Pigmeat Markham - Crap-Shootin Rev
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Artist: Pigmeat MarkhamBrand: MARKHAM,PIGMEAT
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Music Label: Fuel 2000
Soundtracks:
- Introduction
- Your Wife Is Dirty
- The Crap-Shootin' Rev
- The Peeping Tom
- Indian Time
- Preachin' the Blues
- The Double Crosser
- Signifying Baby Seal
Music reviews of Crap-Shootin Rev
Music Review: Disappointing
Rating: 1 Stars
This CD came to me as a birthday present. I had never heard of Pigmeat Markham before and had no idea what to expect. So, kindly excuse the uninitiated anglocentric perspective.
The sleeve notes say he was born in 1904 and graduated via carnival shows and the black vaudeville circuit to being a fixture at Harlem's Apollo Theatre and an occasional guest on the Ed Sullivan show. Perhaps his main claim to fame was as the originator of the "Here Come the Judge" sketch (anyone remember NBC's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from the 1960s?), which isn't included here. "Hilarious" and a "legendary comedian", he died in 1981.
This CD seems to be a collection of his on-stage routines and dialogues (maybe dating from the 1940s? 1960s? - it doesn't say), characterized - perhaps inevitably - by poor volume balance and woolly sound quality. There's a lot of yelling and repeating of each other's lines, but perhaps this was the style of the time. His live audience at least is certainly appreciative.
For me, the most telling sentence in the sleeve notes is "During the 1960s, a new generation of comics such as Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby and Flip Wilson eschewed the uncouth slapstick routines that Pigmeat specialized in to concentrate on cerebral monologues that crossed them over into the mainstream." That's it in a nutshell, really: styles change, and this has become a museum piece.
Were I a New Yorker and 110 years old, I might conceivably have found some nostalgic enjoyment in it. As things are, it left me cold, albeit slightly regretful about 49 minutes that could have been far better spent.
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