I would _highly_ recommend that you get yourself a copy Here's Johnny: Magic Moments From The Tonight Show which came out 1974 on Casablanca Records. And by get yourself a copy, I really meant download it - link here - as the album has been out of print for a good 30 years. I got my copy at a Salvation Army. You can find them on eBay for under $10.
The George Carlin skit, fifth track on the first LP, is about growing up in Queens and is wonderful and amazing. He talks about beating up Yankees fans, getting into gang fights, and... well, fighting. Also, race relations. And baseball.
There's no real boring track on the album. I mean, hell, you've got 27 interviews, skits, songs, and monologues by and with the likes of Ike and Tina Turner, Richard Nixon, Groucho Marx, Lucille Ball, Billie Holiday, Lenny Bruce... hell, even the Glen Campbell song is decent. And the comedy is decidedly dirty fun, which is great. Richard Nixon - on right before his presidential run in 1968, I believe - even tries to get in on it, though oddly enough he just comes off like a dick.
Here's the track list:
01 Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon - The Beginning.mp3
02 Jay Silverheels - Tonto Tonto.mp3
03 Bette Midler - Lullabye Of Broadway, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.mp3
04 Groucho Marx - Father's Day.mp3
05 George Carlin - Morningside Heights.mp3
06 Pearl Bailey And Johnny Carson - Our Love Is Here To Stay.mp3
07 Doc, Ed and Johnny - What A Band.mp3
08 Doc Severinsen and His Sweetheart Band - Ode To Billy Joe.mp3
09 Peter Falk.mp3
10 Jack Webb.mp3
11 Ike And Tina Turner - I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine.mp3
12 Lucille Ball.mp3
13 Luci Arnaz - Seesaw.mp3
14 Desi Arnaz Jr.mp3
15 Art Fern And The Teatime Movies.mp3
16 Lenny Bruce - The Discovery.mp3
17 Billie Holiday, Judy Garland And Aretha Franklin.mp3
18 Smothers Brothers - Bolt That Cabbage Down.mp3
19 Richard Nixon.mp3
20 John Twomey.mp3
21 Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon And Dean Martin.mp3
22 Dean Martin, Johnny Carson And Buddy Hackett.mp3
23 Jack Benny.mp3
24 Jerry Lewis, Joey Bishop And George Burns.mp3
25 Glen Campbell - Indiana.mp3
26 Don Rickles.mp3
27 Sammy Davis Jr - Singing In The Rain.mp3
I've had an account here for a while but I haven't done a damn thing about it.
I'd like to change that.
Hi! My name is Yoni. I have a normal blog-thing over on LiveJournal. I don't always feel like being a big music nerd over there and so I figured I'll do that here. I like all sorts of music, from Roky Erickson to Rastafarian chanting to Brother Ali to, I don't know, Dystopia, the Beatles, the Dead Milkmen, Madonna and shit. I also do a radio show every Sunday night on WKDU 91.7 FM in Philadelphia, Drexel University's Free Format Radio Station. I think that's the full ID. I always forget the second part.
My show is called Talk of the Town and it's better than anything else ever.
I made a promise to myself years ago to not be embarassed by any of the music I like. I think if everyone felt that way, we'd be able to beat the hipsters at their own game and life would be better. Also, world peace.
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so, is that DUFF radio?
Welcome to the Mog. Looking forward to hearing some of your stuff. When you post music upload it yourself so it becomes a red button and everyone can play it. If you let Rhapsody find it for you it will come out yellow and a lot of people, me included, won't be able to listen to it. Easiest way to "fool" the system from trying to locate the song for you is to put a double space in front of the track title when you tag it.
Also, couldn't follow link to your show.
And Mog just added some new features today so things seem to be a bit buggy at the moment, don't let that discourage you.
OK, hey, good to have you aboard!!!
DUFF?