Tip of the Freberg presents four CDs and one VHS-format videotape of classic comedy from the legendary master who paved the way for Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon. This is the definitive collection of the sarcastic but sophisticated Freberg magic, including the best of his famous routines and satirical songs plus unreleased goodies new and old. The set also contains the first-ever CD of his hilarious radio ads and the video has award-winning TV commercials that he wrote and directed. The snappy package comes complete with an actual X-ray of Freberg's skull and it is lovingly annotated with details of who played the music (exotica big kahuna Les Baxter wrote some of the band arrangements), what Freberg's writing and working methods were, and who supplied the characters' voices. (Not surprisingly Freberg did many of the vocal parts himself--he's a capable singer and actor.) The older material remains funny stuff, and the liner notes provide the depth of historical context. This is not a box set that will be played once and then put on the shelf. Everything on Tip of the Freberg is good for repeat plays and hours of laughs in the years ahead. --John Sulak
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Tip of the Freberg presents four CDs and one VHS-format videotape of classic comedy from the legendary master who paved the way for Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon. This is the definitive collection of the sarcastic but sophisticated Freberg magic, including the best of his famous routines and satirical songs plus unreleased goodies new and old. The set also contains the first-ever CD of his hilarious radio ads and the video has award-winning TV commercials that he wrote and directed. The snappy package comes complete with an actual X-ray of Freberg's skull and it is lovingly annotated with details of who played the music (exotica big kahuna Les Baxter wrote some of the band arrangements), what Freberg's writing and working methods were, and who supplied the characters' voices. (Not surprisingly Freberg did many of the vocal parts himself--he's a capable singer and actor.) The older material remains funny stuff, and the liner notes provide the depth of historical context. This is not a box set that will be played once and then put on the shelf. Everything on Tip of the Freberg is good for repeat plays and hours of laughs in the years ahead. --John SulakCustomer Reviews:
Yes, but.......2007-07-29
...so there needs to be another collection, one with more of "Stan Freberg here..", his other audio recordings, the PBS special, scattered writings for an enclosed booklets, etc.
And no commercials. I think I resent Freber's descent into advertising, since it proved he could be a funny ad man, but that's what it was. Ad man. Snake Oil with a good name. The advertising took him away from what he did best, and gave us less of Freberg than we wanted.
The Great American Satirist.......2007-03-28
This is indeed only the tip.......2006-07-19
While this will most certainly be a hit with die-hard fans, newcomers will find that this collection serves as the perfect introduction to the world of Freeberg by highlighting some of his best work. This is an essential in any CD library.
Stan the Man! A Wonderful Trip Down Memory Lane!.......2006-03-04
Classic Song Parodies Just Tip of Classic Freberg.......2004-01-09
Joined by a troupe of actors including voice-over giants June Foray, Paul Frees, and Daws Butler, and helped by Broadway-brassy Billy May arrangements, Freberg recorded sonically accurate but hilarious pop song parodies. An overechoed "Heartbreak Hotel" features Freberg's ersatz Elvis tearing three pairs of pants and a piano solo "close enough for jazz." "Sh-Boom" features inarticulate doo-woppers coached by a Stanley Kowalksi impersonator. (In his exhaustive liner notes, written with movelty music curator Barrett "Dr. Demento" Hansen, Freberg denies racism motivated his stinging attacks on the then-new music. He said he just liked jazz and wanted to understand the lyrics, which hardly explains his collaboration with Jesse White on hilarious if mean-spirited "The Old Payola Roll Blues".)
A "Yellow Rose of Texas" features an overactive snare drum which became a Freberg in-joke on subsequent hit records. Freberg also bit the TV hand which later fed him, parodying Lawrence Welk, Ed Sullivan and, in "Tele-Vee-Shun" practically putting Newton Minnow's "vast wasteland" speech to music. (But the version included here omits Freberg's closing shot, "But is it art?/Don't make me laugh." )
"Green Christmas," a huge, controversial 1958 hit, is arguably Freberg's finest moment. Transposing Dickens' "Christmas Carol" to Madison Avenue he successfully combines satire, (hear what happens to Tiny Tim) clever songs and genuine righteous anger to show ad agency Scrooges (who Freberg later served in his own fashion) "who's birthday we're celebrating." Coming when it did at a season in an era dominated by advertising, it's as clever and reverent to the true meaning of Christmas as any traditional holiday song, not to mention twice as funny.
"Tip of the Freberg" also includes portions of his two remarkable "Presents the United States of America" CDs, recorded nearly 40 years apart. But the last two discs lose some momentum. Apart from a haunting, darkly humored ad aimed at cutting off Vietnam war funding, you hope the milk and chow mein products Freberg wrote for had less filler than their ad upon ad repetition does on Disc 4. (Rhino, whose gathered some remarkable box sets, could cleverly have interspersed Freberg's commercials throughout the set for a more evenly funny listen.)
"The Conspiraski Theory" puts three of 1998's infamous news personalities into a smile-inducing but slight ditty, where prime Freberg could have turned it into a grand slam sketch. (That, plus his NPR "Stan Freberg Here" commentaries link him more closely to Fred Allen than Andy Rooney.) Even so, anyone wanting to understand the satirical, pun-filled, even seething 1950s humor - which inspired "Bullwinkle," the Firesign Theater, National Lampoon, David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld and every single commercial you've ever laughed at, should hear Freberg's work. Highly recommended, but if budget prohibits choose any of Freberg's one-disc Capitol collections or multi-disc sets from his radio show.
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