Lawyer's Hospital
1982 compilation album by The Firesign Theatre
Lawyer's Hospital | ||||
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Cover art by William Stout | ||||
Compilation album by The Firesign Theatre | ||||
Released | 1982 | |||
Genre | Comedy | |||
Length | 37:28 | |||
Label | Rhino Records | |||
Producer | The Firesign Theatre | |||
The Firesign Theatre chronology | ||||
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Lawyer's Hospital is the fourteenth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre. Released in 1982 on Rhino Records, it is a compilation of live performances (some dating from as far back as 1969), augmented by radio segments recorded for NPR and additional material from various sources.
Synopsis
Side 1 Lawyer's Hospital (18:28)
This contains two performances from the Firesigns' National Tour of 1981.[1]
Side 2 Politics As Usual (19:00)
The first three skits were originally recorded as part of "The Campaign Chronicles," the Firesign Theatre's coverage of the 1980 presidential election on National Public Radio's news program Morning Edition.[1]
- "Profiles in Butter"
- "Jimmy Clicker"
- The Golf Rat Shoot"
- "Thank You, Mr. President" — Writing for this started in 1979, when the group reunited after a sabbatical.
- "The Jack Poet Commercials" — These were advertisement spots for a Highland Park, California Volkswagen dealership, which aired starting in 1969 on the Firesigns' KPFK FM Los Angeles radio program, Radio Free Oz.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Lawyer's Hospital (Liner notes). The Firesign Theatre. Rhino Records. 1982. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
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- v
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- Phil Austin
- Peter Bergman
- David Ossman
- Philip Proctor
- Dear Friends
- A Firesign Chat with Papoon
- Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe
- Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
- How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
- Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
- I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
- TV or Not TV
- How Time Flys
- Roller Maidens from Outer Space
- The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
- Everything You Know Is Wrong
- In the Next World, You're on Your Own
- Just Folks... A Firesign Chat
- Give Us a Break
- The Three Faces of Al
- Eat or Be Eaten
- Anythynge You Want To (Shakespeare's Lost Comedie)
- Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death
- Boom Dot Bust
- Bride of Firesign
- Dear Friends
- Forward Into the Past
- Lawyer's Hospital
- Box of Danger
- Shoes For Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre
- Papoon for President
- Duke of Madness Motors: The Complete "Dear Friends" Radio Era
- Dope Humor of the Seventies
- Not Insane or Anything You Want To
- What This Country Needs
- Fighting Clowns
- Back From the Shadows: The Firesign Theatre's 25th Anniversary Reunion Tour
- Radio Now Live
- B-17 Bomber (voiced by Proctor and Bergman)
- Pyst