Lenny Bruce The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce Fantasy Records, M 87003, Mono Track 1 Religions, Inc. Track 2 Ike, Sherm and Nick The Kid in the Well (listen in RealAudio) Track 3 Psychopathia Sexualis Non Skeddo Flies Again (beg.) Track 4 Non Skeddo Flies Again (concl.) Adolph Hitler and M.C.A.   Selections recorded in 1958 in San Francisco. Cover photo by Bill Thomas posed by a professional model. Of course, all the locales, personages, and organizations on this album are the product of Lenny Bruce's fertile imagination and any resemblence to persons, places, and groups living or dead is purely coincidental, cela va sans dire. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

I don't know how many 8-tracks were released of Lenny Bruce's comedy albums, but I'd love to find more. This one is killer, especially the bit that fills the entire first track: "Religions Inc." There's not enough space here to even begin to discuss Lenny here; I'll leave that to you and www.Altavista.com .

Lenny blazed the modern day stand-up comic trail, influencing all that came after him. He was the one who defied conventions, the law, and the system, and was taken down by it all in the end. Lenny changed the whole ballgame talking openly about sex and other taboo subjects. In August of 1966, with his career and finances in tatters, Lenny Bruce died of a heroin overdose at the age of 40. His life story became a movie starring Dustin Hoffman. His visionary work changed the world of comedy forever.

PARTIAL DISCOGRAPHY
1959	Togetherness	Fantasy
1961	Carnegie Hall Concert [live]	Capitol
	What I Was Arrested For: the Performance...	Columbia
	Live: Busted	Vipers Nest Go
1958	Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce	Fantasy
1963	Thank You Masked Man	Fantasy
1958	Interviews of Our Time	Fantasy
1960	American	Fantasy
1959	I Am Not a Nut, Elect Me	Fantasy
?	To is a Preposition; Come is a Verb	Douglas
?	Midnight Concert	United Artists
?	Live at the Curran Theater	Fantasy
1961	Carnegie Hall	United Artists
1958	The Lenny Bruce Originals, Vol. 1	Fantasy
1960	The Lenny Bruce Originals, Vol. 2	Fantasy
196?	The Berkley Concert

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