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Album: Let the Buyer Beware [Box]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Are There Any Niggers Here Tonight? - (previously unreleased)
2)    Clap, The - (previously unreleased)
3)    Lenny on Comedy, Pt. 1 - (previously unreleased)
4)    On Third Shows - (previously unreleased)
5)    Father Flotsky's Triumph - (previously unreleased)
6)    Lima, Ohio - (previously unreleased)
7)    Introduction to "The Palladium"/Annie Ross/What Was I Talking About? - (previously unreleased)
8)    Palladium, The - (previously unreleased)
9)    Explanation of Frank Dell and Bullets - (previously unreleased)
10)    Censorship on the Steve Allen Show - (previously unreleased)
11)    Taking Requests/Hip Diseases - (previously unreleased)
12)    Lawrence Welk Story, The - (previously unreleased)
13)    How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties - (previously unreleased)
14)    Gotta Split
15)    Lenny on Playboy's Penthouse - (previously unreleased)
1)    Testing the Sony Microphone - (previously unreleased)
2)    Lenny on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts - (previously unreleased)
3)    Critics/Club Owners - (previously unreleased)
4)    Monster Routine With Hecklers - (previously unreleased)
5)    I've Never Been in Love Before - (previously unreleased)
6)    Religions, Inc. - (previously unreleased)
7)    Lenny Interview - (previously unreleased)
8)    Airplane Glue
9)    Phone Company, The
10)    My Trip to Miami
11)    Psycho Doctors/Faye Bainter/Jack Paar - (previously unreleased)
12)    Ike, Sherm & Nick
13)    Non Skeddo Flies Again - (previously unreleased)
1)    Working Carnegie Hall
2)    Point of View
3)    Christ and Moses
4)    Spanish Harlem
5)    Joke, The
6)    Pretty Bizarre Show
7)    Dirty Toilet/Bad Early Toilet Training
8)    If Your Body Is Dirty, the Fault Lies With the Manufacturer
9)    What Should Be/What Is
10)    C.E. Hocksey Letters/My Father Solomon Osterow
11)    To Is a Preposition; Come Is a Verb
12)    Blah Blah Blah
13)    Dick Tracy Is an Orthodox Jew - (previously unreleased)
14)    Milton Berle/Dykes/Homosexuality - (previously unreleased)
15)    Cops/Where the Heat Are - (previously unreleased)
16)    Going to Court/Wear a Blue Suit - (previously unreleased)
17)    S.F. Gossip/Jewish & Goyish/Cat Downstairs Taping Show - (previously unreleased)
18)    Phantom, The - (previously unreleased)
19)    Would You Want Your Sister to Marry One of Them? - (previously unreleased)
20)    Chick Singer With a Gimmick - (previously unreleased)
21)    Billy Graham Is Not Qualified - (previously unreleased)
22)    Touch It Once - (previously unreleased)
23)    Black Cat/Get Stuffed/Why Did You Lie to Me?, The - (previously unreleased)
24)    Closing/Will Rogers Quote - (previously unreleased)
25)    Lawrence Welk the Hipster - (previously unreleased)
26)    Hubert's Museum
1)    I Just Do It and That's All
2)    Ruby the Robot - (previously unreleased)
3)    Mort Sahl, Shelley Berman, Jack Paar, Joey Bishop & Phyllis Diller/The
4)    Why the Breakfast Show - (previously unreleased)
5)    Meaning of Obscenity, Pt. 1/Drew Pearson's a Son of a Bitch, The - (previously unreleased)
6)    Norman Rockwell/The Jazz Scene - (previously unreleased)
7)    Word or the Act/We Fucked Their Mothers for Chocolate Bars, The - (previously unreleased)
8)    Jimmy Hoffa/Castro & Cuba - (previously unreleased)
9)    Thank You Masked Man - (previously unreleased)
10)    Dangerous Drugs/Marijuana - (previously unreleased)
11)    Jews Killed Christ - (previously unreleased)
12)    Marilyn Monroe/Narcotics vs. Juice - (previously unreleased)
13)    You Don't Remember Me, Do You?/You're So Classic...Smoking a Cigar - (previously unreleased)
14)    Kennedys/Jonathan Winters - (previously unreleased)
15)    W.C. Fields the Anti-Semite/Hookers on Record - (previously unreleased)
16)    Meaning of Obscenity, Pt. 2, The - (previously unreleased)
17)    San Francisco Bust/Judge Entrapment - (previously unreleased)
18)    Act Is Kissin' & Huggin', The - (previously unreleased)
19)    Vegas, Pt. 1/Johnny Mathis, Las - (previously unreleased)
20)    I'll Show You How Prejudiced You Are - (previously unreleased)
21)    Corrupt Cities/Chicago Shtarkers/Shelley Berman - (previously unreleased)
22)    Audience Banter/Why Doesn't He Do the Bits on the Records? - (previously unreleased)
23)    Lenny on Comedy, Pt. 2 - (previously unreleased)
24)    Snot
25)    Nerve of Faggots, The
26)    Hooker That Balled the President
27)    Divorce/Get Even/Stag Movies vs. King of Kings
28)    Norman Thomas/Filipinos/Midgets
29)    Vegas, Pt. 2/Pearl Bailey, Las
30)    Australia
31)    Bela Lugosi & Wallace Beery/Entrancing Transylvania/Herb Caen
32)    Warning, The - (previously unreleased)
1)    Best Man in the Tribe, The - (previously unreleased)
2)    Tribunal, The
3)    Schmuck - (previously unreleased)
4)    Reading the Court Transcript - (previously unreleased)
5)    Pissing in the Sink
6)    Jewish & Goyish
7)    Philly Bust/Judge Axelrod
8)    Tits and Ass
9)    Never Cop Out - (previously unreleased)
10)    Jackie Kennedy Hauls Ass/Selling Out Your Country (aka.Hot Lead Enema)
11)    Dick Gregory - (previously unreleased)
12)    Census Takers - (previously unreleased)
13)    Barry Goldwater/The Truth About Men/Doing It to a Chicken - (previously unreleased)
14)    L.B.J.
15)    Toilets/Flashers/Mark Eden Bust Developer
16)    How the Law Got Started (Eat, Sleep & Crap) - (previously unreleased)
17)    Playing Milwaukee - (previously unreleased)
18)    Marijuana/Flashers/Confusion/Bust in the Audience - (previously unreleased)
19)    Lenny Gets Busted Onstage & Audience Gets ID'd - (previously unreleased)
1)    All Alone - (previously unreleased)
2)    Heroin Bust, The - (previously unreleased)
3)    Juror Phone Calls Re: the Heroin Bust - (previously unreleased)
4)    Zeidler & Zeidler Commercials - (previously unreleased)
5)    Eleanor Roosevelt Had Nice Tits - (previously unreleased)
6)    Religions, Inc.
7)    Phone Call Reading a Letter - (previously unreleased)
8)    Christ and Moses - (previously unreleased)
9)    Phone Call to Harry Kalvin - (previously unreleased)
10)    Describing the Fillmore West/Yorty & L.A. - (previously unreleased)
11)    Southern Accents - (previously unreleased)
12)    Art and a Big Piece of Shit - (previously unreleased)
13)    I Picked on the Wrong God - (previously unreleased)
14)    My Name Is Adolf Eichmann - (previously unreleased)
 

Album: Let the Buyer Beware [Box]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Are There Any Niggers Here Tonight? - (previously unreleased)
2)    Clap, The - (previously unreleased)
3)    Lenny on Comedy, Pt. 1 - (previously unreleased)
4)    On Third Shows - (previously unreleased)
5)    Father Flotsky's Triumph - (previously unreleased)
6)    Lima, Ohio - (previously unreleased)
7)    Introduction to "The Palladium"/Annie Ross/What Was I Talking About? - (previously unreleased)
8)    Palladium, The - (previously unreleased)
9)    Explanation of Frank Dell and Bullets - (previously unreleased)
10)    Censorship on the Steve Allen Show - (previously unreleased)
11)    Taking Requests/Hip Diseases - (previously unreleased)
12)    Lawrence Welk Story, The - (previously unreleased)
13)    How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties - (previously unreleased)
14)    Gotta Split
15)    Lenny on Playboy's Penthouse - (previously unreleased)
1)    Testing the Sony Microphone - (previously unreleased)
2)    Lenny on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts - (previously unreleased)
3)    Critics/Club Owners - (previously unreleased)
4)    Monster Routine With Hecklers - (previously unreleased)
5)    I've Never Been in Love Before - (previously unreleased)
6)    Religions, Inc. - (previously unreleased)
7)    Lenny Interview - (previously unreleased)
8)    Airplane Glue
9)    Phone Company, The
10)    My Trip to Miami
11)    Psycho Doctors/Faye Bainter/Jack Paar - (previously unreleased)
12)    Ike, Sherm & Nick
13)    Non Skeddo Flies Again - (previously unreleased)
1)    Working Carnegie Hall
2)    Point of View
3)    Christ and Moses
4)    Spanish Harlem
5)    Joke, The
6)    Pretty Bizarre Show
7)    Dirty Toilet/Bad Early Toilet Training
8)    If Your Body Is Dirty, the Fault Lies With the Manufacturer
9)    What Should Be/What Is
10)    C.E. Hocksey Letters/My Father Solomon Osterow
11)    To Is a Preposition; Come Is a Verb
12)    Blah Blah Blah
13)    Dick Tracy Is an Orthodox Jew - (previously unreleased)
14)    Milton Berle/Dykes/Homosexuality - (previously unreleased)
15)    Cops/Where the Heat Are - (previously unreleased)
16)    Going to Court/Wear a Blue Suit - (previously unreleased)
17)    S.F. Gossip/Jewish & Goyish/Cat Downstairs Taping Show - (previously unreleased)
18)    Phantom, The - (previously unreleased)
19)    Would You Want Your Sister to Marry One of Them? - (previously unreleased)
20)    Chick Singer With a Gimmick - (previously unreleased)
21)    Billy Graham Is Not Qualified - (previously unreleased)
22)    Touch It Once - (previously unreleased)
23)    Black Cat/Get Stuffed/Why Did You Lie to Me?, The - (previously unreleased)
24)    Closing/Will Rogers Quote - (previously unreleased)
25)    Lawrence Welk the Hipster - (previously unreleased)
26)    Hubert's Museum
1)    I Just Do It and That's All
2)    Ruby the Robot - (previously unreleased)
3)    Mort Sahl, Shelley Berman, Jack Paar, Joey Bishop & Phyllis Diller/The
4)    Why the Breakfast Show - (previously unreleased)
5)    Meaning of Obscenity, Pt. 1/Drew Pearson's a Son of a Bitch, The - (previously unreleased)
6)    Norman Rockwell/The Jazz Scene - (previously unreleased)
7)    Word or the Act/We Fucked Their Mothers for Chocolate Bars, The - (previously unreleased)
8)    Jimmy Hoffa/Castro & Cuba - (previously unreleased)
9)    Thank You Masked Man - (previously unreleased)
10)    Dangerous Drugs/Marijuana - (previously unreleased)
11)    Jews Killed Christ - (previously unreleased)
12)    Marilyn Monroe/Narcotics vs. Juice - (previously unreleased)
13)    You Don't Remember Me, Do You?/You're So Classic...Smoking a Cigar - (previously unreleased)
14)    Kennedys/Jonathan Winters - (previously unreleased)
15)    W.C. Fields the Anti-Semite/Hookers on Record - (previously unreleased)
16)    Meaning of Obscenity, Pt. 2, The - (previously unreleased)
17)    San Francisco Bust/Judge Entrapment - (previously unreleased)
18)    Act Is Kissin' & Huggin', The - (previously unreleased)
19)    Vegas, Pt. 1/Johnny Mathis, Las - (previously unreleased)
20)    I'll Show You How Prejudiced You Are - (previously unreleased)
21)    Corrupt Cities/Chicago Shtarkers/Shelley Berman - (previously unreleased)
22)    Audience Banter/Why Doesn't He Do the Bits on the Records? - (previously unreleased)
23)    Lenny on Comedy, Pt. 2 - (previously unreleased)
24)    Snot
25)    Nerve of Faggots, The
26)    Hooker That Balled the President
27)    Divorce/Get Even/Stag Movies vs. King of Kings
28)    Norman Thomas/Filipinos/Midgets
29)    Vegas, Pt. 2/Pearl Bailey, Las
30)    Australia
31)    Bela Lugosi & Wallace Beery/Entrancing Transylvania/Herb Caen
32)    Warning, The - (previously unreleased)
1)    Best Man in the Tribe, The - (previously unreleased)
2)    Tribunal, The
3)    Schmuck - (previously unreleased)
4)    Reading the Court Transcript - (previously unreleased)
5)    Pissing in the Sink
6)    Jewish & Goyish
7)    Philly Bust/Judge Axelrod
8)    Tits and Ass
9)    Never Cop Out - (previously unreleased)
10)    Jackie Kennedy Hauls Ass/Selling Out Your Country (aka.Hot Lead Enema)
11)    Dick Gregory - (previously unreleased)
12)    Census Takers - (previously unreleased)
13)    Barry Goldwater/The Truth About Men/Doing It to a Chicken - (previously unreleased)
14)    L.B.J.
15)    Toilets/Flashers/Mark Eden Bust Developer
16)    How the Law Got Started (Eat, Sleep & Crap) - (previously unreleased)
17)    Playing Milwaukee - (previously unreleased)
18)    Marijuana/Flashers/Confusion/Bust in the Audience - (previously unreleased)
19)    Lenny Gets Busted Onstage & Audience Gets ID'd - (previously unreleased)
1)    All Alone - (previously unreleased)
2)    Heroin Bust, The - (previously unreleased)
3)    Juror Phone Calls Re: the Heroin Bust - (previously unreleased)
4)    Zeidler & Zeidler Commercials - (previously unreleased)
5)    Eleanor Roosevelt Had Nice Tits - (previously unreleased)
6)    Religions, Inc.
7)    Phone Call Reading a Letter - (previously unreleased)
8)    Christ and Moses - (previously unreleased)
9)    Phone Call to Harry Kalvin - (previously unreleased)
10)    Describing the Fillmore West/Yorty & L.A. - (previously unreleased)
11)    Southern Accents - (previously unreleased)
12)    Art and a Big Piece of Shit - (previously unreleased)
13)    I Picked on the Wrong God - (previously unreleased)
14)    My Name Is Adolf Eichmann - (previously unreleased)
 
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Performer Notes
  • Liner Note Authors: Kitty Bruce; Marvin Worth; Hal Willner; Lenny Bruce; Paul Krassner; Bob Dylan.
  • Recording information: Ann's 440 Club, San Francisco, CA (10/1948-??/1966); Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA (10/1948-??/1966); Carnegie Hall, New York, NY (10/1948-??/1966); Curran Theater, San Francisco, CA (10/1948-??/1966); Facks II, San Francisco, CA (10/1948-??/1966); Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (10/1948-??/1966); Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, CA (10/1948-??/1966); Los Angeles, CA (10/1948-??/1966); New York, NY (10/1948-??/1966); Off Broadway, San Francisco, CA (10/1948-??/1966); Peacock Lane, Hollywood, CA (10/1948-??/1966); Radio Station KPIX, San Francisco, CA (10/1948-??/1966); Radio Station WCBS, New York, NY (10/1948-??/1966); Radio Station WFMT, Chicago, IL (10/1948-??/1966); Television Station WBKB, Chicago, IL (10/1948-??/1966); The Den, New York, NY (10/1948-??/1966); The Gate Of Horn, Chicago, IL (10/1948-??/1966).
  • Photographers: Fred McDarrah; Norm Schindler; Corbis Bettman; Barry Feinstein; Jim Dickson.
  • Considering what an enormous impact Lenny Bruce had on modern social mores, satire, politics, and entertainment, it's surprising that a box set of his material didn't appear until nearly four decades after his 1966 death. LET THE BUYER BEWARE presents six discs' worth of Bruce at his best. Shockingly, it consists predominantly of previously unreleased recordings. For as much fine Bruce work as there is on previous releases, the mercurial, spontaneous nature of his art was such that even the performances that had fallen through the cracks, as on this set, were masterpieces in and of themselves.
  • Listening to Bruce's humanistic but uncompromising skewering of everything from legal and moral hypocrisy to jazz musicians and fellow comedians, it also becomes apparent how much craftsmanship actually went into his free-wheeling style. Many of the routines heard here exist in different forms on other Bruce albums, and comparisons reveal the masterful manner in which Bruce would branch off and experiment even within a predetermined framework. While some of the references may sound dated to 21st-century ears, the incisive themes and expert comic technique in abundance on LET THE BUYER BEWARE make it clear why Bruce remains an iconoclastic legend.
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (p.180) - "[T]he definitive audio-biography of Bruce as a revolutionary craftsman and antic wit."

Down Beat (pp.80-1) - 5 stars out of 5 - "Bruce challenged contentment, especially when polished in the gloss of hypocrisy. He spoke the language of jazz in his monologues, which were more like free-form satirical essays and psychodramas laced with Yiddish slang than standup bits."
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