Released 1989 Language English Release date 1989 | Recorded 1988 Artist Morton Downey Jr. Genre Country rock | |
Label Compose Records
Peter Pan Industries | ||
Morton downey jr sings hey mr dealer
Morton Downey Jr. Sings was an album by talk show host Morton Downey Jr. released in 1989.
Contents
- Morton downey jr sings hey mr dealer
- Morton downey jr sings hey there mr dealer
- Reception
- Songs
- References
When released it had advanced orders of more than 500,000 copies.
Downey promoted the album by performing the song "Hey Mr. Dealer" on an episode of The Arsenio Hall Show.
Morton downey jr sings hey there mr dealer
Reception
The Los Angeles Times called it the worst album of the 1980s.
The New York Times said, "Mr. Downey's singing is in the gruff country mode of Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson but lacks the emphatic firmness of tone and pitch that gives even spoken monologues by those singers an underlying sense of musical cadence. Morton Downey Jr. Sings is anything but subtle."
The New York Times also said the music qualified as country pop.
In 2016, the album came in at #2 on a "Top 10 Musical Oddities" list for the Alternative Nation website.
Songs
1Blue Collar King4:30
2Operate - Operate2:56
3Old Man4:17