Here’s the brilliant 1959 comedy album “How to Speak Hip” by Del Close and John Brent, converted from vinyl by Skeyelab Music. Like dig it man.
via Ze Frank
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Nutty! I got part of this album yeeears back on the original Napster and have been keeping an eye out for it ever since. Now I can finally understand hipsters.
I found the site where I first heard about it: Catalog of Cool
Fabulous! Thanks for posting this. Del Close is near and dear to my heart because he founded Improv Olympic, the Chicago-based improvisational theater school. On his deathbed, he requested that his skull be given to a local theater to use in “Hamlet”.
Fantastic! I have had pieces of this album for many many years, it’s so great to finally hear the whole thing!
“… in other words I am saying I am ‘hip’.”
“Dig yourself baby, you’ ve got a ways to go.”
That is one of the most brilliant things I have ever heard in my entire life.
“Excuse me, I speak jive” – June Cleaver actress in the movie “Airplane”