Woody Allen (album)

Woody Allen is a live 1965 comedy album by the American comedian Woody Allen. This was Allen's debut recording, and was recorded at Mister Kelly's nightclub in Chicago.[2] It was the first of three comedy albums released by Allen, the three albums were issued in a 2014 boxset, The Stand-Up Years: 1964–1968.[3]

Woody Allen
Live album by
Woody Allen
ReleasedJuly 1964
RecordedMarch 1964 at Mister Kelly's, Chicago
GenreComedy
Lengthc.37 minutes
LabelColpix CP 518[1]
Woody Allen chronology
Woody Allen
(1964)		 Volume Two
(1965)

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.[2]

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 the nation's No 1. comedian".[4]

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.[5]

Awards
Year Award Work Result Ref.
1964 Best Comedy Performance Woody Allen Album Nominated [6]

References
  1. "Woody Allen – Woody Allen". discogs.com. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  2. Marion Meade (2000). The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography. Simon and Schuster. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-684-83374-3.
  3. "Woody Allen's Sixties Stand-Up Albums Reissued". Rolling Stone magazine. 22 September 1964. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  4. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (25 July 1964). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. https://www.theday.com/article/20121110/ent12/311109987
  6. "Woody Allen". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
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