Woody Allen (album)

Woody Allen is a live 1964 comedy album by the American comedian and later notable film director Woody Allen. This was Allen's debut recording, and was recorded at Mister Kelly's nightclub in Chicago. It was the first of three comedy albums released by Allen.

It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance at the 7th Annual Grammy Awards in 1965; it lost to Bill Cosby's album I Started Out as a Child, which coincidentally had also been recorded at Mister Kelly's.

Reception

Billboard magazine highlighted the album as a Comedy Spotlight in their July 25, 1964 issue and wrote that "He is a very funny fellow. The material is uniformly hilarious throughout the album. Of course Allen's delivery is polished to a point whereby he may soon be the nation's No 1. comedian".

Track listing

1. "Private Life"
2. "Brooklyn (incl. Floyd)"
3. "The Army"
4. "Pets (incl. Spot)"
5. "My Grandfather"
6. "My Marriage"
7. "The Bullet"
8. "N.Y.U."
9. "A Love Story"
10. "The Police (incl. Library Book, Neanderthal)"
11. "Summing Up"

Personnel

• Scotty Schacter, Jerry De Clercq – engineer
• Don Bronstein – photography
• Jack Lewis – producer

Influence

Many comedians have cited Allen's influence on them and their work. In an interview John Mulaney specified that he had listened to Allen's 1965 album.

Awards

1964–1968

Three albums, Woody Allen, recorded at Mr. Kelly’s in Chicago, March 1964 (Colpix release #515); Woody Allen Volume 2, recorded at The Shadows, Washington D.C. (Colpix release #488), April 1965; and The Third Woody Allen Album, recorded at Eugene's ("a cabaret dedicated to raise money to aid Eugene McCarthy"), San Francisco, August 1968 (Capitol #2986); were reissued, in 1972, as a gatefold 2-LP record set, Woody Allen: The Night Club Years 1964-1968, in 1978, as a gatefold 2-LP record set, Woody Allen: Standup Comic, and in 2014, as a CD boxset, Woody Allen: The Stand-Up Years: 1964–1968.

Woody Allen On Comedy

Woody Allen On Comedy was released by Laugh.Com, tracks, of which, are provided to YouTube.

References

1. Woody Allen
2. Allen Woody
3. Soon-Yi Previn
4. List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen
5. Letty Aronson
6. Woody Guthrie
7. What's Up, Tiger Lily?
8. Interiors
9. The Woody Allen Show
10. Louise Lasser
11. Everyone Says I Love You
12. Manhattan (1979 film)
13. Gov't Mule (album)
14. Gov't Mule
15. Ronan Farrow
16. Dru Hill (album)
17. Midnight in Paris
18. Melinda and Melinda
19. An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: First Set
20. Bemsha Swing (album)