Barry Humphries Sandy Agonistes Rare 1960 LP
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SANDY AGONISTES
Barry Humphries "This monologue was written and recorded in the basement of 2a Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, London, in the winter of 1960. I had borrowed a tape recorder from a friend and discovered that it was possible, at the touch of a button, to superimpose one performance over another, giving an eerie translucent effect. The tape was sent back to Melbourne with several others similarly recorded, and issued by Ruth and Peter Mann on the Score label.
Sandy Agonistes was not a huge success, though I now regard it as by far the best recording I have ever made. It is, I understand, a collector's item these days. It was certainly recorded under the most rudimentary, even primitive, conditions, and one does not have to listen too carefully to hear the rumble of the big red double-deckers outside my Notting Hill basement window."
DEBBIE THWAITE
"This recorded falsetto monologue of 1960 portrayed a type of Australian girl I kept meeting during my early weeks in London at the end of the 1950s. Often they succeeded in returning to Australia - always by steamer, in that far-off epoch - without having once met an English person.
The Debbies I knew - before the early days of jeans, duffle coats, backpacks and hitchhiking - all wore twin-sets, Black Watch tartan skirts, sockettes and sensible suede brogues. Beneath their bouncing pageboys they pronounced all that they admired 'superb'. Nice upper-middle-class Debbies' term of modish approbation would now be 'unreal', or 'am-aa-zing'; last year it was 'stunning' and before 'brillianf, before that 'super' and before that 'superb'.
Debbie's monologue was re-recorded in the late sixties and updated for decimal currency during her 'brilliant' period."
COLIN CARTWRIGHT
One of the monologues recorded in London for the Sandy Agonistes disc, is this Melbourne businessman intent on purchasing the affection of his children. On the recording the character suffers from attacks of flatulence induced by ulcers and apoplexy. Colin Cartwright has never appeared on stage.
LP includes original copy of Ray Lawler's comments on Sandy Agonistes on a separate insert.price rating
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