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Woody Allen (album)

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Released
  
July 1964

Length
  
c.37 minutes

Woody Allen (1964)
  
Volume Two (1965)

Genre
  
Comedy

Label
  
Colpix CP 518

Recorded
  
March 1964 at Mister Kelly's, Chicago

Woody Allen is a live 1965 comedy album by the American comedian Woody Allen. This was Allen's debut recording, and was recorded at Mister Kelly's nightclub in Chicago. It was the first of three comedy albums released by Allen, the three albums were issued in a 2014 boxset, The Stand-Up Years: 1964–1968.

Contents

It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance at the 7th Annual Grammy Awards in 1965; it lost to Bill Cosby's album I Started Out as a Child.

Reception

Billboard magazine highlighted the album as a Comedy Spotlight in their July 25, 1964 issue and wrote that "He is a very funny fellow. The material is uniformly hilarious throughout the album. Of course Allen's delivery is polished to a point whereby the nation's No 1. comedian".

Track listing

  1. "Private Life"
  2. "Brooklyn (incl. Floyd)"
  3. "The Army"
  4. "Pets (incl. Spot)"
  5. "My Grandfather"
  6. "My Marriage"
  7. "The Bullet"
  8. "N.Y.U."
  9. "A Love Story"
  10. "The Police (incl. Library Book, Neanderthal)"
  11. "Summing Up"

Personnel

  • Scotty Schacter, Jerry De Clercq – engineer
  • Don Bronstein – photography
  • Jack Lewis – producer

    • References

    Woody Allen (album) Wikipedia
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