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 | Title : His Royal Hipness
Author : Lord Buckley
Release Date : 19930928
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $11.98
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Editorial Reviews :
His Royal Hipness was as unique as they come, an eccentric white cat who made his mark by recasting familiar tales--from Shakespeare, the Bible, and beyond--in a frantic spray of black street lingo, jazz-speak, and hipster jive. In Buckley's mind, Jesus became 'The Nazz,' Gandhi 'The Hip Gan,' and explorer Vasco da Gama 'Cabeza de Gasca.' That would be adventurous now. It was simply unheard of in the 1940s and 1950s when Buckley was plying his trade, entertaining audiences he called his Royal Court. He was too weird to be more than a cult figure, but his defiant persona, deep individualism, and comic sense of cool certainly influenced the likes of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, and even Bob Dylan. Gone, wailin' stuff.
Buyer Reviews :
I'm reviewing this item now because Oliver Trager's _Dig Infinity_ has just been published. I highly recommed Trager's biography, but if you want to meet His Lordship you'll have to listen to him. Trager's book includes a CD, and readers will want to know that there isn't much overlap between that one and this one.
'This one' is a re-release of _The Best of Lord Buckley_ and it includes some of his greatest raps (notably, of course, 'The Nazz,' deservedly his most famous). A different recording of 'The Nazz' is also included on the Trager CD, and so is a different recording of 'People.' But that's as far as the overlap extends.
If you haven't heard Lord Richard Buckley before, I don't really know how to explain to you who and what he was. Was he an entertainer? A saint? A scoundrel? A bodhisattva? A con man? A raconteur? A shaman? A swindler? An evangelist? A shameless moocher? An artist? An agent of God? A prankster? A drunk?
Well, yeah.
Above all, His Lordship was a sweet cat who blew a solid ace lick, one of the gonest, wailin'est cats who ever stomped this sweet swingin' sphere. This CD -- so far as I know the only Buckley CD currently available -- includes the best of his best, though of course there's a lot of fine material that just isn't here. If you haven't met the Hip Messiah yet, do yourself a favor and give this a listen. And have a look at Trager's biography too.
(by Scott Ryan)
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