Lord Buckley Hipsters Flipsters and Finger Poppin' Daddies 10" vinyl 1955 VG

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Lord Buckley

Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin' Daddies
Knock Me Your Lobes 

RCA Victor LPM-3246  LP 33RPM 10" 1955 (USA)

itunes:  "A most immaculately hip aristocrat," Lord Buckley was the epitome of comedy cool; a onetime vaudeville performer and a hulking ex-lumberjack, he was a comic philosopher, a bop monologuist whose vocalese fused the rhythms and patois of the street with the arch sophistication of the British upper crust to create verbal symphonies unparalleled in their intricacy and dexterity. A comedian who didn't tell jokes and a word-jazz virtuoso riffing madly on the English language, Buckley combined the frenetic intensity of Beat poetry with the lessons and moral heft of Biblical tales and historical discourse; holding court over the "hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin' daddies" of the postwar era, he was a true visionary, the original rapper.

After touring with the U.S.O. during World War II, Buckley relocated to New York City, where he acted in a Broadway production titled The Passing Show. After he married Elizabeth Hanson, one of the show's dancers, the couple and their children moved to Los Angeles at the dawn of the 1950s; after attempts to break into films proved largely unsuccessful, Buckley began taking on the persona of "His Lordship," an aristocratic hipster madman clad in tuxedo, pith helmet, and Salvador Dali-esque waxed mustache. He quickly emerged as an underground legend, participating in LSD experiments while throwing wild parties at his rented Hollywood Hills mansion (dubbed the Castle) where the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tony Curtis mingled with jazz musicians, junkies, and poets. At a Topanga Canyon art gallery owned by his friend Bob DeWitt, he also founded the first jazz religion, "the Church of the Living Swing."

In 1951 Buckley made his first recordings for the Vaya label, Euphoria and Euphoria, Vol. 2. The first album contained his most legendary routine, "The Nazz," a "hipsemantic" retelling of the life of Christ ("the sweetest, gonest, wailinest cat that ever stomped on this sweet, swingin' sphere"); the latter featured a number of riffs on Aesop's Fables as well as "Jonah and the Whale," complete with a pothead Jonah. Despite a series of well-received appearances on The Tonight Show, The Milton Berle Show, and You Bet Your Life, Buckley did not reenter the studio until 1955, when he cut Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger-Poppin' Daddies, Knock Me Your Lobes, which spotlighted his adaptations of scenes from the Shakespearean dramas Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth.

While Buckley was never a mainstream figure, his stature grew to mythic proportions in the months and years following his death. Lenny Bruce was an avowed fan, borrowing much of his attitude and rhythms from Buckley's lead, and everyone from Jonathan Winters to Robin Williams acknowledged His Lordship's influence. Bob Dylan was also enamored of his work, and at the outset of his career frequently covered Buckley's rendition of the poet Joseph Newman's "Black Cross." Jimmy Buffett performed the Buckley original "God's Own Drunk," and George Harrison's hit "Crackerbox Palace" drew inspiration from the comedian's life and its title from the name given his tiny Hollywood home. Still the subject of a fanatical cult following and a true underground hero, even decades after exiting "this sweet, swingin' sphere," the self-styled Messiah of Hip lives on. ~ Jason Ankeny

Tracklist
A1 Friends, Romans, Countrymen 
A2 Hiawatha 
A3 To Swing Or Not To Swing 
B1 Boston Tea Party 
B2 Is This The Sticker 

Conductor – His Grace Sir Harry, M. G.
Cover – Jim Flora
Liner Notes – Lord Buckley
Orchestra – Royal Court Orchestra

Black label with silver print, white dog logo at top, and "Long Play" at bottom.

Very Good Vinyl (a couple of visible marks with negligible effect on play, many spindle marks)  in a picture sleeve in FAIR condition (tape-repaired spine, pen marks) in  a plastic protector sleeve