Set of Two Lenny Bruce LPs The Best of and Carnegie Hall Feb 4, 1961 (3 LP set)
The Best of Lenny Bruce is just that, a collection of his best recorded humor. Bruce was a very edgy comedian, who was arrested several times for using language you can now hear on television regularly. He was eventually convicted on obscenity charges and sentenced to 4 months incarceration but died before he was jailed. Recorded in the late 1950s-early 1960s, his topics included race, homosexuality, religion, drugs and sexuality in general. As the liner notes by Ralph J. Gleason note, Bruce was a comedian who made his audience think.
Carnegie Hall is a 3 LP set, recorded live in 1962. Parts of it have been previously released under the title of "The Midnight Concert" This reissue was released in 1972. The show did indeed begin at midnight, in a blizzard no less, that had shut down much of the Northeast.
