Tip Of The Freberg (Includes Video)

Tip Of The Freberg (Includes Video) Artist: Stan Freberg
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4


UPC: 081227564520
EAN: 0081227564520
ASIN: B00000JNIO


Release Date: 1999-08-17

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Tracks:

  1. John & Marsha
  2. I've Got You Under My Skin
  3. That's My Boy
  4. Try
  5. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
  6. C'est Si Bon (It's So Good)
  7. A Dear John & Marsha Letter
  8. Sh-Boom
  9. The Yellow Rose Of Texas
  10. The Great Pretender
  11. Heartbreak Hotel
  12. Rock Island Line
  13. Banana Boat (Day-O)
  14. Tele-Vee-Shun
  15. Wun'erful, Wun'erful! (Side Uh-One & Side Uh-Two)
  16. Ya Got Trouble
  17. The Old Payola Roll Blues (Parts 1 & 2)
  18. The Worst Of The Town (The Most Of The Town)
  19. That's Right, Arthur

Tracks:

  1. St. George And The Dragonet
  2. Little Blue Riding Hood
  3. Christmas Dragnet (Yulenet) (Parts 1 & 2)
  4. Point Of Order
  5. Person To Pearson
  6. The Honey-Earthers
  7. The Lone Psychiatrist
  8. Elderly Man River
  9. Freberg In Advertisingland
  10. Ban Gunleigh, U.S. Marshall Field
  11. Incident At Los Voraces

Tracks:

  1. Green Christmas
  2. Overture
  3. Columbus Discovers America: It's A Round, Round World
  4. Pilgrim's Progress: Take An Indian To Lunch
  5. The Thanksgiving Story (Under The Double Turkey)
  6. Declaration Of Independence: A Man Can't Be Too Careful What He Signs These Days
  7. Betsy Ross And The Flag: Everybody Wants To Be An Art Director
  8. Stephen Foster, Beloved Songwritier
  9. Barbara Frietchie, Martyr Of The Year
  10. Shoot If You Must
  11. Alexander Graham Bell And The First Phone Call
  12. Thomas Edision Invents The Light Bulb! The Phonograph (Part 1)
  13. Perserverance
  14. Thomas Edision Invents The Light Bulb! The Phonograph (Part 2)
  15. Planned Obsolescence
  16. Henry Ford Invents Detroit
  17. Perserverance (Reprise)
  18. Omaha! (Parts 1 & 2): Overture/Whatta They Got In Omaha/Ohmaha Moon/Omaha/I Look In Your Face And...
  19. Folk Songs For Our Time: Oh Dat Freeway System
  20. Folk Songs For Our Time: Which Is The Girl: Which Is The Boy?
  21. Anybody Here Remember Radio?

Tracks:

  1. Puffed Grass From 'Ban Gunleigh, U.S. Marshall Field'
  2. Who Listens To Radio?
  3. Empire State Building/Who Puts Eight Great Tomatoes In That Little Bitty Can?
  4. Truth In Advertising
  5. Hot Dog Hot Dog Hot Dog!
  6. Stretching The Imagination
  7. The Milk And I
  8. Gilbert & Sullivan Spoof
  9. Beat Poet
  10. James Bond Spoof
  11. Goldnoodle
  12. Can I Have A Bite Of Your Pencil?
  13. Floor Show Now Going On
  14. Who Put The Handles On The Can?
  15. The 1966 Chun King
  16. Winding The War Down-McGovern-Hatfield Amendment To End The War
  17. Vietnamatic 3-McGovern-Hatfield Amendment To End The War
  18. Moby Dick
  19. Painting On Radio
  20. Today The Pits, Tomorrow The Wrinkles! (Bed Time Story)
  21. Funnier Than Cleopatra/It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
  22. Drink Big (Freedle Family Singers)
  23. Supercharger
  24. What's That Bottled Revelation?
  25. Clark Smathers Faces Life
  26. Sunburn Remedy?
  27. The Ineffectual Drumroll
  28. A Star Is Born
  29. Shluderberg & Kurdle: Song & Dance Men!
  30. Toastal Engineering
  31. Dr. Zhivago
  32. The Irving Bell Story
  33. Fantastic Sound System
  34. Tom Sweet And His Electric Milky Way Machine
  35. The Modern Army Song
  36. Jazz On Rubberbands
  37. Bad Hair Day
  38. Talk Radio
  39. North By Northgate
  40. Scared Witless
  41. The Golf Date
  42. Do People Really Listen To Radio Commercials?
  43. Omaha!
  44. A Dinner For The Common Cold?
  45. Taco Bell In China?
  46. Name Confusion: Mia? Tia? Lisa?
  47. Elton John Could Write A Song For You!
  48. A 'Smart' Toilet Seat?
  49. A Territory's Great But You Gotta Have A State
  50. Oregon, Oregon
  51. Show Opening: 'The New Stan Freberg Show'
  52. Pop Faithcorn: Trend Predictor
  53. Theater Of The Mind
  54. The Freberg Zone
  55. Father Of The Year
  56. Spy Interview
  57. The Conspiraski Theory

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Great American Satirist.......2007-03-28

As a child, I heard "Green Chri$tma$" on the radio and laughed myself silly, delighted that someone had the guts to take on the commercialization of the holidays. When I learned it was a man named Stan Freberg and he had recorded it many years earlier, I determined to learn more about this wonderfully funny man. In the generation to come, I read, listened to, and enjoyed as much Freberg as I could get my hands on. Then came this incredible box set, the ultimate anthology of Stan's amazing career. With the sole exception of cartoon and puppet voices, virtually every aspect of his life in show business and advertising is represented in loving detail. It is the career tribute Stan so richly deserves, and displays the stunning range and versatility of his genius. Be prepared for hours of laughter from one of America's most original minds.

5 out of 5 stars This is indeed only the tip.......2006-07-19

The title says it all. Stan Freeberg's contributions to the world of musical comedy spans five decades, so it would be ridiculous to make the assumption that everything could be contained in this mere 4-CD collection.

While this will most certainly be a hit with die-hard fans, newcomers will find that this collection serves as the perfect introduction to the world of Freeberg by highlighting some of his best work. This is an essential in any CD library.

5 out of 5 stars Stan the Man! A Wonderful Trip Down Memory Lane!.......2006-03-04

My dad used to listen to Freberg Lp's and I never heard him laugh so loud! Now it's my turn!

5 out of 5 stars Classic Song Parodies Just Tip of Classic Freberg.......2004-01-09

Twice during this exceptional, deacdes-spanning box set, Stan Freberg asks you to imagine Lake Michigan filled with hot chocolate, topped with whipped cream from dump trucks, and topped with a cherry flown by a Royal Canadian Air Force plane to cheers of 25,000 extras. He first does it trying to sell radio as an advertising medium ("Doesn't TV stretch the imagination?" "Up to 27 inches.") , one among hundreds of influential, Clio-winning campaigns. The second time, joined by his daughter and legendary voice actress June Foray, he simply asks, "Does Anyone Remember Radio?" Stan Freberg, heard and seen here with a career spanning 4CD box set and accompanying video, is our last link to that legendary theater of the mind.

Joined by a troupe of actors including voice-over giants June Foray, Paul Frees, and Daws Butler, and helped by Broadway-brassy Billy May arrangements, Freberg recorded sonically accurate but hilarious pop song parodies. An overechoed "Heartbreak Hotel" features Freberg's ersatz Elvis tearing three pairs of pants and a piano solo "close enough for jazz." "Sh-Boom" features inarticulate doo-woppers coached by a Stanley Kowalksi impersonator. (In his exhaustive liner notes, written with movelty music curator Barrett "Dr. Demento" Hansen, Freberg denies racism motivated his stinging attacks on the then-new music. He said he just liked jazz and wanted to understand the lyrics, which hardly explains his collaboration with Jesse White on hilarious if mean-spirited "The Old Payola Roll Blues".)

A "Yellow Rose of Texas" features an overactive snare drum which became a Freberg in-joke on subsequent hit records. Freberg also bit the TV hand which later fed him, parodying Lawrence Welk, Ed Sullivan and, in "Tele-Vee-Shun" practically putting Newton Minnow's "vast wasteland" speech to music. (But the version included here omits Freberg's closing shot, "But is it art?/Don't make me laugh." )

"Green Christmas," a huge, controversial 1958 hit, is arguably Freberg's finest moment. Transposing Dickens' "Christmas Carol" to Madison Avenue he successfully combines satire, (hear what happens to Tiny Tim) clever songs and genuine righteous anger to show ad agency Scrooges (who Freberg later served in his own fashion) "who's birthday we're celebrating." Coming when it did at a season in an era dominated by advertising, it's as clever and reverent to the true meaning of Christmas as any traditional holiday song, not to mention twice as funny.

"Tip of the Freberg" also includes portions of his two remarkable "Presents the United States of America" CDs, recorded nearly 40 years apart. But the last two discs lose some momentum. Apart from a haunting, darkly humored ad aimed at cutting off Vietnam war funding, you hope the milk and chow mein products Freberg wrote for had less filler than their ad upon ad repetition does on Disc 4. (Rhino, whose gathered some remarkable box sets, could cleverly have interspersed Freberg's commercials throughout the set for a more evenly funny listen.)

"The Conspiraski Theory" puts three of 1998's infamous news personalities into a smile-inducing but slight ditty, where prime Freberg could have turned it into a grand slam sketch. (That, plus his NPR "Stan Freberg Here" commentaries link him more closely to Fred Allen than Andy Rooney.) Even so, anyone wanting to understand the satirical, pun-filled, even seething 1950s humor - which inspired "Bullwinkle," the Firesign Theater, National Lampoon, David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld and every single commercial you've ever laughed at, should hear Freberg's work. Highly recommended, but if budget prohibits choose any of Freberg's one-disc Capitol collections or multi-disc sets from his radio show.

5 out of 5 stars WARNING: Satire is all in fun, no offense meant..........2003-01-18

this box set is wun'erful, wun'erful! i just had to say that, forgive me!! anyway, i love this box set and the video of his TV commercials are hilarious. i love the one about the Turkey and Giblets with James Mason and this southern talking woman! i also laugh at the Gene Rayburn lookalike on the frozen pizza commercial where he slaps this woman with the pizza box. the hilarity comes from the guy's deadpan delivery. the video also includes two commercials with his son, Donavan "Encyclopedia Brittanica" Freberg. the music/comedy skits are also hilarious but on the Volume 3 CD containing a majority of his "Presents the United States of America" routines, from 1961 and from the sequel in 1996, Stan's voice comes in crystal clear but his co-stars voices sound miles away. i don't know if it was intentionally recorded that way or not...but that's the way the routines sound on the Volume Three CD. the producer or engineer might've forgot to turn on his co-star's mikes? don't let that distract you from getting this career spanning box set, though. well, i played volume three on my brother's CD player and it sounded terrific and so i realized that my speaker had a short in it and i went out and bought me a new CD player and Volume Three is alright! the booklet is fabulous and every aspect of Stan's career is showcased except his cartoon work for Warner Brothers...one thinks Rhino should've added an audio version of a classic cartoon that Stan and Mel Blanc voiced? maybe someone else will examine Stan's cartoon work? Tip of the Freberg is stunning and mind blowing with all the facts and trivia. on the video, Stan performs "The Conspirasky Theory", and it's delightful to see/hear Stan continue to satirize politics.

Music CD:

  1. Duke of Dirt ~ Jay Hickman
  2. Live at Dollywood ~ Jerry Clower
  3. Gratuitously ~ Groucho Marx
  4. Prophecies ~ Dik Darnell & Steve Halpern
  5. Sing Along with Drac ~ Sheldon Allman
  6. Sir Henry At Rawlinson End ~ Viv Stanshall
  7. The Best Of William Burroughs: From Giorno Poetry Systems ~ William Burroughs
  8. Become the Media ~ Jello Biafra
  9. Pull My Finger: The Fart CD ~ Various Artists
  10. Dr. Demento Gooses Mother! ~ Dr. Demento

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Con Acompanamiento de Mariachi ~ Javier Solis

15 Valsas de Exito Mariachi ~ Various Artists

Tip Of The Freberg (Includes Video) ~ Stan Freberg

Silk Road Suite ~ Kitaro

Verdi: Don Carlos

Just For You ~ Lionel Richie

Salsa Caliente de Nu York! ~ Cheo Feliciano

10 de Coleccion ~ Los Huracanes del Norte

La Musica del Canon de Pachelbel Al Borde del Mar

Soy Virgencita ~ Comando Norteno