# Baker’s Dozen III **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 22, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093 "2022-08-22T15:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 329
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**Comedy albums** 1. “Reality … What a Concept” - Robin Williams 2. “Comedy Is Not Pretty” - Steve Martin 3. “Class Clown” - George Carlin 4. “I Have A Pony” - Steven Wright 5. “Big Bambú” - Cheech and Chong 6. “This is a Recording” - Lily Tomlin 7. “An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer” - Tom Lehrer 8. “An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May” 9. “At the Drop of a Hat” - Flanders and Swan 10. “That Was The Year That Was” - Tom Lehrer 11. “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” - Bob Newhart 12. “To My Brother, Russell” - Bill Cosby 13. “My Son The Nut” – Allan Sherman (which contained “A Letter From Camp”, a/k/a “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”) Released in 1963, it was also the last comedy album to reach #1 on the Billboard album chart until Weird Al Yankovich did it in 2014. **‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles ---
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Excellent choice, **B\_B**! **‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye When I think of any those stories they are still in Kaye’s voice in my mind. ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye 5. Becoming - Michelle Obama ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye 5. Becoming - Michelle Obama 6. I Blow Minds for a Living - Jello Biafra ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye 5. Becoming - Michelle Obama 6. I Blow Minds for a Living - Jello Biafra 7. Moby Dick - Charles Laughton, et al. ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye 5. Becoming - Michelle Obama 6. I Blow Minds for a Living - Jello Biafra 7. Moby Dick - Charles Laughton, et al. 8. The Coral Sea - Patti Smith and Kevin Shields ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye 5. Becoming - Michelle Obama 6. I Blow Minds for a Living - Jello Biafra 7. Moby Dick - Charles Laughton, et al. 8. The Coral Sea - Patti Smith and Kevin Shields 9. A Child’s Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas “During his 1952 tour of America, while staying at the infamous Chelsea Hotel, he [Thomas] was approached by two recent graduates who believed there was a market for recorded poetry. Unable to find backers, the two women funded the project themselves, under their new company, [Caedmon Audio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedmon_Audio). Thomas appeared drunk and unprepared for the reading, but over time the record became popular, and is credited with launching the audiobook industry.” > **[A Child’s Christmas In Wales](https://annieseikonia.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/a-childs-christmas-in-wales/)** > > A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas is a deep exercise in nostalgia, one of the great evocations of childhood as idyll.  Originally inspired by a sketch written for the BBC in 1945 c… ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye 5. Becoming - Michelle Obama 6. I Blow Minds for a Living - Jello Biafra 7. Moby Dick - Charles Laughton, et al. 8. The Coral Sea - Patti Smith and Kevin Shields 9. A Child’s Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas 10. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: [A Memorial Album](https://www.ebay.com/itm/155871209186) My parents had this album, which was a collection of his memorable speeches ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye 5. Becoming - Michelle Obama 6. I Blow Minds for a Living - Jello Biafra 7. Moby Dick - Charles Laughton, et al. 8. The Coral Sea - Patti Smith and Kevin Shields 9. A Child’s Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas 10. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: [A Memorial Album](https://www.ebay.com/itm/155871209186) 11. Sebastian Cabot, Actor; Bob Dylan, Poet: A Dramatic Reading With Music (1967) ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye 5. Becoming - Michelle Obama 6. I Blow Minds for a Living - Jello Biafra 7. Moby Dick - Charles Laughton, et al. 8. The Coral Sea - Patti Smith and Kevin Shields 9. A Child’s Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas 10. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: [A Memorial Album](https://www.ebay.com/itm/155871209186) 11. Sebastian Cabot, Actor; Bob Dylan, Poet: A Dramatic Reading With Music (1967) 12. Think Tank - Henry Rollins ---
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**‘Spoken Word’ albums** 1. The First Family (1962) – Vaughn Meader 2. The Begatting of the President (1972) - Orson Welles 3. An American Prayer - The Doors 4. Stories for Children - Danny Kaye 5. Becoming - Michelle Obama 6. I Blow Minds for a Living - Jello Biafra 7. Moby Dick - Charles Laughton, et al. 8. The Coral Sea - Patti Smith and Kevin Shields 9. A Child’s Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas 10. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: [A Memorial Album](https://www.ebay.com/itm/155871209186) 11. Sebastian Cabot, Actor; Bob Dylan, Poet: A Dramatic Reading With Music (1967) 12. Think Tank - Henry Rollins 13. earth poems - Marcus Amaker Next up: **People from history you really wouldn’t have wanted to meet** 1. Vlad the Impaler ---
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**People from history you really wouldn’t have wanted to meet** 1. Vlad the Impaler 2. Pol Pot ---
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**People from history you really wouldn’t have wanted to meet** 1. Vlad the Impaler 2. Pol Pot 3. Genghis Khan ---
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**People from history you really wouldn’t have wanted to meet** 1. Vlad the Impaler 2. Pol Pot 3. Genghis Khan 4. Ed Gein ---
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**People from history you really wouldn’t have wanted to meet** 1. Vlad the Impaler 2. Pol Pot 3. Genghis Khan 4. Ed Gein 5. Heinrich Himmler ---
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**People from history you really wouldn’t have wanted to meet** 1. Vlad the Impaler 2. Pol Pot 3. Genghis Khan 4. Ed Gein 5. Heinrich Himmler 6. Idi Amin ---
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**People from history you really wouldn’t have wanted to meet** 1. Vlad the Impaler 2. Pol Pot 3. Genghis Khan 4. Ed Gein 5. Heinrich Himmler 6. Idi Amin 7. Attila the Hun ---
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