Track Listing
DISC 1: VOLUME 1 (THE EARLY YEARS):
1. Overture
2. Columbus Discovers America: "It's a Round Round World"
3. Pilgrim's Progress : "Take an Indian to Lunch"
4. Thanksgiving Story, The (Under the Double Turkey)
5. Sale of Manhattan, The: "Top Hat, White Feather, And Tails"
6. Boston Tea Party, The
7. Declaration of Independence: "A Man Can't Be Too Careful What He Signs These Days, A"
8. Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, The
9. Betsy Ross and the Flag: "Everybody Wants to Be an Art Director"
10. Discovery of Electricity, The
11. Washington Crosses the Delaware (Command Decision)
12. Yankee Doodle Go Home (Spirit of '76)
13. Battle of Yorktown, The
14. Finale: "So Long, Friend..."
DISC 2: VOLUME 2 (THE MIDDLE YEARS):
1. Intro & Overture
2. Madison, Jefferson, Franklin & Osbourne: The First Advertising Agency (Part 1)
3. Madison, Jefferson, Franklin & Osbourne
4. Madison, Jefferson, Franklin & Osbourne (Part 2)
5. America! America!
6. Madison, Jefferson, Franklin & Osbourne (Part 3)
7. Rumplemeyer's Horseshoes: The Francis Scott Key Story
8. "Rumplemeyer's Horseshoes"
9. Stephen Foster, Beloved Songwriter
10. Samuel F.B. Morse Sends the First Telegram
11. Abe Lincoln in Analysis
12. "Show Folk"
13. Abe Lincoln at Home in the White House
14. Barbara Frietchie, Martyr of the Year
15. Shoot If You Must
16. Lincoln at Shiloh, With General Grant
17. As Long As You're Up / A Sober Life's A Hard Life / The Appomattox Courthouse Bar & Grill
18. There'll Never Be Another War
19. Custer's Last Stand
20. Alexander Graham Bell and the First Phone Call
21. Thomas Edison Invents the Lightbulb! The Phonograph! (Part 1)
22. Perseverance
23. Thomas Edison Invents the Lightbulb! The Phonograph! (Part 2)
24. Planned Obsolescence
25. Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, The
26. Henry Ford Invents Detroit
27. Perseverance (Reprise)
28. Sinking of the Lusitania, The
29. Two Tin Pan Alley Songwriters
30. U-Boat / The Guns Of August
31. Hello, Peace, Hello
32. There'll Never Be Another War (Reprise)
33. America! America! (Reprise)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Billy May, David Ogden Stiers, Harry Shearer, John Goodman, Lorenzo Music, Sherman Hemsley, Tyne Daly | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Stan Freberg (vocals, sound effects); Paul Frees (vocals, spoken vocals); Colleen Collins, Jesse White, Marvin Miller, Peter Leeds, June Foray, Byron Kane, Helen Kleeb, Ken Sullet, Walter Tetley, Barney Phillips, Shep Menken, John Frank, Peter Forster, Maurice Dallimore, David Ogden Stiers, Lorenzo Music, Donavan Freberg, Donna Ebsen, Naomi Lewis, Donna Crean, John Crean, Harry Shearer, Tyne Daly, Sherman Hemsley, William Woodson, John Goodman, The Jimmy Bryant Singers, The Jud Conlon Singers (vocals); Corey Burton (spoken vocals); Billy May (arranger, conductor); Willie Schwartz (saxophone); Uan Racey (trumpet); Irv Cottler (drums); Jerry Williams (percussion); Maurice Kelly, Fayard Nicholas (tap dancing); Jimmy MacDonald, Ray Erlenborn (sound effects); Bandit.
Producers: Ken Nelson, Stan Freberg.
Engineers include: John Kraus, Terry Jennings, Paul Mitchell.
Disc 1 orginally released on Capitol (SM-1573) in 1961. Disc 2 recorded at Wilder Bros. Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California between December 1995 and March 1996. Includes liner notes by Stan Freberg, Dr. Demento and Ray Bradbury.
Editorial Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ...Volume 1...became the Monty Python cult of its day....the put-down of politicians' cynical election tactics in `Take An Indian To Lunch' is still relevant....The newly recorded Volume 2...uses...the same style and...running jokes to take the story up to World War One...
Q (10/01/1996)
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