Woody Allen (album)

Woody Allen
Live album by Woody Allen
Released July 1964
Recorded March 1964 at Mister Kelly's, Chicago
Genre Comedy
Length c.37 minutes
Label Colpix CP 518[1]
Woody Allen chronology
Woody Allen
(1964)		 Volume Two
(1965)

Woody Allen is a live 1965 comedy album by the American comedian Woody Allen. This was Allen's debut recording, and was recorded at Mister Kelly's nightclub in Chicago.[2] It was the first of three comedy albums released by Allen, the three albums were issued in a 2014 boxset, The Stand-Up Years: 1964–1968.[3]

It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance at the 7th Annual Grammy Awards in 1965; it lost to Bill Cosby's album I Started Out as a Child.[2]

Reception

Billboard magazine highlighted the album as a Comedy Spotlight in their July 25, 1964 issue and wrote that "He is a very funny fellow. The material is uniformly hilarious throughout the album. Of course Allen's delivery is polished to a point whereby the nation's No 1. comedian".[4]

Track listing

  1. "Private Life"
  2. "Brooklyn (incl. Floyd)"
  3. "The Army"
  4. "Pets (incl. Spot)"
  5. "My Grandfather"
  6. "My Marriage"
  7. "The Bullet"
  8. "N.Y.U."
  9. "A Love Story"
  10. "The Police (incl. Library Book, Neanderthal)"
  11. "Summing Up"

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Woody Allen – Woody Allen". discogs.com. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 Marion Meade (2000). The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography. Simon and Schuster. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-684-83374-3.
  3. ↑ "Woody Allen's Sixties Stand-Up Albums Reissued". Rolling Stone magazine. 22 September 1964. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (25 July 1964). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN 0006-2510.
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