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Brother Dave Gardner contains multitudes. For starters, this Southern comedian was also an ordained Baptist minister as well as being a drummer and a singer. Judging from this pair of albums from 1959 and 1960, his live shows were amazing performance pieces. His truly expansive routines included Shakespeare parodies, swinging musical passages, and funny digressions. There's also room here for cool-cat philosophizing, riffs on outer space, and preacherlike inflections. Brother Dave can spellbind the listener with his freewheeling rambles one minute and tell a riveting story the next. The routines feature countless hilarious voices and characters, not to mention jaw-dropping vocal sound effects. Incredible charisma and warmth imbue the entire CD. Brother Dave was an artist who was liable to draw from just about everything and anything and somehow make it all work. It's hard to imagine what '50s audiences made of this hipster from Tennessee. Country music legend Chet Atkins produced both of the original records. --Fred Cisterna

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Track Listings 1. Part 1: A. I'm Sitting On Top Of The World/B. Swanee 2. Part 2: A. What Am I Living For/B. White Silver Sands 3. Part 1: A. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)/B. You're My Everything 4. Part 2: A. Lover, ISBN13: B0000064F6 ISBN10: B0000064F6 Material Type: audioCD