Lord Buckley, the Ultimate Hipster

[Pilgrim]

Does anyone here remember Lord Buckley, the ultimate hipster progenitor of rap?...the beat jazz verbalist/comic who was there in the 40's and 50's, before them all? I actually have one of his LPs (Lord Buckley - Blowing His Mind and Yours, Too) that includes his famous routine "The Naz" (about Jesus..."da Naz"). You ain't heard nobody riff live 'till you've heard Lord buckley.

The Naz lyrics: http://www.airbrushmuseum.com/wig_bubbles_naz.htm

I remember on the album I have, the first time I heard the intro (the hip intro from Shakespeare's soliloquy by Marc Antony) "Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies, knock me your lobes...." I wondered what in the world I was hearing. It was all downhill after Lord Buckley...except for the voice-overs that Garrison Keillor does now with an upright bass keeping tempo on Prairie Home Companion.

More about Lord Buckley: http://www.lordbuckley.com/

Lord Buckley on TV, 1949: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-b6S94O-Wk

I suspect you'll have to have a bit of grey hair or be a REAL fan of older albums to be familiar with Lord Buckley - a very unusual man!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

"Hipsters, flipsters and finger poppin' daddies,
Knock me your lobes!"


How could anyone ever forget Lord Buckley?

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[dhermann1]

Oh yes! A true wild man! Waaaayyy ahead of his time.

 

[Warbaby]

Being one of those who "have a bit of grey hair", I discovered Lord Buckley when I was a teenager back in the late 50s and he's been one of my heroes ever since.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

How in the world did I miss this post???!!! I'm a big Richard Buckley fan - he was a "Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat". Here is a clip of him from the old 'You Bet Your Life': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw1eSo8-Zns

You know, Beatle George Harrison loved 'Lord Buckley' and wrote the song 'Crackerbox Palace' about his chance meeting with George Greif, Buckley's manager. Crackerbox Palace was what Buckley called his home in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Here's a little video about that: http://www.encyclopedia.com/video/nSaGHZ8GjIE-making-of-crackerbox-palace-george.aspx

-dixon 'the Nazz' cannon