It's Lenny & Squiggy!
Yes fans, Straight from the Laverne & Shirley show the two wacky friends recorded this concert LP back in 1979 & has been long out of print for years. Now those of you who have been searching can now relive their comedy concert on CD!
Tracks include...
Vamp On, Night After Night, Creature Without A Head, King Of The Cars, Squiggy's Wedding Day, Love Is A Terrible Thing, Babyland (For Eva Squigmann), If Only I Had Listened To Mama, So's Your old Testament, Sister-in-law, Honor Farm, Star Crossed, Only Women Cry, Foreign Legion Of Love, Vamp Off.
Included Bonus Tracks...
Ten Lenny & the Squigtone performances from the 'Laverne & Shirley' show!! (Star Crossed, The Jolliest Fat Man, You Gotta Strike When The Union Is Hot, Night After Night, Just A Couple Of Lover Boys, I Love Laverne, Hushabye, Telstar & The Look, Call The Police). Also one live performance of 'Creature Without A Head' from the show 'America 2-Night'!
CD Case Open
Back Cover
About Lenny And The
Squigtones
Michael McKean first got wide recognition as Lenny on the 50's-based sitcom Laverne
& Shirley. After a couple of singing performances on the show with his partner
Squiggy (played by David Lander), they got the chance to cut their own album. Recorded
live at the Roxy in Hollywood, they churn out a bunch of pretty funny parodies of 50's
rock ballads ("Night After Night," "Squiggy's Wedding Day"). In
between, there's plenty of schtick and patter, and most of that is funny as well
("So's Your Old Testament," "Babyland" - an incredibly corny poem in
honor of Squiggy's mother Eva). The satire's not nearly as sharp as Spinal Tap, the retro
backing is conventional, and the 70's produced way more 50's nostalgia than anyone needs,
but by the same token, this is about a million billion times better than anything by
Sha-Na-Na. Tap connection: Christopher Guest is credited on guitar as Nigel Tufnel,
marking the first appearance of the character; he may have been involved in the writing
too, but my copy doesn't list composer credits. Bonus spurious Tap connection: though I've
read that the album contains an early version of the Tap classic "Heavy Duty," I
don't hear anything of the sort here. (DBW)