Music : Let the Buyer Beware
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by: Lenny Bruce
Amazon.com's Price: $69.98 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0826663710922
Format: Box set
Label: Shout! Factory
Manufacturer: Shout! Factory
Number Of Discs: 6
Publisher: Shout! Factory
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Sales Rank: 155
Studio: Shout! Factory
Disc 1:- Are There Any Niggers Here Tonight?
- The Clap
- Lenny On Comedy Pt. 1
- On Third Shows
- Father Flotsky’s Triumph
- Lima, Ohio
- Introduction To “The Palladium”/Annie Ross/What Was I Talking About?
- The Palladium
- Explanation Of Frank Dell And Bullets
- Censorship On The Steve Allen Show
- Taking Requests/Hip Diseases
- The Lawrence Welk Story
- How To Relax Your Colored Friends At Parties (with Eric Miller)
- Gotta Split
- Lenny On Playboy’s Penthouse (with Hugh Hefner & Nat “King” Cole)
Disc 2:- Testing The Sony Microphone
- Lenny On Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts (with Arthur Godfrey & Sally Marr)
- Critics/Club Owners
- Monster Routine With Hecklers
- I’ve Never Been In Love Before
- Religions, Inc.
- Lenny Interview (with Studs Terkel)
- Airplane Glue
- The Phone Company
- My Trip To Miami
- Psycho Doctors/Faye Bainter/Jack Paar
- Ike, Sherm & Nick
- Non Skeddo Flies Again
Disc 3:- Working Carnegie Hall
- Point Of View
- Christ And Moses
- Spanish Harlem
- The Joke
- Pretty Bizarre Show
- Dirty Toilet/Bad Early Toilet Training
- If Your Body Is Dirty, The Fault Lies With The Manufacturer
- What Should Be/What Is
- C.E. Hocksey Letters/My Father Solomon Osterow
- To Is A Preposition; Come Is A Verb
- Blah Blah Blah
- Dick Tracy Is An Orthodox Jew
- Milton Berle/Dykes/Homosexuality
- Cops/Where The Heat Are
- Going To Court/Wear A Blue Suit
- S.F. Gossip/Jewish & Goyish/Cat Downstairs Taping Show
- The Phantom
- Would You Want Your Sister To Marry One Of Them?
- Chick Singer With A Gimmick
- Billy Graham Is Not Qualified
- Touch It Once
- The Black Cat/Get Stuffed/Why Did You Lie To Me?
- Closing/Will Rogers Quote
- Lawrence Welk The Hipster
- Hubert’s Museum
Disc 4:- I Just Do It And That’s All
- Ruby The Robot
- Mort Sahl, Shelley Berman, Jack Parr, Joey Bishop & Phyllis Diller/The Reason I Wear The Coat
- Why The Breakfast Show
- The Meaning Of Obscenity Pt. 1/Drew Pearson’s A Son Of A Bitch
- Norman Rockwell/The Jazz Scene
- The Word Or The Act/We Fucked Their Mothers For Chocolate Bars
- Jimmy Hoffa/Castro & Cuba
- Thank You Mask Man
- Dangerous Drugs/Marijuana
- Jews Killed Christ
- Marilyn Monroe/Narcotics Vs. Juice
- You Don’t Remember Me, Do You?/You’re So Classic… Smoking A Cigar
- Kennedys/Jonathan Winters
- W.C. Fields The Anti-Semite/Hookers On Record
- The Meaning Of Obscenity Pt. 2
- San Francisco Bust/Judge Entrapment
- The Act Is Kissin’ & Huggin’
- Las Vegas Pt. 1/Johnny Mathis
- I’ll Show You How Prejudiced You Are
- Corrupt Cities/Chicago Schtarkers/Shelley Berman
- Audience Banter/Why Doesn’t He Do The Bits On The Records?
- Lenny On Comedy Pt. 2
- Snot
- The Nerve Of Faggots
- Hooker That Balled The President
- Divorce/Get Even/Stag Movies Vs. King Of Kings
- Norman Thomas/Filipinos/Midgets
- Las Vegas Pt. 2/Pearl Bailey
- Australia
- Bela Lugosi & Wallace Beery/Entrancing Transylvania/Herb Caen
- The Warning (With Long Island Police Officer)
Disc 5:- The Best Man In The Tribe
- The Tribunal
- Schmuck
- Reading The Court Transcript
- Pissing In The Sink
- Jewish & Goyish
- Philly Bust/Judge Axelrod
- Tits And Ass
- Never Cop Out
- Jackie Kennedy Hauls Ass/Selling Out Your Country (A.K.A. Hot Lead Enema)
- Dick Gregory
- Census Takers
- Barry Goldwater/The Truth About Men/Doing It To A Chicken
- LBJ
- Toilets/Flashers/Mark Eden Bust Developer
- How The Law Got Started (Eat, Sleep & Crap)
- Playing Milwaukee
- Marijuana/Flashers/Confusion/Bust In The Audience
- Lenny Gets Busted Onstage & Audience Gets ID’d
Disc 6:- All Alone
- The Heroin Bust
- Juror Phone Calls Re: The Heroin Bust
- Zeidler & Zeidler Commercials (with Honey & Kitty)
- Eleanor Roosevelt Had Nice Tits
- Religions, Inc.
- Phone Call Reading A Letter
- Christ & Moses
- Phone Call To Harry Kalvin
- Describing The Fillmore West/Yorty & L.A.
- Southern Accents
- Art And A Big Piece Of Shit (With Anonymous Friend)
- I Picked On The Wrong God
- My Name Is Adolf Eichmann
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Album Description:
UNEDITED, UNCENSORED, UNAPOLOGETIC...The ultimate Lenny Bruce box set 10 years in the making!
Let The Buyer Beware is an unprecedented 6-CD boxed collection of Lenny Bruce’s popular recorded performances, never-before-released performances, and various private recordings that tell the powerful, funny, and ultimately tragic story of the man whose brilliance and convictions turned stand-up comedy on its head. Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) was a brilliant, outspoken satirist unafraid to speak about such then-taboo topics as sex, race, religion and politics. According to critic Nat Hentoff, 'Lenny delighted in exploring why certain words were forbidden—and then demystifying them.' Bruce eventually became a victim of his own talent; he was blacklisted by the establishment, but fought the laws of censorship until it eventually killed him.
Much of the public remains unaware of the wealth of personal recordings Bruce made over the years; he recorded everything from private rehearsals of new bits, to phone conversations and paranoid tirades. This collection is the first to tell the definitive Lenny Bruce story.
*This long-awaited box set is the ultimate tribute to a man that Comedy Central calls the #3 comedian of all time.
*Over 7 1/2 hours of performances, interviews, and wire taps, including: 69 previously unreleased recordings, 10 previously unreleased selections from Lenny’s personal tapes, and 4 previously unreleased radio interviews.
*Contains classic recordings of 'Religions, Inc,' 'How To Relax Your Colored Friends At Parties,' 'Airplane Glue,' 'Jewish & Goyish,' 'Tits And Ass' and more.
*Also contains such unreleased material as Bruce’s WFMT Chicago radio interview with Studs Terkel, many bits from performances at the Jazz Workshop and Off Broadway in San Francisco, The Gate of Horn in Chicago, and The Den in New York and an unused radio ad for Zeidler & Zeidler clothiers.
*Luxuriously packaged in a unique 80-page hardbound book, containing unpublished photos and memorabilia, as well as essays by Lenny Bruce’s daughter, Kitty; Bruce expert Marvin Worth; set producer Hal Willner; and writer Paul Krassner; plus tributes, a chronology, a glossary, and much, much more.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Legendary collection
Hands down one of the best we'll ever see. When Dick Gregory puts you in a class with Mark Twain and Richard Pryor in terms of funniest ever, that says something. I found a copy used at a Newbury Comics, and for half off, and after listening, I would easily pay the 70$ for this collection.
Rating: - Essential material for any red-blooded patriotic citizen
Highly recommended listening for any red-blooded patriotic citizen and all compassionate members [or aspirants] of the human family.
And for all crewmembers of spaceship earth [Bucky Fuller]
Rating:  - Phenomenal audio-biography of Lenny's life, view, and humor
This is a well put together package. I definitely don't recommend downloading this as it comes with an awesome oversized book containing photos of personal clippings, letters, and more information about Lenny Bruce. This is the most Lenny I've listened to at one time, and after listening to this and reading the book, I feel much more respect for Lenny and love him. There is some great comedy on here, but some of the selections were boring and had poor sound quality. I'd rather look into his live ... Read More
Rating:  - A Treasure Trove, but Not for Newcomers
This is a great collection of some classic Bruce bits and a lot of lesser known and obscure recordings. If you're a Bruce fan and know his schtick--and you're fairly well-versed in Yiddish--pick up this set. If you're new to Bruce, don't start here. The sound quality varies wildly, Bruce's references are even more arcane than usual--well, this is for aficionados. Newcomers should pick up Bruce's classic (and cleanly produced) Fantasy albums, notably: The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce, Togetherness, and ... Read More
Rating: - LENNY LIVES UP TO HIS LEGACY
Remember the old story about the old actor famous for his death scenes?
"Dying," he explained to a younger acolyte, "is easy. It's comedy that's hard."
Comedy may be hard, but anyone can do it. But none ever did it as well as Lenny Bruce.
The funny man died of an overdose, at age 41, nearly 39 years go, but his legacy lives on. It's a life and legacy of laughter, and it's ripe for rediscovery.
Now, a generation who never have heard of Bruce, for those who only know him from ... Read More
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