[Dixielandjazz] Stan Freberg

[mmckay]

"What was that???????  (French horns)" has always been our favorite.

Mart

Martin D. McKay, Designated Listener 

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[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Don Robertson
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:08 PM
To: David Dustin
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Stan Freberg

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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