The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
- The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
Infobox Album
Name = The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
Type = live
Artist = Bob Newhart
Released = 1960
Recorded =
Genre = Stand-up comedy
Length = 31:55
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pr548qtnbtz4 link]
Last album =
This album = "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart" (1960)
Next album = "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back" (1960)
"The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart" is a 1960 live album by comedian Bob Newhart. The debut album by Newhart, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Album chart, topping an album by Elvis Presley and the cast album of "The Sound of Music".
It won Album of the Year at the 1961 Grammy Awards and Newhart was named Best New Artist.
Newhart wanted the title to be "The Most Celebrated New Comedian Since Attila the Hun". But Warner Bros. executives created the album's title and Newhart had to settle for his idea as a subtitle. [cite book
last =Newhart
first =Bob
authorlink = Bob Newhart
coauthors =
title =I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!
publisher =Hyperion
date=2006
location =New York
pages =
url =
doi =
id =ISBN 1-4013-0246-7]
The album was a 2006 entry into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. According to an NPR interview with Newhart, it's the 20th best-selling of all-time on Billboard's charts. [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17561805]
Track listing
#"Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue"– 7:31
#"The Cruise of the U.S.S. Codfish"– 5:01
#"Merchandising the Wright Brothers"– 3:12
#"The Krushchev Landing Rehearsal"– 4:47
#"Driving Instructor"– 8:03
#"Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball" – 3:21
References in Popular Culture
*In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Brain That Wouldn't Die", Crow T. Robot quotes the Driving Instructor routine during a scene where a man is speeding. In the episode "The Human Duplicators", Dr. Forrester refers to "the button-down mind of TV's Frank" during the invention exchange.
* Stewart Copeland of The Police titled his song "The Other Way of Stopping" after a line from "Driving Instructor."
Chart positions
Notes
succession box
before = "Calcutta!" by Lawrence Welk
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album (mono)
years = May 29 1961 - June 4 1961
after = "Camelot" by Original Broadway Cast
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