Lord Buckley Hip Jazz Poet and Story Teller : A Discography


Lord Buckley Hip Jazz Poet and Story Teller :
A Discography

“Lord Buckley is a secret thing that people pass under the table,” novelist Ken Kesey said.

The Best of Lord Buckley, I BOUGHT THIS ALBUM IN 1970 !!!
The Best of Lord Buckley, Crestview Records, re-released on Elektra

Records under the same title, (out of print), Recordings from 1951, some originally released by Vaya Records. The Nazz, Gettysburg Address, The Hip Gahn, Jonah and the Whale, Marc Antony’s Funeral Oration, and Nero.
(The Crestview Records edition of this album can be spotted sitting on the mantle in the photograph on the cover of Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home.)

 

THE NAZZ

JONAH AND THE WHALE

Sly Stone “Mr. Froehlich” (In the style of Lord Buckley’s “The Nazz”) on the Dick Cavett Show.
A highly enhanced Sly Stone performs an impromptu Lord Buckley imitation in tribute to his music teacher David Froehlich for his bewildered host. From ‘The Dick Cavett Show’ broadcast June 8, 1971 on ABC Television in the USA. “LOOK at all you cats and you kitties out there whoopin’ and wailin’ and jumpin’ up and down’ and… And suckin’ up all that juice. And pattin’ each other on the back. And hipping each other WHO the greatest cat in the world is. But I’m gonna put a cat on YOU was the coolest’, the strongest, the sweetest cat that ever stomped this sweet, swingin’ sphere. They call this here cat Mr. Froehlich!”

Richard Myrle Buckley aka LORD BUCKLEY made the scene April 5, 1906. He cut out on November 12, 1960. Rest easy, baby. We’ve got you covered.