Rare Friar's Club LP - Burns, Benny, Linkletter, Jessel
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This is a private issue LP titled in pen on the white label: "Friar's Stag Dinner For Harry Joe Brown." A roast of the film director by his friends George Jessel, George Burns, Jack Benny, and Art Linkletter. Very Funny and suprisingly raunchy for it's time (definitely the only time I have heard George Burns talk about contracting "Cupid's Eczema" and drop the F-bomb). I have never seen another copy featuring this line up. I believe it was recorded around 1950 because there are several references to Brown's being 60 years old at the time and he was born in 1890. Disc is in Ex condition and has no jacket. Comes in a VRP sleeve. Shipping outside the US is about 16 dollars and I will pay for insurance. On Harry Joe Brown (from wikipedia): Harry Joe Brown ( Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 22, 1890- Palm Springs, California April 28, 1972) was a movie producer and supervisor who was also a theatre and film director . Brown died from a heart attack . As producer, he was notably involved in the fruitful partnership with director Budd Boetticher , actor Randolph Scott and screenwriter Burt Kennedy which generated a series of fine westerns between 1957 and 1960 ( The Tall T , Decision at Sundown , Buchanan Rides Alone , Ride Lonesome , and Comanche Station ) through a company he created with Randolph Scott which eventually assumed
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