Woody Allen (album)
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Woody Allen is a live 1965 comedy album by the American comedian Woody Allen. This was Allen's debut recording, and was recorded at Mister Kelly's nightclub in Chicago.[2] It was the first of three comedy albums released by Allen, the three albums were issued in a 2014 boxset, The Stand-Up Years: 1964–1968.[3]
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.[2]
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 the nation's No 1. comedian".[4]
Track listing
- "Private Life"
- "Brooklyn (incl. Floyd)"
- "The Army"
- "Pets (incl. Spot)"
- "My Grandfather"
- "My Marriage"
- "The Bullet"
- "N.Y.U."
- "A Love Story"
- "The Police (incl. Library Book, Neanderthal)"
- "Summing Up"
Personnel
References
- ^ "Woody Allen – Woody Allen". discogs.com. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ a b Marion Meade (2000). The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography. Simon and Schuster. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-684-83374-3.
- ^ "Woody Allen's Sixties Stand-Up Albums Reissued". Rolling Stone magazine. 22 September 1964. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (25 July 1964). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN 0006-2510.
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