Like a biblical flood we have reached at last the forty post mark
And it's a live one.
Literally so.
January 1960 - lsp-2161 - At the Country Club
So here we are at the dawn of the 1960s and all the tumult that would come and Homer & Jethro kick it off with a live record.
This is one of the first ones of theirs I heard and I think that's one of the reasons I became a fan in the first place. Comedy as a rule tends to have a short shelf life. Topical stuff that's hilarious one year is passe the next and sometimes the things that seemed funny twenty years ago are just cringe inducing watching in later years. (I'm looking at your "M.A.S.H." and "Cheers") This one for the most part still works. A lot of it has to do with timing and delivery. They honed their chops and their schtick over years and years of live work and seem to generally be enjoying themselves.
Perhaps you'll enjoy yourself too.
For this particular record I've taken the liberty to split it up into individual tracks with songs and comic interludes between songs. That way you can just listen to the musical portions without the talking bits if you so choose. It just seemed like the polite thing to do.
Listen and absorb. Soak in it a bit. Let words and phrases from it seep into your normal conversations. It's good for you
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