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Young and Foolish (album)

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Released
  
1967

Length
  
54:36

Producer
  
Peter Lloyd

Genre
  
Comedy

Label
  
Emerald Music

Recorded
  
1967, At the Ulster Group Theatre

Young and Foolish is the second comedy album released by Northern Irish comedian and actor James Young.

Contents

The album cover features a picture taken by Stanley Matchett. In the picture Young and his business partner Jack Hudson are standing on the back of an Ulster Transport Authority bus. Each man has a speech bubble coming from his mouth. Husdon's states "James Young in" with Young's replying "Young and Foolish". The back cover features a poem and sleeve notes written by John Knipe.

Side 1

  1. Meet James Young - 13:24
  2. Surgery Hours - 6:19
  3. The Stranger - 4:19
  4. Jumper Room - 2:41

Side 2

  1. The Centre Forward - 4:00
  2. Time For Love - 4:20
  3. A Man's Best Friend - 3:17
  4. The Presentation - 5:36
  5. A Boy Looks At Life - 5:02
  6. Salute to Belfast - 3:15

Re-release

Emerald Music re-released the album in 1999 in a four-disc boxset to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of Young's death. The album was boxed with three of Young's other comedy albums (The Young Ulsterman, Very Much Live In Canada and Behind the Barricades). The album was marketed as James Young: Ireland's Greatest Comic Legend Volume 1.

References

Young and Foolish (album) Wikipedia