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No one did deadpan like Bob Newhart. No one talked on the phone like Bob Newhart, either; or, rather, we ALL talked on the phone like Bob Newhart, and so this one-time advertising copywriter from Oak Park, Illinois, who won a recording contract solely on the basis of his homemade tapes of his one-man, two-way phone calls prior to ever performing in front of a live audience, became the most popular comic of the early ‘60s. The rest of Bob’s history is pretty well-known, particularly his long and successful sitcom stint on network television, but these four albums are the one part of his comic legacy that remains largely unexplored; never reissued on CD, they’ve been out of print for decades. Here's your chance to collect Bob Newhart's last four Warner Brothers record albums in the Bob Newhart Collection, Vol. 2 4 CD set. So just say "Hi, Bob" and prepare to laugh out loud at the "Duke of Deadpan"!
Bob Newhart Collection, Vol. 2 4 CD set is brand new; each of the four individual CDs that comprise this collection is unopened, unplayed and still in its original factory shrink wrap. Button up the hatches and button down your mind with 4 classic albums of deadpan humor featuring...
The Button-Down Mind On TV
Did you know there was another “Bob Newhart Show” besides the one that ran for seven years in the ‘70s? It was different in two ways from its namesake: one, it was a comedy/sketch variety show instead of a sitcom, and, two, it totally flopped! But Bob wrote some truly inspired material for that short-lived 1962 program, and so this album, which compiled his funniest bits, didn’t flop, but went to #26 on the charts. Includes “Introducing Tobacco to Civilization”, in which Bob places a call to Sir Walter Raleigh; there's also a look into how to tell your friend that his precious pet dog is a vicious monster (if at all), a speculation on what it would be like if chariot corporations in ancient Rome were run like modern car companies, and amateur bomb defusing. Pure genius!
- Introducing Tobacco To Civilization
- The Siamese Cat
- Defusing A Bomb
- A Friend With A Dog
- General Chariot Corp.
- The Hold Out Huns
Bob Newhart Faces Bob Newhart This 1964 album made hay of Bob's short-lived and unsuccessful foray into television with 'Reflections on TV Commercials' and 'Amateur Show Contestants', and provided a rare glimpse beyond Newhart's on-stage persona with 'The Expectant Father', which relates the story of the birth of his first child and his trip to the hospital. But probably the most hilarious routine is 'Nudist Camp Expose', which imagines reporters at a nudist camp and what happens to them when they try to get home!
- Reflections On TV Commercials
- Amateur Show Contestants
- Nudist Camp Expose
- The Expectant Father
- On Poodles And Planes
- The Man Who Looked Like Hitler
The Windmills Are Weakening
Bob's last charting album (from 1965) is a triumph, starting with the first track, 'Superman and the Dry Cleaner', which features Clark Kent arguing with the dry cleaner that lost his Superman suit! Then there's 'King Kong', which imagines a security guard's first day on the job contending with a certain super-sized simian, and 'Ben Franklin in Analysis', which pits Newhart's renowned psychoanalytic powers against the historical figure's troubling tendency to fly kites in thunderstorms.
- Edison’s Most Famous Invention
- King Kong
- The Upset Stomach Commercial
- Returning A Gift
- Superman And The Dry Cleaner
- Buying A House
- Ben Franklin In Analysis
This Is It!
This 1967 album was it for Bob, marking his last comedy release before devoting himself full-time to television and the movies, but it’s quite the comedic swan song - wait for the punch line on “Pussy Cat”!
- Prenatal Twins
- Daddy Of All Hangovers
- Topless Clubs
- On Trains And Planes
- Modern Witch Doctor
- Pussy Cat
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