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"A shameless con man, old-time vaudevillian, stand-up comedian and jazz shaman, Lord Buckley single-handedly brought the hip semantic into the mainstream in the 1950s, mixing scat singing, black street talk and the King's English to tell and retell the stories of Jesus, Shakespeare, the Marquis de Sade, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and much more. He also worked with and/or left his mark on the likes of Charlie Parker, Dylan, Sinatra, Neal Cassady, Ken Kesey, George Harrison, James Dean, and Lenny Bruce.". "If so many of the most influential voices of our century were themselves influenced by…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2002Welcome Rain Publishers · 405 pages · 9781566491570
BiographyEntertainersPerforming arts, theaterComedians, biography





