Comedy/Spoken -- In Stock -- LPs  

Excellent stuff from Blow Fly -- and a great bit of funk that's a hilarious parody of disco! Blow's band funks it up with riffs that you'd hear from The JBs, BT Express, or other groups of the time -- while Blow himself sings these very off-color, and very funny lyrics that rip off the overt... read more

Routines include "Toga Saga (A Greek Fantasy)", "Sahara", "Carmen", and "Orchids To Alice".... read more

Worth it alone for the Brighter Side of Darkness send-up "Basketball Jones", but with other classic skits, including quite a few that aren't about pot, believe it or not, like "White World Of Sports", "Evelyn Woodhead Speed Reading Course" and "The Strawberry... read more

A pretty strange album of "hip" fairytales and fables, recorded by jazz DJ/hipster Al Jazzbo Collins, alongside a group featuring Steve Allen, Hal Blaine, and Terry Gibbs. The approach is a bit square, but the album's also got the appeal of those late 50s beatnik sessions -- with... read more

A classic live set from Bill Cosby -- recorded at Harrah's Hotel in Reno, Nevada -- back in 1973, when he was still pretty darn hip! As you'd guess from the title and cover, the emphasis here is on stories and bits involving Fat Albert -- the Cosby creation that was then playing big time in... read more

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Nothing psychedelic here, but in our book Redd Foxx is always a trip! The set's a classic batch of live material cut for the Loma label -- with Redd very much in his own element, performing before a very well-lubricated audience at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas! The album's a lot funnier than... read more

Years before Redd Foxx broke onto the TV mainstream in the 70s, he was already drawing big crowds in Vegas -- thanks to wonderfully strong material like you'll hear on this LP! Foxx's presentation here is wonderful -- careful enough on topics to reach a crossover audience, but also down to earth... read more

Redd Foxx doing is thing live in '75 at the Apollo -- his return to recording after 12 years without a comedy album! You Gotta Wash Your Ass was cut while Sanford & Son was still in production -- making this blue performance a gritty return to form for Foxx! It isn't as flamboyantly raw as... read more

Beautiful righteousness from poet Nikki Giovanni -- a wonderfully put together session that features her reading her own poetry over musical backings, plus some added choral bits from the New York Community Choir! The sound is completely right on -- never too over the top, and never too cliched --... read more

A fantastic album of bad-rapping spoken material from Iceberg Slim -- one of the hippest 70s sets of its type, and a great audio tribute to the man who wrote the books Pimp, Trick Baby, and Mama Black Widow! Slim reads his own work in a very laidback style, but one with a slinky, pimpish feel too -... read more

A classic speech by Jesse Jackson -- one that became quite a hit for Stax's Respect subsidiary, and which was one of the better selling albums of its type in the early 70s. The album was recorded back in the days before Jesse had become a bit of a cliché, when he appeared to be emerging as... read more

Classic Motown album of two of Dr. King's speeches -- "Drum Major Instinct Sermon", from 2/4/68, and "I've Been To The Mountain", from 4/3/68. The latter is especially significant in that it was the last speech King ever made, delivered on the night before he was assassinated. ... read more

A tasty collection of some of the best work the Last Poets ever recorded -- their early sides for Douglas records, a perfect blend of jazz, percussion, and poetry -- hence the very apt "Jazzoetry" title! The album mostly features tracks from the albums Last Poets and This Is Madness --... read more

The first album by the second group to call themselves the last poets -- comprised of Abiodun Oyewole, Alafia Pudim, and Omar Ben Hassan, plus the percussionist Nilaja. The album's as fierce a document of their rich talents as you'll ever find -- bursting forth with anger and righteousness at a... read more

The first album by the second group to call themselves the last poets -- comprised of Abiodun Oyewole, Alafia Pudim, and Omar Ben Hassan, plus the percussionist Nilaja. The album's as fierce a document of their rich talents as you'll ever find -- bursting forth with anger and righteousness at a... read more

The first album by the second group to call themselves the Last Poets -- comprised of Abiodun Oyewole, Alafia Pudim, and Omar Ben Hassan, plus the percussionist Nilaja. The album's as fierce a document of their rich talents as you'll ever find -- bursting forth with anger and righteousness at a... read more

Long before there was any talk of gangster rap, Jalal of the Last Poets recorded this album of gamblin', pimpin', and hard double dealin'. It's a fantastic album-long ride through the dark side of the black underworld, and is the aural equivalent of a blacksploitation flick. Music by Kool and the... read more

Cover has some water damage near the bottom -- a tiny bit of peeling on the front, and some staining on the back.... read more

Ah, the genius of 70s stardom! This one may not play that well for today's kids, but we're floored by the sheer magnitude of the record's stars -- a huge list that includes Don Rickles, Alan King, Rich Little, Suzanne Pleshette, Burt Reynolds, Karen Valentine, McLean Stevenson, Charo, Vincent... read more

A fantastic album -- one of our favorite-ever records from Charles Mingus! The album was recorded in the same breath as his legendary works Tijuana Moods, The Clown, and Pithecanthropus Erectus -- and it features the same sort of fire and emotion that made those classics so great. The group alone... read more

The tenth album in Rudy Ray Moore's classic 70s run for Kent Records -- and every bit as raunchy as the first! Rudy's energy at this point is amazing -- a never-ending stream of social commentary, street language, and bad-rapping braggadocio -- set to some rough-edged rhythms that make for a live... read more

Classic stuff -- Rudy's first album, and a fitting launch to his famous career of party records and live club performances! The cover's got Rudy in front of a nude black model, laying back on the couch, and encouraging him to do the thing that's implied by the title -- but the record itself is far... read more

One of the best of the Rudy Ray Moore raunchy party albums from the 70s, and one that must be seen to be believed! The cover has "Rudy" standing nude with "The Madam" -- but the man on the front really isn't Rudy, as you can plainly see that his face has been pasted over the... read more

Remember when Eddie Murphy used to standup? We do! Cut around the time he was still on SNL, just before Delirious came out and filled with hilarious skits like "Buckwheat", "Talking Cars", "Hit By A Car", "Drinking Fathers", and "Black Movie... read more

Pryor really busted into the mainstream with this one -- as the album secured him a grammy for best comedy LP in the year it was released. Recorded live in San Francisco, at Don Cornelius' Soul Train -- with tracks that include "Wino & Junkie", "Flying Saucers", "Black... read more

Amazing stuff from Melvin! Like all of his films, this is a mad mix of insanity and wisdom -- put together with enough violent clashes of culture to shake anyone up. Funk, soul, poetry, and righteousness blend into a great batch of tracks! Includes groovy cuts like "Lilly Done the Zampoughi... read more

A rare bit of hardcore poetry by the Watts Prophets -- the legendary LA group who were kind of a west coast answer to the Last Poets! The group have a sound that's as striking as the best early work by The Last Poets -- a hard-hitting blend of poetry, rhythms, and righteous energy -- all recorded... read more