[Dixielandjazz] Stan Freberg

[Don Robertson]

Yeah, even my wife talks about our Thanksgiving guests "starting on 
their little nut cups"

Don Robertson



David Dustin wrote:
> ³Advertising Man² Stan Freberg¹s sense for satire is amazing and his
> time-warped interpretation of history and heavy use of music makes him my
> favorite comedian.  Since Pat Ladd asked, ³Stan Freberg Presents the United
> States of American, Vol. I² came out in the early 1960s as a stereo
> performance because Stan loved radio and sound performance, touted his
> ³Theatre of the Mind,² and especially disliked television. (One of his other
> shticks is ³Tele-Vee-Shun,² with backing by Billy May. Another is ³Anybody
> Here Remember Radio?²)  I suspect I¹m another Freberg fan who has memorized
> every line of that album in the decades since its release.
>
> Freberg loved/loves (I believe he¹s still alive) big-band jazz and was a
> conspicuous foe of rock and roll.  His bits lampooned Elvis, Calypso music
> (among other targets) and he had a long professional relationship with Billy
> May, whose big band performances on ³the United States of America² are so
> hot they smoke.  The shtick about ³Bix,² the cool-jazz fifer who thought
> he¹d be playing for officers¹ club dances in our war of independence instead
> of working near the front lines, has always been a particular favorite.
>
> Stan made a cameo appearance in the film ³It¹s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World². The
> definitive Stan Freberg is ³The Tip of the Freberg: The Stan Freberg
> Collection 1951-1998.²  It has 4 CDs of everything he recorded as well as a
> videotape of some of his funny commercials and other bits and pieces. It
> came out in the early 1990s.
>
> David Dustin
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