Woody Allen (album) explained

Woody Allen
Type:live
Artist:Woody Allen
Cover:Woody Allen Colpix album.jpeg
Released:July 1964
Recorded:March 1964 at Mister Kelly's, Chicago
Genre:Comedy
Length:c.37 minutes
Label:Colpix CP 518[1]
Chronology:Woody Allen
Next Title:Volume Two
Next Year:1965

Woody Allen is a live 1964 comedy album by the American comedian[2] and later notable film director Woody Allen. This was Allen's debut recording, and was recorded at Mister Kelly's nightclub in Chicago.[3] It was the first of three comedy albums released by Allen.

It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance at the 7th Annual Grammy Awards in 1965; it lost to Bill Cosby's album I Started Out as a Child, which coincidentally had also been recorded at Mister Kelly's.[3]

Reception

Billboard magazine highlighted the album as a Comedy Spotlight in their July 25, 1964 issue and wrote that "He is a very funny fellow. The material is uniformly hilarious throughout the album. Of course Allen's delivery is polished to a point whereby he may soon be the nation's No 1. comedian".[4]

Track listing

  1. "Private Life"
  2. "Brooklyn (incl. Floyd)"
  3. "The Army"
  4. "Pets (incl. Spot)"
  5. "My Grandfather"
  6. "My Marriage"
  7. "The Bullet"
  8. "N.Y.U."
  9. "A Love Story"
  10. "The Police (incl. Library Book, Neanderthal)"
  11. "Summing Up"

Personnel

Influence

Many comedians have cited Allen's influence on them and their work. In an interview John Mulaney specified that he had listened to Allen's 1965 album.[5]

1964–1968

Three albums, Woody Allen, recorded at Mr. Kelly’s in Chicago, March 1964 (Colpix release #515); Woody Allen Volume 2, recorded at The Shadows, Washington D.C. (Colpix release #488), April 1965; and The Third Woody Allen Album, recorded at Eugene's ("a cabaret dedicated to raise money to aid Eugene McCarthy"[7]), San Francisco, August 1968 (Capitol #2986);[8] [9] were reissued, in 1972, as a gatefold 2-LP record set, Woody Allen: The Night Club Years 1964-1968,[10] [11] [12] in 1978, as a gatefold 2-LP record set, Woody Allen: Standup Comic,[13] and in 2014, as a CD boxset, Woody Allen: The Stand-Up Years: 1964–1968.[14] [15]

Woody Allen On Comedy

Woody Allen On Comedy was released by Laugh.Com, tracks, of which, are provided to YouTube.[16] [17]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Woody Allen – Woody Allen. discogs.com. July 25, 2016.
  2. News: Stang . JoAnne . JoAnne Stang . Verbal Cartoons: They happen when Woody Allen talks of life, death and why his toaster hates him . 5 September 2023 . The New York Times Magazine . The New York Times . November 3, 1963 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220616162019/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/stang.pdf . June 16, 2022 . Woody Allen profile.
  3. Book: Marion Meade. The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography. 2000. Simon and Schuster. 978-0-684-83374-3. 62.
  4. Book: Billboard. July 25, 1964. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 0006-2510 . 50.
  5. Web site: John Mulaney talks standup, "SNL" and pirates. Koster. Rick. November 10, 2012. The Day. September 17, 2021.
  6. Web site: Woody Allen. GRAMMY.com. August 31, 2018.
  8. News: WELTANSCHAUUNG, VOL. 3 . 5 September 2023 . HiFi/Stereo Review . worldradiohistory.com . January 1969 . 75.
  9. News: Rare Woody Allen Stand-Up Comedy From the 1960s to Be Released . 5 September 2023 . . 22 September 2014 . en.
  10. Web site: Allen . Woody . The Night Club Years 1964-1968 . discogs.com . 5 September 2023 . en . 1972.
  11. Web site: Allen . Woody . Woody Allen standup comic, 1964-1968 . Stanford University library . United Artists . 5 September 2023 . Los Angeles, Calif . 1978 . First performance. Private life (5:43) ; Brooklyn (3:47) ; The army (1:20) ; Pets (1:06) ; My grandfather (:53) ; My marriage (2:47) ; Bullet in my breast pocket (:47) ; N.Y.U. (2:27) ; A love story (3:32) ; The police (5:08) ; Down south (3:49) ; Summing up (1:25) Second performance. The vodka ad (4:54) ; Vegas (1:34) ; Second marriage (7:48) ; The great Renaldo (2:11) ; Mechanical objects (5:38) ; The moose (2:38) ; Kidnapped (2:54) ; Unhappy childhood (2:43) ; The science fiction film (1:48) ; Eggs benedict (1:36) ; Oral contraception (:27) ; European trip (5:43) ; The lost generation (2:21)..
  12. Web site: Woody Allen : Night Club Years 1964-1968 (LP, Vinyl record album) . dustygroove.com . 5 September 2023 . en.
  14. News: Woody Allen's Sixties Stand-Up Albums Reissued. September 22, 1964. Rolling Stone magazine. July 25, 2016.
  15. News: Murphy . Mary Jo . Woody Allen’s Early Stand-Up Years . 5 September 2023 . The New York Times . 15 January 2015.
  16. Web site: Allen . Woody . Wilde . Larry . Woody Allen . Larry Wilde . Writing . youtube . Laugh.com, Inc. . 12 September 2023 . 2001-07-24 . Wood Allen on Comedy.
  17. Web site: Allen . Woody . Woody Allen On Comedy; Laugh.Com – LGH 1043 . discogs . 12 September 2023.

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