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His Royal Hipness (CD)

By: Lord Buckley (Artist)
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DISC 1 for His Royal Hipness (CD) Album By Lord Buckley (Artist)
1   Nazz, The
2   Gettysburg Address
3   Hip Gan, The
4   Cabenza De Gasca, The Gasser
5   Jonah And The Whale
6   Marc Antony's Funeral Oration
7   Nero
8   People (Epilogue)
 
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Title Note

Recorded in Los Angeles, California in 1951. Originally released on Elektra Records (74047). Includes liner notes by Charles Tacot.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Monologist Richard "Lord" Buckley was equal parts beatnik versifier, wigged-out aristocrat, standup comic, and snake-oil salesman. There's a bit of Buckley in everything from the hipster comedy/philosophy of Lenny Bruce to the neo-beat musings of Tom Waits. HIS ROYAL HIPNESS captures Buckley in full flight in 1951. His modus popular modus operandi--the telling of well-known tales from history and literature in '40s/'50s jazzman vernacular--is demonstrated at it's finest here.

Buckley underlines the inherent coolness of Joseph and Mary's son in "The Nazz," delivers a thumbnail biography "in hip" of Ghandi in "The Hip Gan," and takes a bop era stab at "Marc Antony's Funeral Oration." One of Buckley's most effective comedic devices was the conflict between his down-and-dirty colloquializing and his mock-magisterial bearing. That dichotomy, along with all the other comedic elements at Buckley's disposal, is played to the hilt on HIS ROYAL HIPNESS.

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