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What This Country Needs (Proctor And Bergman Album)
''What This Country Needs'' is the second comedy album by the duo Proctor and Bergman of the Firesign Theatre. It was originally released in September 1975 on Columbia Records, and was among the Firesign Theatre's last Columbia albums, along with ''In the Next World, You're on Your Own'' and ''Forward Into The Past''. It was recorded from a live performance at The Bottom Line which contained material adapted or re-used from their 1973 studio album ''TV or Not TV'', plus several new sketches. Title and cover art The title is taken from a song Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman wrote, which parodies Vice President Thomas R. Marshall's famous quote, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar". The song says what this country needs is "a good five-cent ''joke''". The album's cover art mimics a cardboard cigar box lid, with a painting of Proctor dressed as a field worker in jean overalls and a straw hat, with Bergman dressed in a suit as the plantation owner. Proctor holds up a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proctor And Bergman
Proctor and Bergman was a comedy duo consisting of Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman. The two started performing in 1973 while taking a break from the four-man comedy act The Firesign Theatre, with the comedy album "TV or Not TV", on which they based a short film in 1978. They reunited the Firesign Theatre in 1974, but resumed their duo act in 1975 during a second temporary split of the Firesigns, and continued to perform as a duo during several breaks of the Firesign Theatre until Bergman's death in 2012. History Peter Bergman and Philip Proctor met while attending Yale University in the late 1950s, where Proctor studied acting, and Bergman edited the Yale comedy magazine. Bergman studied playwriting and collaborated as lyricist with Austin Pendleton on two Yale Dramat musicals in which Proctor starred: '' Tom Jones'', and ''Booth Is Back In Town''. Proctor was in Los Angeles in 1966, looking for acting work and watching the Sunset Strip curfew riots. When he discovered he was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |