The Jimmy Heap Show featuring Ken Idaho - Laff Clinic

The Jimmy Heap Show featuring Ken Idaho - Laff Clinic

released on LP (no date given)

Well, here's the last one of the bunch that I found at the recent local library sale. I believe there are a few more Heap/Idaho/Sex to Sexty albums out there. If anyone wants to kindly hook me up with any of those, drop me a note in the comments section.

From the liner notes:

Dear Fans:

Today medical science has come up with a pill for just about everything and they are wonderful. Even the birth control pills are changing a lot of won'ts into will's, and since there are so many Child Brides they even have the "Candy Coated Birth Control Pill." They've got pills to get up by and pills to go to bed by and even a new tranquilizer that doesn't calm you down but makes you enjoy being tense. Even the old people are getting a helping gland with the Monkey Gland and the Goat Gland or you can play it safe and get one of each just in case you are monkeying around and just happen to butt into something. Doctors are even changing men into women and women into men or half-and-half for the do-it-yourselfers, but we are proud to announce that we the first with a "Laff Clinic."

In this album Grandpa Flewhardy pays us another visit and he's still got that gleem in his eyes but he finds out it's just the sun reflecting off his bifocals.

Jukebox in the Bedroom is a story of a man and his "Beef Stew Marriage." His wife Beefs and he's always Stewed. He hires a Topless Waitress and finds out that the best things in life comes in pairs.

Peabody's Pills: They don't contain feathers and X-Lax but they'll still tickle the stuff out of you.

Beat Saint Nick is a routine about Santa's Swinging Helper who thinks a Trip Around the World is a form of making love while on L.S.D.

Percy Fillrod is a mixed up fellow that just "Blew" into town but when they try to take him into the Army they have to separate the men from the boys with a crowbar.

Dr. Seamore Rumps is a story about a friendly neighborhood doctor that dabbles in medicine and any other thing that might be in his office at the time.

We hope that this album will be as much fun as your favorite girlfriend, so lay it down and give it a spin. (Ken Idaho)
Tracklisting:  (link coming back soon)

Side 1

1. Grandpa Flewhardy {5:43}

2. Jukebox in the Bedroom {7:06}

3. Peabody's Pills {8:29}

Side 2

1. Beat St. Nick {8:17}

2. Percy Fillrod {7:01}

3. Dr. Seamore Rumps {6:31}

The Jimmy Heap Show featuring Ken Idaho - Laff-a-Rammer

The Jimmy Heap Show featuring Ken Idaho - Laff-a-Rammer

released on LP (no date given)

From the liner notes:

Dear Fans, Here we go again with our Sex to Sexty album. I've heard it said that the third time is a charm, well there's nothing charming about "Laff-A-Rammer", it's a Riot. (Riot: That's a sex maniac turned loose in a Cat House with a credit card.) So why not invite in your friendly neighborhood sex maniac and put on this album and you're in for a complete evening of "Laff-A-Rammer". If an old prude should drop by, forget it, hide the record. If you can't find a place to hide it then sit on it. This album may not be as good as sex but if you sit on it, it will be the next [best] thing to it. Get the gang together and play it for them, they'll get a bang out of it.

In this album Grandpa Flewhardy celebrates his 50th wedding anniversary. He goes all out but ends up all in. "Just Plain Crazy" is a song and story about a boy who meets a girl who tries to take him for everything. She thinks he's a real bargain because he's 50 per cent off but she ends up in the hole. "Snow White" is a story about an oversexed girl who woke up every morning feeling like a new man and got eight. In "Drunk Again" I portray a man suffering from bottle fatigue and proves that life is full of Urps and Downs. "Almost Persuaded" is a song about a girl who stays that way to keep from getting that way. The Nudist Colony was written in a nudist colony and it took a lot of poise. Poise: A man in a nudist colony that doesn't raise anything but an eyebrow.

This record may get scratchy like the record of life but you can have a lot of fun if you keep your needle in the groove. (Ken Idaho)

Tracklisting:  (link coming back soon)

Side 1

1. Grandpa's Anniversary {8:38}

2. Just Plain Crazy {7:31}

3. Snow White {6:53}

Side 2

1. Drunk Again {9:40}

2. Almost Persuaded {3:18}

3. The Nudist Colony {7:55}

The Jimmy Heap Show featuring Ken Idaho - Laff Fun-tier

The Jimmy Heap Show featuring Ken Idaho - Laff Fun-tier

released on LP (no date given)

This may or may not be the 2nd album put out by Jimmy Heap, Ken Idaho, and Sex to Sexty. More raunchy humor including Idaho's unique versions of the fairy tales, Cinderella and Red Riding Hood.

The liner notes provide some interesting tidbits about Jimmy Heap:

On the road with the Jimmy Heap Show is one big ball with seven of the greatest guys you'll ever meet. But that is to be expected because they work for the greatest boss man in the business, "Jimmy Heap". In all of his twenty years in the music business Jim has never fired anyone. He expects a night's work out of his band members and that's what he gets. [Apparently, Jimmy never had to go Buddy Rich on anyone.] That is why when you see the Jimmy Heap Show there is never a dull moment. A weekly rehearsal of songs and show routines keeps the band up to date on the latest songs in every field of music, with seven vocalists to sing the songs to give you variety in listening and watching pleasure. If you get a chance to see this sow, don't miss it, it's the show that everyone is talking about.

Credits from the back cover:

Jimmy Heap - guitar
Bill Glendening - bass
Butter Ball Harris - steel guitar
Ken Idaho - violin and saxophone
Butch Keith - trumpet
Lee Roy Eichler - drums
Johnny McMurtray - guitar


Tracklisting:  (link coming back soon)

Side 1

1. Grandpa Flewhardy {5:04}

2. Giddy Up A Go Go {6:13}

3. Cinderella {8:48}

Side 2

1. Little Brown Shack {10:50}

2. Little Red Riding Hood {6:47}

The Jimmy Heap Show featuring Ken Idaho - Laugh Potion

The Jimmy Heap Show featuring Ken Idaho - Laugh Potion

released on LP (no date given)

When I was sifting through the boxes of records at the most recent local library sale, I noticed an album cover with illustrations and the words "sex to sexty" on it. Then I saw a few others like it and grabbed those too. I figured they had to be worth checking out and there was something familiar sounding about "sex to sexty", but I couldn't recall what it was. Besides, I already went through a few other boxes and didn't find anything remotely interesting, just the usual boring pop and easy listening records everyone used to own along with Firestone Christmas albums. I finally found some potentially worthwhile stuff with these albums. Overall, it was not a great night at the library sale. I found just a few other good records and checked out.

I listened to most of the stuff on these LPs and I was laughing a lot although this stuff is a bit beneath my sensibilities. I learned that Jimmy Heap was a band leader who wrote and performed country and western music. He seems to be most remembered for writing a hit song called "The Wild Side of Life". Then apparently while out in Las Vegas, Jimmy Heap thought that he needed to add comedy to his act. He found a guy named Ken Idaho who not only could play the violin and saxophone, he was also a comic who specialized in raunchy or bawdy comedy routines. (Ken Idaho's real name is Ken Alderhold.) The comedy act became a hit and Heap and Idaho teamed up with a humor magazine called Sex to Sexty and released several albums on Heap's label Fame Records (which Heap started in the mid 1950s after leaving Capitol Records). Sex to Sexty was vaguely familiar. I think I may have sneaked a peak at an old issue or two at some used merchandise shop when I was a kid. Sex to Sexty often put out issues from 1965 to 1983 and I'm sure you can guess what subject the magazine focused on. (There is even a book released that has all of the covers from the magazine.)

Read more at these sources about Jimmy Heap, Ken Idaho, and Sex to Sexty which most of the info came from and used in the above paragraph:

Vintage Sleaze
Jimmy Heap interview with Ray Campi
Answers.com biography of Jimmy Heap

This particular LP may or may not have been the first one put out by Heap, Idaho, and Sex to Sexty. I am going by the catalog number and it is the lowest one of these albums I have. Three of the tracks are renditions of three popular tunes and the other one is a routine with Heap and Idaho about the game of golf. This one, as is the case with all of these albums I have, is a party album with "adults only" type of humor including double entendres and dick jokes. In other words, it delivers entertainment and we don't have enough of it in our lives, right.

The band members credited on the back cover:

Jimmy Heap - "leader", guitar
Bill Glendening - bass
Butter Ball Harris - steel guitar
Ken Idaho - violin and saxophone
Ken Frazier - guitar
Butch Keith - trumpet
Lee Roy Eichler - drums

Tracklisting:  (link coming back soon)

Side 1

1. Henry the VIII {6:33}

2. Golf Game {7:33}

Side 2

1. See the Big Man Cry {5:02}

2. Love Potion No. 9 {8:44}

Dickie Goodman - Mr. Jaws and Other Fables

Dickie Goodman - Mr. Jaws and Other Fables

Released in 1975

Well here's that LP I promised yesterday. I was able to post it sooner than I expected. All 10 of these cuts are comedy bits or skits that are mostly fake news reports where the responses to interviews are snippets from hit songs back in the day (i.e. during when these bits were recorded). Fortunately, in keeping with the holiday/Christmas season, "Santa and the Satellite" happens to be on this LP.
I think the first sampling of music I've ever heard was in the "Flying Saucer" track played on Dr. Demento. Is this kind of recording as is on this record still being done today? I'm out of the loop on this and it's been about 13 years since I last listened to a Dr. Demento show because my tastes have evolved to the point where I can't listen to hack novelty music and stale comedy routines for more than thirty minutes.

I may not be back with a new post until next year, so merry holidays to all. Also, I like to wish for everyone to increase their wealth, gain exciting love lives, lose weight, be happier, exercise more, read good literature for 20 minutes a day, get whiter teeth, do some networking to make more friends and establish yourself with people much more important than you in the community, get a promotion by showing initiative and doing whatever it takes to increase the profit margin at work (or just simply kissing the butts of your bosses and management), and overall doing whatever is needed for self-improvement so that the new year of 2009 will be a year of joy, fulfillment and prosperity.


Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Mr. Jaws {2:04}

2. Energy Crisis {1:42}

3. Superfly Meets Shaft {2:30}

4. The Touchables {1:57}

5. The Touchables in Brooklyn {1:50}

Side 2

1. Flying Saucer, Part 1 {2:12}

2. Flying Saucer, Part 2 {1:45}

3. Santa and the Satellite, Part 1 {1:37}

4. Santa and the Satellite, Part 2 {1:21}

5. Flying Saucer the Second {2:10}

John & Ernest - Super Fly Meets Shaft 7"

John & Ernest - Super Fly Meets Shaft 7"

Dickie Goodman is one of the producers of this 7 inch single of which side A of this has been included on an album by Goodman which will be posted shortly.

This is one of those faux-newsreport comedy bits, but rather than having someone impersonate the person being interviewed, a snippet from a song is used in place of the interviewee where the lyrics are the answers to the questions. These types of records are neat (I'm looking forward to posting that Dickie Goodman LP already mentioned). Side A is the news report about the fictional movie characters, Superfly and Shaft, where snippets from soul and r&b hits from back in the early 1970s are used. Side B, not included on the Goodman LP, is a repeat of the echo of the snippet used at the end of side A.

Tracklisting:

1. Super Fly Meets Shaft [both sides combined on one file] {4:20}