Rare Alan Seidler The Duke Of Ook R CRUMB Robert Cover art Blue Goose

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Rare vinyl pressing of "The Duke Of Ook" by Alan Seidler on the Blue Goose label 2015 from 1974 ? I believe. The music isn't what anyone is after here but the amazing artwork of R Crumb, one of the greatest underground comics artists there evere was. Below I'll give you some information that I found about Seidler & this l.p. Other than that the cover here has to be VG+. There is a cut corner but no artwork whatsoever is missing nor was any affected by the corner which of course denotes this l.p. as a cutout. It was most likely in the cutout bin at some record store for .99 at one time. There is also a little bit of seamwear & some general wear as you can see in the scan. The scan made it look a little worse than it appears at the bottom of the cover. The vinyl is a visual EX. just some light scuffing. Should play EX. to M-.

"The maniac theory explains Seidler as a child prodigy gone berserk – a budding classical composer whose mind snapped under the strain of strict discipline imposed at Juilliard (where Seidler once studied composition), who now avenges himself on the academic world that destroyed him by playing nonsensical songs and disreputable Tin Pan Alley tunes. Some of the known facts about Seidler’s history lend superficial credence to this view. For example, it is certain that Seidler was already composing classical works at the age of six; by the time he was nine, he had written no less than twenty-one symphonies and three operas, of which he once remarked: “The fact that each of these was a page long, if that, mattered little in the precocious mind of the composer.” Those who have seen the inside of Seidler’s New York apartment testify that he keeps (along with a pet gorilla) a framed certificate of dismissal from Juilliard on his bathroom wall".

"The title track from Alan Seidler's album The Duke of Ook is a deliciously weird takeoff on Gene Chandler's hit of 1962 (and oldie karaoke staple ever since) "Duke of Earl." It bears some resemblance to a chanted passage from "Duke of Prunes" as presented in 1967 on the album Absolutely Free by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Seidler's grand deviation from his life-long mission as composer of poetically inspired chamber music was this 14-track album of what he specifically described as neo-vaudeville and blues. It was anchored by his knack for barrelhouse and parlor piano, and enlivened by a private vocabulary as seen in the title "Won't You Come and Be Profligerate." Whereas he named young Al Jolson (circa 1911-1922) as a major vocal influence, Seidler' archaic saloon tenor delivery on this album sounds more like Arthur Askey, Donald Swann, or old-time British music hall comedians Billy Merson (whose "The Spaniard That Blighted Me Life" was covered by Jolson in 1913) and Harry Champion, who in 1931 gave the world "I Am Henery the Eighth I Am." The strongest example of this aspect of Seidler's complex performance persona is "Never oh Never Whatever You Do, Sing a Gorilla Song," which he is believed to have composed in 1963. The simian thematic runs rampant throughout Seidler's professed Weltanschauung, which is centered upon adoration of the Universal Ape, or as identified on this record, "The Universal Uk." Clues to this important mind-set are scattered throughout his song titles, which contain glowing examples of Seidler's personal lexicon. Poet Timothy Aurthur, with whom he collaborated for roughly 20 years beginning in the mid- to late '60s, was responsible for setting down a glossary of Seidler's neologisms".

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