Bob Newhart - Button Down Mind Strikes Back
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Artist: Bob NewhartEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-04-28
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Automation/A Private in Washington's Army
- The Grace L. Ferguson Airline (And Storm Door Co.)
- Bus Drivers School
- Retirement Party
- An Infinite Number of Monkeys
- Ledge Psychology
Free Music Notes for Button Down Mind Strikes Back
Free Music Review: Cerebral Shtick
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are late 30-something/early 40s like I am, then your earliest memories of Bob Newhart are most likely of Newhart as nonplussed psychologist Bob Hartley in his early 1970s TV show with Suzanne Pleshette. To this day, nobody deadpans like Newhart, and every so often, Hollywood honors him by giving him the unflappable straight man role, most recently playing Will Ferrell's adoptive father in "Elf."
But, for those of my father's generation, they first heard Newhart's incredibly funny one-sided phone conversation routines in nightclubs in the late 1950s/early 60s.
Newhart was the biggest name in standup comedy during the first half of the '60s, a title he relinquished to the up-and-coming Bill Cosby in the latter part of the decade. Listen to this CD re-release of his excellent follow-up album from 1960, and you'll find out why.
His bits are so perfectly timed, that even when he's done a routine hundreds of times, it still sounds fresh. Newhart was a sort of forerunner to the comic strip Dilbert: Starting out as an accountant, you can hear in his pieces "Automation" and "Retirement Party" why he stopped being another C.C. Baxter and turned to comedy instead.
The best bit on this album, though, is "The Grace L. Ferguson Airline (And Storm Door Co.)." He brings the house down with this single line "and we climbed into her Volkswagen..."
"Ledge Psychology" is Bob's foray into black comedy, if you think about it. It's just that his somewhat naive demeanor allowed him to get away with making it sound merely eccentric.
Imagine Drew Carey (who modeled his persona after Newhart's early 1960s skinny tie, buttoned-down look) with Steven Wright's mind, and you'll get why Newhart was so big.
Also, here's a great comedy album you can let your kids listen to. Here's where the rubber meets the road: Everyone says that Lenny Bruce was the most revolutionary comic in the last 50 years. But, take away the four letter words, and is Bruce as funny?
Newhart never had to work blue because he's a natural funny man. Forty-five years after he first hit the scene, there's a good reason he's still in demand and this album's still in print.
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