''Watch It, Sucker!'' is the second and most acclaimed album released by
American comic and actress
LaWanda Page, who released the album in 1977 under the name ''LaWanda''.
This was the first album where a group of musicians accompanied her creating more of the "party album" atmosphere of albums by her contemporaries, including best friends
Redd Foxx and
Rudy Ray Moore. As she was announced in her first live album, LaWanda was introduced by the emcee as "The Queen of Comedy".
This album went
gold
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on the strength of the comic's success as
Aunt Esther
Esther Winfield Anderson, known and feared as Aunt Esther, is a fictional character from the television series ''Sanford and Son''. She was played by actress LaWanda Page, an acquaintance of series star Redd Foxx. Page was Foxx's first and only ...
on the hit show, ''
Sanford and Son'', and was often sampled in hip-hop recordings. The album includes one of her most raunchy bits, "The Crazy House", in which she talks about a
mentally disturbed
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woman "climbing the walls" screaming for a "long black
dick", ending with her quoting a nurse, "you was crazy as hell when they brought you here, but you're in your right damn mind now."
The album also includes the raunchy preacher skits that she later revised for her third solo album, ''Preach On Sister, Preach On!''. LaWanda parodies
The Isley Brothers
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' "
It's Your Thing
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The lyrics of the chorus, ...
" after praising men for "
jerking off" during one preacher skit called "It's Your Thing".
Track listing
# "Hoe House Blues"
# "The Whores in Church"
# "Crazy House"
# "Bus Driver"
# "Thermometer"
# "Bye Bye Black Bird"
# "Ring Dang Do"
# "Star In The East"
# "Darkie"
# "The Buggy Ride"
# "Welcome"
# "Open Drawer Whores"
# "Suck It Dry"
# "Karate Monkey"
# "The Hoe'in Game"
# "It's Your Thing"
External links
Watch It, Sucker! at CD Universe.com
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LaWanda Page albums
1972 albums
Laff Records albums