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The album features Lou Jacobi, Betty Walker, Jack Gilford, Joe Silver, Jackie Kannon, Bob McFadden, Frank Gallop, and Arlene Golonka, [3] in a variety of roles, mostly Jewish, performing a mixture of jokes and comedy sketches.
- Comedy
Feb 6, 2007 · For "You Don't Have To Be Jewish," Producer Booker, pairing with writer George Foster, assembled a first class ensemble of comedic actors to play the jokes and blackout type sketches on this LP. Lou Jacobi was seen on countless sitcoms as the "Jewish Dad" type, and Valerie Harper, who would later star as "Rhoda" on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show ...
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Dec 7, 2006 · This is REAL Jewish humor --- not the nasty anti-semitic jokes that poke fun at Jews, but the types of in-jokes where we Jews laugh at ourselves and the world around us. The casting is superb, the dialect authentic, and the timing is just right.
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Al Tijuana and his Jewish Brass is a spoof comedy album with Lou Jacobi acting as the title emcee of a band that played popular songs of the day. Dates 1966
"A new comedy album with music, songs, and sketches"--Container. Starring the "You Don't Have To Be Jewish" Players (Frank Gallop, Lou Jacobi and Betty Walker) ; also starring Phil Leeds, Valerie Harper, Anthony Holland and Bob McFadden ; Pat Williams, musical director. Recorded in the Columbia Recording Studios, New York, Jan. 24, 1966.
Feb 8, 2007 · The 1966 KAPP Records comedy album, WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD IS JEWISH (KRL-4506) was created, written and produced by Bob Booker and George Foster. Booker co-produced with Earl Doud THE FIRST FAMILY (1962), the best-selling JFK spoof LP.
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In the early 1960's, American Jews were not as assimilated as we are now. This record satirizes Jewish idiosyncrasies in an amusing way. There is no anti-Semitism here, just humor. The voices of the actors are priceless. Lou Jacobi and Selma Diamond are among the best.
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