tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13393846.post6293655570702706654..comments2024-03-14T18:52:25.341-07:00Comments on Ill Folks: DAVID FRYE - 1934-2011 Nixon's Worst EnemyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13393846.post-84455369854203003242011-01-30T20:24:13.164-08:002011-01-30T20:24:13.164-08:00The Burns and Schreiber album I mentioned earlier ...The Burns and Schreiber album I mentioned earlier is called The Watergate Comedy Hour. I recently picked up another copy of the record. Along with Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber, it features Fannie Flagg (novelist and Match Game regular), Jack Riley (from the Bob Newhart Show) and Frank Welker the great voice actor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13393846.post-11719145293403915342011-01-30T14:21:08.277-08:002011-01-30T14:21:08.277-08:00Watergate really sent a flood of comedy albums ont...Watergate really sent a flood of comedy albums onto the market. <br /><br />It brought back Mort Sahl, who even got off one of the only puns of his career: "Sing a Song of Watergate, Apocryphal of Lie." That was the album title.<br /><br />Some of the weirder items included a single, "Watergrate" from Dickie Goodman, and from across the pond, "He's Innocent of Watergate" by Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. Sapristi!Ill Folkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08208537275049364194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13393846.post-12867108679789490692011-01-30T11:06:51.492-08:002011-01-30T11:06:51.492-08:00Thank you for this! I was in my early teens when R...Thank you for this! I was in my early teens when Richard Nixon: A Fantasy came along and that, combined with a Burns and Schreiber album about Watergate were my main introduction to political satire.<br /><br />I believe I had the Frye album memorized and would quote it often to the dismay of my "normal" 14 year old friends who didn't give a damn about whether the President of the United States was lying to the American people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13393846.post-21392764500874328492011-01-30T09:48:09.112-08:002011-01-30T09:48:09.112-08:00Thanks Tommy, "not real well," indeed. V...Thanks Tommy, "not real well," indeed. Very sad. <br /><br />Especially when most of that YouTube was just audio, which suggests he was selling himself as a voiceover man more than a stand-up act. I don't even think commercials were possible, as he was in his 70's and looked nothing like Ventura or Rodney. The Ventura was very weak, the Cheney and Dubya worse. <br /><br />On the tape Frye did a decent G.H. Bush but Dana Carvey had that covered. Will Jordan made a living for years as Patton, doing appearances at industrials, and for corporations. I guess part of the problem is having good management, constant confidence and perpetual drive...and Frye wasn't that lucky.<br /><br />Gorshin could always do Vegas (and sold a DVD of his show to fans in attendance) and kept his name out there via indie movies, too. He actually made a "comeback" doing a one-man show as George Burns, which even came to Broadway. Frank had never done Burns in his act, but at his age, finally could. Frank was diagnosed with cancer I think before the show reached Broadway, but he had a decent run in NYC and was still touring with that show on the road when he became too ill to perform. He had friends, fans, and a very loving girlfriend. <br /><br />Frye's apparent lonely show-biz limbo over the past decades is pretty depressing.Ill Folkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08208537275049364194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13393846.post-46814997821979892072011-01-29T16:33:00.101-08:002011-01-29T16:33:00.101-08:00Frye did Both Bushes & Cheney & Jesse Vent...Frye did Both Bushes & Cheney & Jesse Ventura!:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/user/davidfryeimpressions#p/a/u/2/ICOXYoAWzgo<br /><br />not real well I'm afraidTommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02238143486209644518noreply@blogger.com