HOW TO SPEAK HIP Comedy 12" LP 33rpm + 8 Pg Book by Close/Brent Mercury 1959 EX
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The album is designed as a satire of language-learning records, where the secret language of the '' is treated as a foreign language. Part of the joke, however, is that it actually does a good job of describing the / sub-culture: Basic concepts such as "cool" and "uncool" are taught, as well as vocabulary building ("dig", "dig it", "dig yourself, baby", "dig the chick", "dig the cat", "What a drag!").
Many of the phrases and expressions survived to become elements of the vocabulary.
