest Hits (1966)

Record companies couldn’t rush out imitators fast enough. All fell like stones. Elva Miller was a true original. She couldn’t sing a note yet sold a lot of albums and made appearances on TV’s top variety shows. You had to … Continue reading

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“My Son,The Greatest”-The Best Of Allan Sherman

Sherman sold a ton of records in the 60’s featuring song parodies. For those not familiar with his work this is the perfect introduction. Nineteen tracks on this collection. Of course it features “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!”. There was a lot … Continue reading

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The King Of Novelty-Works 1956-1959-Dickie Goodman

Goodman along with Bill Buchanan were the first to paste bits of songs with dialogue to make some of the best selling novelty hits of the 50’s. Goodman kept going for decades but the best were still from the 50’s. … Continue reading

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Wonderful Nonsense-Fun Songs Of The Roaring Twenties 2 CD’s

Just like the title says, fun stuff from the early days of recordings. This is what was crackin’ ’em up back in the days of flappers and frat boys with racoon coats with a flask or two inside. Forty tracks … Continue reading

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Something Like This:The Bob Newhart Anthology 2 CD’s

The best of the “Button-Down Mind” LP’s and a few others. Comedy was king when those albums came out and this compilation shows how and why Newhart broke through to a mass audience and never slowed down. CD #1 highlights: … Continue reading

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Pardon My Blooper series-Produced by Kermit Schaefer

Very popular series of mistakes made on radio and TV. The earliest is Harry Von Zell introducing President Herbert Hoover as “Hoobert Heever” in 1931. Some of the bloopers were recreations since they happened live and Schaefer didn’t have a … Continue reading

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A Pause In The Disaster-The Conception Corporation (1970)

A very funny and very hard to find comedy album. If you spot it in a used book/vinyl store and like to laugh, grab it. Highlight bits include: “Dial A Dirty Joke”, “Sunday, Sunday”, “Disease Broker” and “Acid Rescue Service.”

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