National Lampoon - The Best Of The National Lampoon Radio Hour (1996)
The set is in FLAC format. I was going to convert it to mp3 but I just do not have the patience or the attention Span any more to relabel each and every file. FLAC is a lossless format and can easily be converted to mp3 if you have the patience to relabel all the files. -------------------------- R
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National Lampoon - The Best Of The National Lampoon Radio Hour
Label: Rhino
Original Release Date: March 26, 1996
Performers/Musicians:
* George Agoglia
* Anne Beatts
* John Belushi
* Richard Belzer
* David Blum
* Adolph Caesar
* Bob Caliban
* Christopher Cerf
* Chevy Chase
* George Coe
* Steven Collins
* Rhonda Coullet
* Wendy Craig
* Billy Crystal
* Sid Davis
* Brian Doyle-Murray
* Joe Flaherty
* Martin Harvey Friedberg
* Gerry Graham
* Christopher Guest
* Nate Herman
* Bob Hoban
* Paul Jacobs
* Leon Janney
* Sean Kelly
* Doug Kenney
* Tom Leopold
* Brian McConnachie
* Bill Murray
* Michael O'Donoghue
* Bob Perry
* Alice Playten
* Gilda Radner
* Harold Ramis
* Lee Richardson
* Norman Rose
* Stan Sawyer
* Tony Scheuren
* Vernon Taft
* Gracie Whitebread
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Tracklist(s):
Disc 1:
1. Intro (Worldwide Short Wave Radio Motif)
2. Advanced Malignant Tumor of the Brain - Anne Beatts
3. "You Don't Have to Look at the Pictures on the Radio" - David Blum
4. Theatre Times for "The Ryan O'Neal Story", Pt. 1 - Gracie Whitebread
5. Lost Glider - Bob Perry
6. N.L.R.H. Program I.D. - Gracie Whitebread
7. Marlon Brando Interview - John Belushi
8. Theatre Times for "The Ryan O'Neal Story", Pt. 2 - Gracie Whitebread
9. Little Miss Muffett (Otis Redding Parody) - Christopher Cerf
10. Theatre Times for "The Ryan O'Neal Story", Pt. 3 - Gracie Whitebread
11. True or False? - Robert Dryden
12. American Safety Institute: Remember to Brush
13. Comedy of Patrol Officer Tim O'Malley - George Agoglia
14. Loan Arranger - John Belushi
15. Can a Match Burn Twice? (Pt. 1) - Robert Dryden
16. Public Disservice Message: Mental Hospitals - Brian McConnachie
17. Can a Match Burn Twice? (Pt. 2) - Robert Dryden
18. Laughs from the Past - Bob Perry
19. What If Ed Sullivan Were Tortured? - Michael O'Donoghue
20. Canadian Newsreel - Bob Perry
21. Quick Canada Quiz, Pt. 1 - Brian McConnachie
22. Comedy of Cardiologist Dr. Andrew Tillman - Richard Belzer
23. Quick Canada Quiz, Pt. 2 - Brian McConnachie
24. Natlamp Unto My Feet, With the Rev. Otto A. Brown - Bob Caliban
25. N.L.R.H. Program I.D.: Honk Honk...Why, It's Wobbles the Goose! - Robert Dryden
26. Methadone Maintenance Man (James Taylor Parody) - Tony Scheuren
27. Front Row Center: "Death of a Salesman" - Robert Dryden
28. Light Your Faith - Norman Rose
29. Indianapolis Academy of the French Accent - Chevy Chase
30. Mel Brewer's Insomnia Time, With Ron Fields, Pt. 1 - Christopher Guest
31. Sperm Whale Song - John Belushi
32. Mel Brewer's Insomnia Time, With Ron Fields, Pt. 2 - Christopher Guest
33. N.L.R.H. Promo (Muhammad Ali) - Billy Crystal
34. House Rules - David Blum
35. Let Us Speak English - Sid Davis
36. N.L.R.H. Promo (Al Jolson) - Sid Davis
37. Flash Bazbo, Space Explorer - Christopher Guest
38. Stand Up - Brian Doyle-Murray
39. Mr. Veal Chop Commercial Intro - Bob Perry
40. Closet Queen - Christopher Guest
41. Interview With the Hollywood Gay Alliance - John Belushi
42. Closet Queen [Reprise & Closing] - Christopher Guest
43. Public Disservice Message: The Salvation Army - Brian McConnachie
44. Comedy of News Anchor Robert K. Chancellor - George Agoglia
45. Frank Rizzo: The Philadelphia Police League for Retarded Children - George Agoglia
46. And the Winner Is... - John Belushi
47. Comedy of Psychiatrist Dr. Ricky Johnson - George Agoglia
48. Dick & Jane Show - Christopher Guest
49. Which of the Ten Commandments Am I Breaking? - Gerry Graham
50. Baby Brando - John Belushi
51. N.L.R.H. Promo (Yodeling) - Christopher Guest
52. Southern California Brings Me Down (Neil Young Parody) - Tony Scheuren
53. Fred Purdue's Chicken Commercial - Tom Leopold
54. Comedy of King Faisal - John Belushi
55. Public Disservice Message: Zip Codes - Brian McConnachie
56. Natlamp Unto My Feet, With Father Joseph Vazinni - Richard Belzer
57. Outro (Worldwide Short Wave Radio Motif)
Disc 2;
1. Channel Surfing (Cheech & Chong Parody) - Brian Doyle-Murray
2. Intro (Outer Limits) - Brian Doyle-Murray
3. Harry Block: 417 Reasons Why You Should Let Us Do Your Income Tax-Reaso - Lee Richardson
5. Turtle Woman - Christopher Guest
6. Harry Block: Reason #110 - Lee Richardson
7. Immigrants: The Hillbillies - John Belushi
8. Gift of the Nazi's (Show Promo) - Christopher Guest
9. Harry Block: Reason #408 - Lee Richardson
10. Suicide Prevention Hotline/N.L.R.H. Program I.D. - Chevy Chase
11. Well-Intentioned Blues (Pete Seeger Parody) - Christopher Guest
12. At the Tone from the Time You Called... - Gracie Whitebread
13. Handy Household Hint - Bob Perry
14. Universal Bank Commercial - George Coe
15. Request Time: "Gigi" - John Belushi
16. Humor Test, With Dr. Chevy Chase - John Belushi
17. Alternative Child - John Belushi
18. 1973 Miss America Pageant - Chevy Chase
19. Timex Watch Commercial - David Blum
20. N.L.R.H. Program I.D. /The Jimmy Dugan Story - John Belushi
21. Quick Canada Quiz (Pt. 3) - Brian McConnachie
22. Harry Block: Reason #287 - Lee Richardson
23. Quick Canada Quiz: The Answer - Brian McConnachie
24. Interview With Ali & Foreman - John Belushi
25. Great Mountain Valey Drinking Water & Brite Toothpaste Commercial - Sid Davis
26. Scuzzy Linoleum Commercial Intro - Wendy Craig
27. Steppin' on a Spaniel
28. Car Cheese Commercial Intro - Wendy Craig
29. Harry Block: Reason #177 - Lee Richardson
30. How Often Have You Said to Yourself... - Adolph Caesar
31. Police Auditions - John Belushi
32. Guru Craig Baker, the Perfect Master - John Belushi
33. Insincere Commercial Intro - Wendy Craig
34. Harry Block: Reason #356 - Lee Richardson
35. You Put Me Thru Hell (Joni Mitchell Parody) - Nate Herman
36. Vulcanized Sneakers Commercial Intro - Bob Perry
37. Mr. Whipple Commercial Goes Wrong - John Belushi
38. What Do You Recommend from the Menu? - Garry Goodrow
39. N.L.R.H. Disclaimer & Warning - Christopher Guest
40. Cheech & Chong Parody (Conclusion) - Brian Doyle-Murray
42. Outro (Scottish Announcer) - Christopher Guest
Disc 3;
1. Disclaimer Intro: "Due to the Explicit Nature..." - Christopher Guest
2. Tommy Toilet - Christopher Guest
3. Flash Bazbo in a Restaurant - Christopher Guest
4. Bill Bradley of the New York Knicks - John Belushi
5. Flash Bazbo, Space Explorer: The Adventure Continues - Christopher Guest
6. Bob the Rapist - Anne Beatts
7. I'm a Little Stiff from Polo - Rhonda Coullet
8. Legal Disclaimer (Muhammad Ali) - Billy Crystal
9. Music Perspective, With Ron Fields, Pt. 1 - Brian Doyle-Murray
10. Overdose Heaven - Christopher Guest
11. Interview With Don Corleone - John Belushi
12. Monolithic Oil Commercial - Robert Dryden
13. Straight Man Auditions - John Belushi
14. Music Perspective, With Ron Fields, Pt. 2 - Brian Doyle-Murray
15. Every Day I Feel Depressed (B.B. King Parody) - Christopher Guest
16. Dial-A-Curse - Robert Dryden
17. Guru Craig Baker, the Perfect Master Visits a Bar - John Belushi
18. Limerick Time, Pt. 1 - Ed Subitzky
19. American Safety Institute: Mad Dogs - Chevy Chase
20. Limerick Time, Pt. 2 - Ed Subitzky
21. Flash Bazbo, Space Explorer: Chapter 219 - Christopher Guest
22. Classic Riddles - Ed Subitzky
23. Public Disservice Message: Care Packages to Europe - Brian McConnachie
24. Classic Riddles, Pt. 2 - Ed Subitzky
25. Santa Cupcakes Recipe - Gilda Radner
26. Littlest Christmas Tree - Brian Doyle-Murray
27. Evil Santa - Bill Murray
28. Rod Serling Explains the First Christmas - Christopher Guest
29. A&P Commercial: The Death Penalty for Shoplifting - George Coe
30. Hockey "Guillotine" - Wendy Craig
31. National Lampoon's Call-In, Pt. 3 - Garry Goodrow
32. Classics of the Contemporary Drama: "Waiting for Godot" - John Belushi
33. Mother Goose's Wine - Christopher Guest
34. Al Capone on Trial - John Belushi
35. National Lampoon's Call-In, Pt. 3 - Garry Goodrow
36. Rosenburgs - Martin Harvey Friedberg
37. National Lampoon's Call-In, Pt. 3 - Garry Goodrow
38. Terminal Football - John Belushi
39. Highway Toes (James Taylor Parody) - Christopher Guest
40. Classics of the Contemporary Drama: "The Idiot" - Christopher Guest
41. National Lampoon's Call-In, Pt. 3 - Garry Goodrow
42. Outro (English Announcer) - Michael O'Donoghue
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The National Lampoon Radio Hour ran from November 17, 1973 to December 28, 1974, and was broadcast weekly on hundreds of stations throughout the U.S. It was one of the best radio comedy shows ever produced, and introduced many talented and now well-known perfomers to a national audience for the first time. Among the performers that appeared regularly or irregularly were Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Christopher Guest, Michael O'Donoghue, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer, Harold Ramis, Joe Flaherty, Richard Belzer, Tony Scheuren, Windy Craig, Flo & Eddie, George Coe, Gary Goodrow, Norman Rose, and Alice Playten, just to name a few.
The show was the brainchild of NatLamp editor Michael O'Donoghue. After the success of the comedy album Radio Dinner, he was able to convince publisher Matty Simmons to let him do a weekly radio show. A recording studio was built several floors above the magazine's editorial offices on Madison Avenue in New York. Teaming up once again with producer Bob Tischler, the talented engineer who had worked with O'Donoghue and Tony Hendra on Radio Dinner, the show successfully transfered the humor of the magazine to a radio format. Like the magazine, the show had a highly professional, understated style which hightened the effect of its often shocking sense of humor.
The show used up an incredible amount of material each week and strained the resources of the magazine. As a result, it was cut to a half hour after 13 shows. It also had a hard time retaining national sponsors, due partly to the content of the show, and consequently did not do very well financially. O'Donoghue, drained of energy and patience, left the show--and the magazine--for good on Easter Sunday in 1974. John Belushi took over as creative director of the show for the remainder of its run.
After the show ended, many of the performers and writers went on to both Saturday Night Live (where O'Donoghue was the head writer in its first two seasons) and Second City Television. Among the original cast and writers on SNL were Radio Hour alums Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, and Anne Beatts (writer), and later on Bob Tischler (producer for four seasons), Brian McConnachie (writer), Bruce McCall (writer), Brian Doyle-Murray, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest. It would not be far-fetched to say that early SNL was, for all intents and purposes, the National Lampoon TV Hour, with no credit given to the magazine for blazing the trail. As for SCTV, its original cast and writers included Harold Ramis and Joe Flaherty. (It should be noted here that many of the NLRH cast were hired from Second City Comedy Clubs in both Chicago and Toronto--so the connection goes very deep.) Tischler also went on to produce the Blues Brothers albums.
Much of the material from the show was released on LPs by National Lampoon. Records released by NatLamp consisting either entirely or in part of NLRH material were The Missing Whitehouse Tapes (1974), Gold Turkey/Radio Hour Greatest Hits (1975), That's Not Funny, That's Sick! (1977), Greatest Hits of the National Lampoon (1978), and National Lampoon's White Album (1979). Of these, Gold Turkey is the only one to my knowledge that was released on CD (still available, too). Some of the shows were rebroadcast in the '80s by the King Biscuit Flower Hour in a somewhat different format (i.e., with more commercials and with some shows combined and abridged). (Two of these broadcasts are listed here.) Also released by NatLamp in the early '90s were three volumes on cassette called National Lampoon Radio Hour: The Lost Tapes, though they are very difficult to find. Most recently, Rhino (bless their hearts) released The Best of The National Lampoon Radio Hour (1996). This 3 CD/cassette boxed set is the largest single collection of material from the show. It has great liner notes, but unfortunately has more than a little previously released material, not to mention a photo of someone misidentified as Brian McConnachie and a few factual errors.
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Review by Richie Unterberger
In the mid-'70s, the National Lampoon's syndicated radio hour brought the magazine's irreverent humor to the airwaves in the form of sketches, fake commercials and public-service announcements, and pop-music parodies. It also gave exposure to several comedians who would soon become famous as cast members of Saturday Night Live (John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase), as well as other top acts such as Richard Belzer and Christopher Guest. This three-CD box set has over three hours of material originally broadcast between 1973 and 1975. For all its influence on American humor via Saturday Night Live and other post-Lampoon projects of the writers and performers, it's really not all that funny. Much of it's geared toward stoned teenagers and college students whose outrage threshold, at least in the mid-'70s, was presumably pretty low. Decades later, there aren't nearly as many taboos associated with satires of bad standup comedians (a particularly insistent theme here), drug pushers, Marlon Brando, talk radio hosts, hippies, and homosexuals. There are some genuinely funny moments here and there, and the musical parodies (of Otis Redding, James Taylor, Pete Seeger, Neil Young, and others) are often dead-on, particularly the savage Joni Mitchell spoof, "You Put Me Thru Hell." But if you and your pals have long retired that bong to the back recesses of the closet, it won't sound nearly as thigh-slapping as it used to. Others might well wonder what exactly was so funny about most of this stuff in the first place.
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I forgot to thank the original poster. They put a lot of work into this post. The labeling of tracks alone is mind boggling when you take into consideration the average person's typing skill. Happy Thanksgiving Steve from the other side of the table LOL.
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Same to you, Rick.
You're the BEST, Ricksta!!!
Happy Thanksgiving James! ----------------------------------------------------------- R
Many thanks, Rick!