Woody Allen (album)

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Woody Allen
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Live album by
Woody Allen
ReleasedJuly 1964
RecordedMarch 1964 at Mister Kelly's, Chicago
Genre Comedy
Lengthc.37 minutes
Label Colpix CP 518 [1]
Woody Allen chronology
Woody Allen
(1964)		Volume Two
(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.

Contents

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]

Awards

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
1964 Grammy Award Best Comedy Album Woody Allen AlbumNominated [6]

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] [8] ), San Francisco, August 1968 (Capitol #2986); [9] [10] were reissued, in 1972, as a gatefold 2-LP record set, Woody Allen: The Night Club Years 1964-1968, [11] [12] [13] , in 1978, as a gatefold 2-LP record set, Woody Allen: Standup Comic, [7] 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]

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References

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  2. ↑ Stang, JoAnne (November 3, 1963). "Verbal Cartoons: They happen when Woody Allen talks of life, death and why his toaster hates him" (PDF). The New York Times Magazine. The New York Times. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 16, 2022. Retrieved September 5, 2023. Woody Allen profile
  3. 1 2 Marion Meade (2000). The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography. Simon and Schuster. p. 62. ISBN   978-0-684-83374-3.
  4. ↑ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. July 25, 1964. p. 50. ISSN   0006-2510.
  5. ↑ Koster, Rick (November 10, 2012). "John Mulaney talks standup, "SNL" and pirates". The Day . Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Woody Allen". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
  7. 1 2 Allen, Woody. "Woody Allen: Standup Comic". discogs. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
  8. ↑ Allen, Woody. "Woody Allen: Standup Comic". cover
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  10. ↑ "Rare Woody Allen Stand-Up Comedy From the 1960s to Be Released". Time.com . September 22, 2014. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
  11. ↑ Allen, Woody (1972). "The Night Club Years 1964-1968". discogs.com. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
  12. ↑ Allen, Woody (1978). "Woody Allen standup comic, 1964-1968". Stanford University library. Los Angeles, Calif: United Artists. Retrieved September 5, 2023. 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).
  13. ↑ "Woody Allen : Night Club Years 1964-1968 (LP, Vinyl record album)". dustygroove.com. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
  14. ↑ "Woody Allen's Sixties Stand-Up Albums Reissued". Rolling Stone magazine. September 22, 1964. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
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