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15 tracks including narration with sound effects by Bob & Ray, who wander through this recording meeting up with Dr. Ahkbar in his castle, and "The Thing". ... Read more

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A Unique 1950's Time Capsule
I love this oddball disc. It is a cornucopia of American post-War popular culture -- radio humor, pop music, Broadway hits, RCA "Living Stereo" audiophile culture, "world music" golden oldies, and -- the bonus -- cover art by Mad Magazine's Jack Davis. This is the sort of eclectic but thoroughly middlebrow stuff that was in the living rooms of America when the LP was an exciting thing. And the more one listens to it, the more weird and revealing it is.

Not Your Normal Bob & Ray...
In the 1950's, record companies and phonograph manufacturers distributed albums designed to demonstrate the "stereo effect," aimed primarily at people who were either contemplating or had just purchasedtheir first "high fidelity" audio system. Most of these albumshad bizarre audio effects (such as sounds moving around the room in acircle or ping-ponging between speakers) to exaggerate the stereo"experience."

For whatever reason, RCA asked Bob & Ray todo a stereo demonstration album. This is it. The album consists of comedysegments parodying the excesses of other stereo demos, separated by one ofthe strangest collections of musical performances you'll ever hear on onerecord. (Imagine Lena Horne, Julie Andrews and Abbe Lane sharing an albumwith the Radio City Music Hall Organ and The Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band.)The musical performances, with the exception of the Guckenheimer Sour KrautBand, are all straight, and all of them were simply lifted from other RCAalbums of the time (1958).

You won't hear any of the Bob & Rayclassic comedy routines, but the audio demonstrations by "Dr.Ahkbar" they concocted will still get you laughing. If that's notenough, you can enjoy the pseudo-lounge music of George Melanchrino, DickSchory's New Percussion Ensemble, or The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra. (Ifyou've never heard of any of them, join the club.) ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Ebony, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1004 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The greatest African-American sex symbols.(EBONY 60)
Publication: Ebony (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 61Issue: 1Page: 152(4)

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Playbill: The Pirates of Penzance, Minskoff Theatre, November 1981 (November) (View amazon detail page) ASIN: B000Q3YLE2Title: Playbill: The Pirates of Penzance, Minskoff Theatre, November 1981Publication date: 1981 ... Read more