Laurel and Hardy : Golden Age of Hollywood Comedy (LP)


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Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy  :  The Golden Age of Hollywood Comedy 1975  (mp3)  (128 kbps) Laurel & Hardy - The Golden Age Of Hollywood Comedy. United Artists Records - UAG.29676 Mono - UK, 1975. Vinyl LP, Compilation. Classic comedy routines from the much loved duo's films for Hal Roach Studios in the 1930s. This is the old "Laurel & Hardy - The Golden Age of Hollywood Comedy" LP.  Includes both songs and sketches from a variety of L&H shorts and feature films. The songs are good, but the dialogue tracks interspersed throughout take the LP to a higher level of enjoyment. Sleeve Notes : 1.  Track 9 reproduces the soundtrack clip with which the boys had a Number 1 hit in the British pop music charts in 1977, with the song The Trail of the Lonesome Pine , from Way Out West (1937). 2.  In Track 15, from Below Zero (1930), the boys get handed the frozen mit when they play In The Good Old Summertime during a blizzard ! Track listing :    1.       Introduction from              ANOTHER FINE MESS (1930)    2.       Fresh Fish              TOWED IN A HOLE (1933)    3.       Victims Of The Depression              ONE GOOD TURN (1931)    4.       Furniture Payment              THICKER THAN WATER (1935)    5.       Let Me Call You Sweetheart              SWISS MISS (1938)    6.       What flavours have you?              COME CLEAN (1931)    7.       Higher Endeavours              THEIR FIRST MISTAKE (1932)    8.       Mistaken Identity              PARDON US (1931)    9.       The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine              WAY OUT WEST (1937)   10.      Long Distance              THE FIXER UPPERS (1933)   11.      Oh Gaston              BELOW ZERO (1930)   12.      Stagecoach Manners              WAY OUT WEST (1937)   13.      At The Ball, That's All              WAY OUT WEST (1937)   14.      The New Recruits              BEAU HUNKS (1931)   15.      There's A Dollar              BELOW ZERO (1930)   16.      Hard Boiled Eggs And Nuts              COUNTY HOSPITAL (1932)   17.      Where Were You Born?              THE LAUREL AND HARDY MURDER CASE (1930)   18.      United We Stand              TOWED IN A HOLE (1933)   19.      Annual Convention              SONS OF THE DESERT (1934)   20.      We're Going Now              A PERFECT DAY (1929)   21.      Way Down South              WAY OUT WEST (1937)

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.