Jonathan Winters - Wonderful World of
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Music CD Cover Artist: Jonathan Winters Edition: Music CD Format: Import, Soundtrack CD Release Date: 2003-01-21 Music Label: Laugh.Com/Fontana Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Wonderful World of Album
Free Music Review: Wonderfully Funny and Inventive Stuff
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this as an LP way back in 1960. I listened to it so much that I eventually could quote a lot of the routines from memory. I still laugh at them, all these years later. The marvelous thing is that Jonathan made them up on the spot, in front of a Las Vegas audience. He does wonderful takes on:
o A typical prison picture ("How did he get two Sherman tanks in here? Don't tell me he snuck those in in a loaf of bread.")
o A typical western movie ("All of a sudden, there's the 7th Cavalry. Seven members of the U.S. cavalry, just happened to be riding along about 3,000 miles from the fort. The leader rides up on a white horse. The rest of 'em have dirty horses, enlisted people.")
o A hip version of Robin Hood (Robin shoots an arrow. Whistling sound effect, and it hits something. "That'll teach you, Daddy").
There's a college football game where the homecoming queen has a voice like Broderick Crawford, a hungover airline pilot ("The engines, all of them, are missing...We'll be about 500 feet all the way"), and the Marine Corps in World War II, about to hit the beaches (First Lieutenant: "That should give you some idea of what you'll be up against tomorrow morning when you disembark....I'd hoped to be able to go with you. But they need me here.")
I foolishly gave the album away years ago, and I was overjoyed to find a used copy in a record shop later on. Naturally, I grabbed it. Now, happily, it's available on CD. You should grab it, too.