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Joe Weber and Lew Fields : the Mike and Meyer files
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With their potent mixture of slapstick and fractured German dialect comedy, the pioneering duo of Joe Weber and Lew Fields can rightly be called the granddaddy of American comedy teams, laying the ...
With their potent mixture of slapstick and fractured German dialect comedy, the pioneering duo of Joe Weber and Lew Fields can rightly be called the granddaddy of American comedy teams, laying the foundation for later comedy teams the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello and the Three Stooges.
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- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Champaign, IL : Archeophone Records, [2019]
- ©2019, ℗2019
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- 1 audio disc (55 min., 20 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- audio file
- CD audio
- OCLC
- on1122745888
- Credits
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- Performed by Joe Weber and Lew Fields
- Title from disc label.
- Comic sketches.
- "Some selections on this CD contain racially derogatory material. These tracks are included here for their historical significance"--Booklet.
- Historical information, discographical details and biographical and program notes in English (30 pages) inserted in container.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 28-29)
- Recorded 1912-1937.
- Hypnotic scene (2:15) -- Drinking scene (2:47) -- Mosquito trust (3:01) -- Heinie at college (3:02) -- Etiquette scene (3:21) -- Race horse scene (3:16) -- Contract scene (3:15) -- Stock exchange scene (3:13) -- Insurance scene (2:55) -- Singing scene (3:15) -- Restaurant scene (2:38) -- Trust scene (3:04) -- The marriage market scene (2:23) -- Baseball game (2:45) -- Mike and Meyer at the football game, part 1 (3:17) -- Mike and Meyer at the football game, part 2 (3:30) -- Drinking scene (live on radio) (6:48)