We Love the 70s

"The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress" - Flip Wilson

Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

1971

Track listing[edit]

Side one[edit]

1. Great Quotations – 2:15^[12]
2. The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress – 4:00
3. Miss Johnson – 2:55
4. The Great Motor Bike and Tennis Shoe Race, Honey – 3:10
5. The Go-Rilla – 7:00

Side two[edit]

1. Monologue Number One (Wardrobe Lady, Pt. I – Drive-In Movie – Lemonade Stand – Golf Story) – 6:00^[12]
2. Monologue Number Two (Wardrobe Lady, Pt. II – Doctors Have More Fun) – 3:40
3. Ice – 2:58
4. Ruby Begonia – 2:00
5. Monologue Number Three (Seeing Ed Eat A Chittlin' On Network Television – The Pet Shop) – 2:45

Album of the Year Grammy Award for 1960

Winner of the Album of the Year Grammy award for 1960

 14 non consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard album chart

Track listing

1. "Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue"– 7:31
2. "The Cruise of the U.S.S. Codfish"– 5:01
3. "Merchandising the Wright Brothers"– 3:12
4. "The Krushchev Landing Rehearsal"– 4:47
5. "Driving Instructor"– 8:03
6. "Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball" – 3:21

Billboard Top Ten Comedy Albums

Here are the Top 10  Comedy Albums for the week ending July 2nd 2011

10 - Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening - Aziz Ansari
9  -  I Did My Best (Greatest Hits) - Dane Cook
8  -  Sleepwalk With Me : Live - Mike Birbiglia
7  -  Me Doing Standup - Norm MacDonald
6  -  Hilarious - Louis C.K.
5  -  10 Great Skits - Roy D Mercer
4  -  Words Words Words - Bo Burnham
3  -  Get Him To The Greek - Soundtrack
2  -  Happy Thoughts - Daniel Tosh
1  -  Turtleneck and  Chain - The Lonely Island
(6 consecutive week at #1)

Album Spotlight

This spotlight falls on the winner of the Grammy for Album of the Year for 1960 and the Grammy award for best New Artist of the Year.

The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart

(the most celebrated comedian since Attila the Hun)

Bob Newhart would be the only comedian to with the Grammy for Best New Artist and this was the first comedy LP to win album of the year.

The album would spend 14 non consecutive weeks in the #1 spot on the Billboard chart, trading the spot with Kingston Trio, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.