Mind over Matter - Robert Klein

[@randimorgan8109]

Like some of you, I remember every joke including the intonation he used. I was a senior in hs and we would rush home, sit around the record player, get high, listen and laugh. There's another recording of his on KZbin that we loved too. A year later, in college I was on the entertainment committee and we had him come! I was so excited! I got to meet him and when we attempted to shake hands, he shook mine with a traditional shake. I, on the other hand was 17 and it was the 70s, so I just automatically used the funky handshake that was done back then. We laughed at how we then fumbled trying to use the other's handshake! So, it's time for him to go onstage and he opens with a right off the top of his head bit about which handshakes people use. It was brilliant and well received. I was thrilled. Definitely a highlight of my college years!

[@andyinoregon]

Good for you for inspiring one of our best stand-ups. What a time for comedy that was, with Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Robert Klein and David Steinberg all in their prime.

[@deborahstuckey877]

Like everyone else, I memorized every word of this album. What a genius!!

[@StupidTVclips]

I like "Opera Pimp". "You been holdin' out on me, bitch"?

[@devtrev6181]

I had his first 3 albums on 8-track as a kid, I wore them out.

[@harmonichebe]

an album worth memorizing, "wallowing in watergate" iOS an incredible piece of humor. Be Blessed

[@Robnroll26]

This album is timeless. Everything that happened then is happening now. Just substitute a politician, sports star, whatever. Whenever I watch Jeopardy, in the back of my mind I always hear, "Phyllis Newman $6,600, Robert Klein , just watching. Brilliant!

[@StupidTVclips]

That's cause people don't change. I'm still likely to chase a college girl @ 58 as when I was 28.

[@andyinoregon]

At 3:55 "My wife ... I think I'll keep her." The actor who delivered that ad line was Nicolas Coster, who famously played the sleazy lawyer for the Watergate burglars in a scene with Robert Redford at the beginning of the 1976 film "All the President's Men."

[@triciasomogyi5431]

WoW 😂

[@michaelkarath3407]

IMHO, the best comedy record of all time. I always thought it should be put in a space shot for other civilizations to discover far in the future. So many of his observations are just as crisp and accurate today.

[@harmonichebe]

child of the 50s was also great; wallowing in watergate from this record is incredibly funny. robert klein was the last great comedian

[@StupidTVclips]

Nah... some of my midwestern nitwits here don't get it so aliens surely won't. (And stop calling me Shirley!)

[@harmonichebe]

@Nicholas Pagano i don't know about the dozens of great comedians of which you speak. maybe a few, but not sure about dozens. most of those doing "stand up" couldn't get a chuckle out of me. Be Blessed

[@dodo1opps]

I got this from the college radio station I worked at. It didn't fit the station format so they had it in a closet from where I took it home. The album was edited for air play.

[@amherst88]

Thank you for this! Have every word and sound of Child of the 50's in my subconscious (most of New Teeth too) but have never heard this one -- he was/is the *best!*

[@mysticmaverick1]

Thank you for posting this! I used to have this album. I like the title song and think he is a good singer as well as being so funny, love his sarcasm. I am seeing him Saturday night. Once he forgot the lyrics to a song and I handed him my cell phone with the lyrics on it.

[@StupidTVclips]

Must have been embarrassing for him. I contacted his agents about posting these albums but never heard from them, so here they are.

[@mysticmaverick1]

I had this, Child of the 50s and New Teeth.Thank you again

[@mysticmaverick1]

He is so great as improvisation, it didn't fluster him at all, he made a joke about it in the moment.

[@StupidTVclips]

Yeah, I got them for a buck at a Long Island garage sale, I like the rants about TV commercials and there's NO shortage of material there!

[@romulusnr]

My father had this album and dubbed it to tape for me because I always wanted to listen to it as a kid.

[@ellibarasch2997]

I loved his gigs at Schaefer Music Festival in New York, ca. 1973-74. He'd put a straw in a glass of water -- "Wanna see science?" He was an influence on many of today's great comics - including Paul Reiser.

[@StupidTVclips]

Paul Reiser, who's that? jk

[@CaryMGVR]

*Love, love, L-O-V-E this album ....* 🙂👍🏻♥️♥️♥️

[@romulusnr]

12:05: "Good day to ask for a raise." Alright! If I had a job, I *would* ask for a raise!

[@BridgetR72]

I had all his albums, then the CD versions. Never saw him LIVE. I regret that. Absolutely brilliant comedian.

[@StupidTVclips]

Only guy I ever saw live was George Carlin cuz I was a devotee as a kid

[@nuthineatholl6434]

For me, the Holy Grail found at last! Used to have this brilliant album as a young teenager, memorized every syllable, every nuance. With the old MAD magazine, the Monty Python troupe, and a few other choice comedians (Jonathan Winters' early-'60s LPs and George Carlin's stuff) a link with sanity-preserving, open-minded benignly-intended mocking of the prevalent cultural foolishnesses well-deserving of being treated irreverently. Incidentally, someday I hope to post every record ever recorded, for duty and humanity. Cheers!

[@CroixdeLorraine]

Me, too!! I used to listen to his routines as part of the Ed Buchanan Comedy Hour on Sunday nights at 11:00 p.m. Helped me face the prospect of school the next day many a time!! Thanks, Robert!!🤣🤣😁✝️⚜️

[@StupidTVclips]

The old '60's MAD magazine and paperbacks, miss that stuff! MAD is republishing all that old stuff now.

[@CaryMGVR]

*"Sanity preserving" is 1000% correct!* 🙂👍🏻

[@bencomedianCH]

"we have all the supplies..... so we can demand whatever the f---- we want!"

[@dirkbag22]

I'd forgotten the harmonica/expiration bit. Damn that's great stuff.

[@StupidTVclips]

Sad so many don't know who he is

[@7554955]

My favorite

[@romulusnr]

9:12 CO-CA COLAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

[@jmmlpn286]

Sam's tailor shop, Baltimore Maryland. Fifty years on and I'm still laughing out loud at this album. So damn funny

[@johnbrowneyes7534]

Just found his vinyl album Child of the 50s with the big poster.

[@1761Charlie]

First class funny . . . especially if you are old enough to get some of the references . . . which I are . . .

[@carkkkent57]

I still laugh at this record after all these decades!

[@zhongwa]

"She's just a gal, that's all. Just a little gal."

[@ciarraibuzz]

It is still hilarious.