Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1: WHEN THE GOOD ROAD IS CLOSED, THE BAD ROAD WILL NEVER BE OPEN:
1. Are There Any Niggers Here Tonight?
2. Clap, The
3. Lenny on Comedy Pt. 1
4. On Third Shows
5. Father Flotsky's Triumph
6. Lima, Ohio
7. Introduction to "The Palladium"/Annie Ross/What Was I Talking About?
8. Palladium, The
9. Explanation of Frank Dell and Bullets
10. Censorship on the Steve Allen Show
11. Taking Requests/Hip Diseases
12. Lawrence Welk Story, The
13. How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties - (with Eric Miller)
14. Gotta Split
15. Lenny on Playboy's Penthouse - (with Nat "King" Cole/Hugh Hefner)
DISC 2: I WANNA POUR GAS ON YOU!:
1. Testing the Sony Microphone
2. Lenny on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts - (with Arthur Godfrey/Sally Marr)
3. Critics/Club Owners
4. Monster Routine With Hecklers
5. I've Never Been in Love Before
6. Religions, Inc.
7. Lenny Interview - (with Studs Terkel)
8. Airplane Glue
9. Phone Company, The
10. My Trip to Miami
11. Psycho Doctors/Faye Bainter/Jack Paar
12. Ike, Sherm & Nick
13. Non Skeddo Flies Again
DISC 3: BEN WEBSTER IS JEWISH (1961-1962):
1. Working Carnegie Hall
2. Point of View
3. Christ and Moses
4. Spanish Harlem
5. Joke, The
6. Pretty Bizarre Show
7. Dirty Toilet/Bad Early Toilet Training
8. If Your Body Is Dirty, The Fault Lies With the Manufacturer
9. What Should Be/What Is
10. C.E. Hocksey Letters/My Father Solomon Osterow
11. To Is a Preposition; Come Is a Verb
12. Blah Blah Blah
13. Dick Tracy Is an Orthodox Jew
14. Milton Berle/Dykes/Homosexuality
15. Cops/Where the Heat Are
16. Going to Court/Wear a Blue Suit
17. S.F. Gossip/Jewish & Goyish/Cat Downstairs Taping Show
18. Phantom, The
19. Would You Want Your Sister to Marry One of Them?
20. Chick Singer With a Gimmick
21. Billy Graham Is Not Qualified
22. Touch It Once
23. Black Cat/Get Stuffed/Why Did You Lie to Me?, The
24. Closing/Will Rogers Quote
25. Lawrence Welk the Hipster
26. Hubert's Museum
DISC 4: I WOULDN'T WORK THIS SHITHOUSE TOWN FOR FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS:
1. I Just Do It and That's All
2. Ruby the Robot
3. Mort Sahl, Shelley Berman, Jack Parr, Joey Bishop & Phyllis Diller/The Reason I Wear the Coat
4. Why the Breakfast Show
5. Meaning of Obscenity Pt. 1/Drew Pearson's a Son of a Bitch, The
6. Norman Rockwell/The Jazz Scene
7. Word or the Act/We F***** the Mothers For Chocolate Bars, The
8. Jimmy Hoffa/Castro & Cuba
9. Thank You Mask Man
10. Dangerous Drugs/Marijuana
11. Jews Killed Christ
12. Marilyn Monroe/Narcotics vs. Juice
13. You Don't Remember Me, Do You?/You're So Classic...Smoking a Cigar
14. Kennedys/Jonathan Winters
15. W.C. Fields the Anti-Semite/Hookers on Record
16. Meaning of Obscenity Pt. 2, The
17. San Francisco Bust/Judge Entrapment
18. Act Is Kissin' & Huggin', The
19. Las Vegas Pt. 1/Johnny Mathis
20. I'll Show You How Prejudiced You Are
21. Corrupt Cities/Chicago Schtarkers/Shelley Berman
22. Audience Banter/Why Doesn't He Do the Bits on the Records?
23. Lenny on Comedy Pt. 2
24. Snot
25. Nerve of Faggots, The
26. Hooker That Balled the President
27. Divorce/Get Even/Stag Movies vs. King of Kings
28. Norman Thomas/Filipinos/Midgets
29. Las Vegas Pt. 2/Pearl Bailey
30. Australia
31. Bela Lugosi & Wallace Beery/Entrancing Transylvania/Herb Caen
32. Warning, The (With Long Island Police Officer)
DISC 5: YOU BETTER BRING YOUR TOOTHBRUSH:
1. Best Man in the Tribe, The
2. Tribunal, The
3. Schmuck
4. Reading the Court Transcript
5. Pissing in the Sink
6. Jewish & Goyish
7. Philly Bust/Judge Axelrod
8. T*** and Ass
9. Never Cop Out
10. Jackie Kennedy Hauls Ass/Selling Out Your Country (A.K.A. Hot Lead Enema)
11. Dick Gregory
12. Census Takers
13. Barry Goldwater/The Truth About Men/Doing It to a Chicken
14. LBJ
15. Toilets/Flashers/Mark Eden Bust Developer
16. How the Law Got Started (Eat, Sleep & Crap)
17. Playing Milwaukee
18. Marijuana/Flashers/Confusion/Bust in the Audience
19. Lenny Gets Busted Onstage & Audience Gets Id'd
DISC 6: SIGN A RELEASE? I DIDN'T DO MY FAG AT THE BALLGAME BIT YET!:
1. All Alone
2. Heroin Bust, The
3. Juror Phone Calls Re: The Heroin Bust
4. Zeidler & Zeidler Commercials (With Honey & Kitty)
5. Eleanor Roosevelt Had Nice T***
6. Religions, Inc.
7. Phone Call Reading a Letter
8. Christ & Moses
9. Phone Call to Harry Kalvin
10. Describing the Fillmore West/Yorty & La
11. Southern Accents
12. Art and a Big Piece of S*** (With Anonymous Friend)
13. I Picked on the Wrong God
14. My Name Is Adolf Eichmann
| | Details | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Considering what an enormous impact Lenny Bruce had on modern social mores, satire, politics, and entertainment, it's surprising that a box set of his material didn't appear until nearly four decades after his 1966 death. LET THE BUYER BEWARE presents six discs' worth of Bruce at his best. Shockingly, it consists predominantly of previously unreleased recordings. For as much fine Bruce work as there is on previous releases, the mercurial, spontaneous nature of his art was such that even the performances that had fallen through the cracks, as on this set, were masterpieces in and of themselves.
Listening to Bruce's humanistic but uncompromising skewering of everything from legal and moral hypocrisy to jazz musicians and fellow comedians, it also becomes apparent how much craftsmanship actually went into his free-wheeling style. Many of the routines heard here exist in different forms on other Bruce albums, and comparisons reveal the masterful manner in which Bruce would branch off and experiment even within a predetermined framework. While some of the references may sound dated to 21st-century ears, the incisive themes and expert comic technique in abundance on LET THE BUYER BEWARE make it clear why Bruce remains an iconoclastic legend.
| | Editorial reviews | 5 stars out of 5 - Bruce challenged contentment, especially when polished in the gloss of hypocrisy. He spoke the language of jazz in his monologues, which were more like free-form satirical essays and psychodramas laced with Yiddish slang than standup bits.
Down Beat
[T]he definitive audio-biography of Bruce as a revolutionary craftsman and antic wit.
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