Item #40770 Recording Submitted As Evidence In The San Francisco Obscenity Trial In March 1962. Lenny BRUCE.
Recording Submitted As Evidence In The San Francisco Obscenity Trial In March 1962.

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Recording Submitted As Evidence In The San Francisco Obscenity Trial In March 1962.

Hollywood, CA: private pressing (produced and distributed by Lenny Bruce), c. 1962/63. 10-inch LP record (LB-9001/9002). An unopened copy, still factory sealed in shrink wrap. Acquired from the record producer and recording engineer, Bones Howe, who helped Lenny make the record (Howe later worked with Elvis Presley and Tom Waits, among others).

Contains a recording of Lenny’s performance at San Francisco’s Jazz Workshop in October 1961, which he intended to play at his trial in March 1962. The routines are “A Pretty Bizarre Show” (in which the use of the word “cocksuckers” led to his arrest for giving an obscene show), “Dirty Toilet”, “C.E. Hoxie”, and “To Come”.

The trial jury acquitted him, but many more arrests under charges of obscenity followed. Sleeve prints photograph of Lenny dressed as a cop, subsequently included in “Stamp Help Out!”.

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