Lily Tomlin - This Is a Recording
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Artist: Lily TomlinEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Music Label: Laugh.Com/Fontana
Product features:
- look and look
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Mr Veedle
- The Marriage Counselor
- Joan Crawford
- Obscene Phone Call
- The Repairman
- The Bordello
- Strike
- Peeved
- Ernestine
- The Pageant
- The FBI
- The Mafia And The Pope
- Mrs Mitchell
- Awards Dinner
- Boswick
- IBM
Music reviews of This Is a Recording
Music Review: This album is hilarious!
Rating: 5 Stars
All you need to do is look at the cover to this album, which features Lily Tomlin doing what she does best: playing Ernestine, the telephone operator who loves to insult her callers, and that's what you get here. This is a Recording was originally released in 1971 on Polydor (a label I usually associate with music), at the same time when she was still a member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Recorded live at the Icehouse in Pasadena, this album proves that she can do 40 minutes of Ernestine and do it successfully (where on Laugh-In, Ernestine only appeared two or three times each show, each lasting a couple minutes). Some of my favorites include her calling Joan Crawford in which Ernestine demanded her dime back because the Pepsi machine didn't dispense her pop (Crawford was once head of the Pepsi company, that explains why). Another, of course, is the classic "Mr. Veedle" (which is a mispronunciation of "Vidal", as in Gore Vidal). My favorite line is "When shall we expect payment? What? When what freezes over? Oh, [snort] Mr. Veedle, that is so cute". There's also "The Pope and the Mafia", which totally cracks me up, for Ernestine mistakes a mafia boss for the pope (she says things like, "Do you believe in brotherhood?", "Do you believe in large families?", "Do you drive a large black car?"). And then there's "Peeved" which is Lily Tomlin playing not Ernestine, but herself as an incoherant talker (she often done that on Laugh-In). Some of the material presented on this album might be dated, and of course, there's a lot of references relevant to the time, but might be over the heads of some who hadn't lived through that era, or hadn't studied up on that era. Regardless, I had the time of my life listening to this album, it's hard to believe a 30+ year old record got me laughing so hard (except, perhaps, a Frank Zappa album, but that's another story). This album is all the proof you need to understand how Lily Tomlin became one of the biggest names in comedy. So if you're a Tomlin fan, especially her Ernestine character, this album is a total must.
Description of This Is a Recording
The chart-topping debut album from quite possibly the greatest female standup comic of all time! Lily was fresh from her Laugh-In success when Polydor released this record in 1971, and rest assured her beloved character Ernestine ('One ringy-dingy...two rMiscellaneous CDs
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