RARE BARRY HUMPHRIES*SANDY AGONISTES*ORIG 1960 OZ COMEDY SCORE AUSTRALIAN 12" LP

	A$		75
	$		50

1960 OZ-ONLY PRESS

12" 33-R.P.M.  LP RECORD

BARRY HUMPHRIES

"SANDY AGONISTES"

SCORE RECORDS AUSTRALIA

VINYL LP RECORD POL-024

VINYL: This is the Rare 1960 Original Australian Score Label Vinyl LP from Oz Comedy Artist Barry Humphries, "Sandy Agonistes". The Vinyl is in Very-Good to Very-Good-Plus (VG/VG+) Condition with some light and a few moderate scuffs & marks, heard as low-level crackle here and there. That said, it plays really well on both Sides. 

LABELS: The Score Labels are in Near-Mint (NM) Condition, as per the Photos.

COVER: The Single-Slot Cover is in Very-Good (VG) Condition, as per the Photos.

RECORD TEST DETAILS: This record has been test-played on an Audio-Technica AT-LP120 Turntable with AT-95E Cartridge and ATN-95E Stylus, with a 2.0g Tracking Setting. 

RECORD INFORMATION:

TRACKS:

A1 Buster Thompson

A2 Debbie Thwaite

A3 Colin Cartwright

B4 Sandy Agonistes

"From Barry Humphries"

SANDY STONE

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 'brilliant, 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.

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