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asv comedy
asv comedy
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS / JUST A BIT OF FUN - GEMS OF BRITISH COMEDY (5547) |
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Just A Bit Of Fun is exactly that: 22 more prime examples of warm-hearted, gentle comedy that have kept the British chuckling from 1929 to 1953. Simply reading the featured names will bring a happy glow of expectant pleasure: Robb Wilton, Arthur Askey, Frankie Howerd, Max Miller, Peter Ustinov and so many more. The huge range spans from Leslie Sarony's farmyard grunting on The Old Sow to the infectious laughter of Joyce Grenfell and Norman Wisdom in Narcissus.
[Item Code: 55993 CD: $11.00] |
| ARTHUR ASKEY / BIG HEARTED (5444) |
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A veteran of the classic British vaudeville scene would no doubt build up pretty thick skin, thus explaining comedian and songwriter Arthur Askey's courage in taking on as potentially menacing an adversary as the world's population of bees on "The Bee Song," included on this compilation featuring 25 tracks from 1938-49. Also includes "The Seagull Song," "Ding Dong Bell," "Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major," "She Was Very, Very Shy," "The Worm," "The Cuckoo" and others.
[Item Code: 37533 CD: $11.00] |
| JACK BENNY / RADIO STARS OF AMERICA (5595) |
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Comedian, vaudeville performer, film actor Benjamin Kubelsky was, as "Jack Benny" one of the most prominent early stars of American radio and, later, television. Benny became an enormously successful national figure with The Jack Benny Show, a weekly radio program which ran from 1932-1955, and was cnsistently among the most highly-rated programs during most of that run. In the shows he played a fictional version of himself with much fun alwaysbeing made of his proverbial cheapness and poor violin playing. This CD presents four hilarious extended excerpts from The Jack Benny Show between 1949 and 1952. One features Ronald and Benita Colman, who often appeared as his neighbors on the show.
[Item Code: 57127 CD: $11.00] |
| STANLEY HOLLOWAY / THE LION AND ALBERT (5483) |
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Londoner Stanley Holloway (1890-1982) was for decades a great British favourite of stage and screen. On stage his successes spanned from Kissing Time (1919) through to his immortal Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1956, and on film in 1964). His countless films began with The Rotters in 1921 and included those marvellous Ealing comedies such as The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt. On record his most lasting memorial is his unique series of monologues featuring Albert, Sam and other Lancastrian, Yorkshire or Cockney characters. Living Era's The Lion And Albert contains 20 of those classic monologues from the 30s, all perennial favourites. The unfortunate Albert both opens proceedings and returns near the end. There are six monologues about Old Sam's army experiences, from picking up his musket to being drummed out. And there's Holloway's paean in praise of Yorkshire Pudden, and the Cockney shame of wearing Brahn Boots, and so many more.
[Item Code: 56887 CD: $11.00] |
| SPIKE JONES / MUSICAL DEPRECIATION (5189) |
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25 hilarious tracks w. His City Slickers inc. "Cocktails For Two", "Behind Those Swingin' Doors", "Clink, Clink, Another Drink!", "Pass The Biscuits, Mirandy", "Leave The Dishes In The Sink, Ma" + 1941-45
[Item Code: 14562 CD: $11.00] |
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