Laugh-In '69 - Original Cast Album

This LP was the second to have been lifted directly from the soundtrack of the socially groundbreaking weekly prime time television series Laugh-In. The edgy and ultra-hip comedy as well as the supremely quick editing style made the show an immediate success, as it was wholly unlike anything else on TV at that time. In addition to the blatant references to sex and (very occasionally) drugs, there were even more suggestive hidden or disguised inferences whose true and intended meanings would only fully be picked up by the ever growing counterculture. Laugh-In '69 essentially replicates a condensed version of a typical telecast, including many of the same motifs. Among the most memorable are the weekly trip to the 'Big Cocktail Party,' short poems and haikus 'By Henry Gibson,' the 'News' of the past, present, and future, as well as the perpetual one-liners that graduated from being called 'quickies' during the earlier seasons to 'Well, Ring My Chimes' and 'Dum Dums' on this platter. [allmusic.com - Lindsay Planer][]