By Their Coffee You Shall Know Them: Thursday A&R, part 1
on 11/11/2010 at 12:01 AM
Oh ho, a birthday challenge! “The Frederick Kolb ancient recording collection”? Google turns up ... nothing germane at all!
Must. make. more. effort. Spin up the brain, engage clutch.
Kolb. Kolbe. Kulb. Fredrick. ... turning up nada. Genealogy; who cares?
Hmm ... it seems to be a joke. Big tough Wild Bill orders a fru-fru cocktail. Fairly innocent in nature. Frederick Kolb comedy recordings from long ago?
Thomas Edison’s Greatest Comedy Hits recorded on wax cylinders? From 1883 to 1916? Re-released by United Artists on mono vinyl in 1966? Holy cow, that’s so old it’s archaeology! Makes me feel young, instead of half a century old today!
Drew ... leave it to you to , as the Brits would say, sus it all out.
If you want a laff a minute, get the recording. I had no idea it was even available.
Some many years ago when working at KFI in LA, I was given a reel to reel tape of these guys.
I was told they were the fellows who were the writers on the Steve Allen show.
At first, I thought it was real, and you’d have to listen to the opening intro
and the very dramatic announcer to see why it was at first taken seriously. But as soon as you hear the first giggle, well you know then the jig is up.Although it helps a lot to be Jewish to grasp the little hidden nuances, there is one routine about Jewish Indians fighting the hated white man. It’s roll on the floor time funny.
Since I have no way of adding the audio here and my tape is somewhere in the desert, I had to make up my own intro here. I thought it would still be funny, but the audio of course takes first place. What talent those guys had. Just shows how funny folks can be without using gutter language for a cheap laugh.
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11/11/2010 at 08:13 AM
