eddie harris comedy lp

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i googled and came up empty- is it even on atlantic? can you share some bits from it for chewy?

[JSngry]

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:kb6jtr7qklox

The bottom of the two here:

Funny in small doses, but Redd Foxx did it better.

Eddies comedy on A Tale Of Two Cities, however, is priceless.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

, and Harris gives his record company a nice little stab-in-the-back at the close.

?!?!??!

[JSngry]

Eddie was a lot more complex a person than a casual listen to a lot of his records would suggest...

[JSngry]

The Atlantic comedy record is pretty coarse stuff, not really all that funny overall. Like I said, Redd Foxx (and others) did the same thing better (meaning funnier). Too much of Eddie's comed here is just crude w/o being funny.

But there are a few snippets of some really, really amazing electro-funk placed between some of the bits. Pretty mind-blowing stuff in that vein.

Look for a copy in the used LP bins, and don't go too much over five big ones.

[jazzbo]

"I'm going to see EDDIE HARRIS"

That's the funniest bit in my opinion.

[chris olivarez]

Redd Foxx did do it better and so did Richard Pryor but at the time I first heard it Eddie seemed pretty damned funny. I got the reissue for more than five big ones and while a case can be made that I overpaid,it was worth it because I revisited it and discovered that it wasn't that funny and got it out of my system.

On a related note a few years ago the bluesman Mem Shannon recorded a cd called "Cab Drivers Blues". Shannon drove a cab in New Orleans and he would record some of his fares and leet me tell you those were some off the wall conversations. He would intersperse those conversations with some of his music. The reason I'm bringing this up was I couldn't help but think that it would've been neat if Eddie would've alternated some of his standup with the music he was performing at the time in complete form instead of just a sample. Oh well-Que Sara!!!!