Lord Buckley

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Lord Buckley (* as Richard Myrle Buckley, April 5, 1906 in Tuolumne , California ; † November 12, 1960 in New York City ) was an American stand-up comedian and entertainer who influenced and beatnik and hipster on stage connected monologues influenced by scat singing with the stage impersonification of an English nobleman.

Life

Buckley was the son of an English immigrant from Manchester and grew up in a region of California that was characterized by the timber industry. In his youth he was a woodcutter himself. He began performing as Dick Buckley in Medicine Shows , Tent Shows, and Speakeasies in the late 1920s . From 1932 to 1938 he was next to Red Skelton a leading emcee on dance marathons organized by the roller derby inventor Leo Seltzer in Chicago, and increasingly appeared in the jazz environment, so in 1940 in the Chicago club DeLisa . During World War II he was an entertainer for USO tours in the American armed forces, which also led to a lifelong friendship with Ed Sullivan . From the mid-1940s he lived in New York. With his stage character of Lord Buckley, he was particularly successful in hipster and beatnik circles in the 1950s. The subjects he “jazzed up” in hipster talk included Shakespeare and Mark Anton's funeral oration from Julius Caesar (from friends, Romans, fellow citizens, hear me became hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin 'daddies: knock me yours lobes ), fairy tales, Mahatma Gandhi ( The Hip Gahn ), the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe , the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln , the ballad The shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert Service , Jesus Christ ( The Nazz , 1952) and the Marquis de Sade ( The Bad-Rapping of the Marquis de Sade, the King of Bad Cats ).

Bob Dylan recalled Buckley as a hipster bebop preacher who defied all categories . He released several albums (first on Vaya Records in 1951) and appeared on the TV shows of Groucho Marx ( You Bet Your Life ), Steve Allen ( Tonight Show . 1955) and Ed Sullivan (first 1949 In Toast of the Town ). In 1954 he moved to Topanga Canyon, where he founded the Church of Living Swing , and in 1958/59 he took part in LSD experiments by the California psychiatrist Oscar Janiger . In 1960 he moved to San Francisco. Officially because of false information (he did not mention an arrest for the consumption of marijuana in Chicago in 1943), his Cabaret Card was withdrawn from him in October 1960 in New York (a last appearance in the Jazz Gallery in 1960 was canceled by the police), which he did Made appearances impossible and possibly contributed to his stroke the same year he died. The incident led to protests against the Cabaret Card System in New York ( Citizens' Emergency Committee among others with George Plimpton ), which led to the dismissal of the responsible Police Commissioner Kennedy. In 1967 the Cabaret Card System was completely abolished. Dizzy Gillespie and Ornette Coleman performed at a memorial concert for Buckley at The Village Gate in November 1960 .

According to his own statements, he was married six times. His last marriage took place in 1946 and lasted longer.

Discography

  • Parabolic Revelations Of The Late Lord Buckley. A Collection of Six Lessons by the Hip Messiah , Pye Records 1952 (with The Nazz )
  • Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin 'Daddies Knock Me Your Lobes , RCA Victor, 1955
  • Euphoria , Vaya Records, 1955
  • Euphoria Volume II , Vaya Records, 1956
  • Way Out Humor , World Pacific Records , 1959
  • Buckley's Best , World Pacific 1960 (live recording Los Angeles, Ivar Theater 1959)
  • The Best of Lord Buckley , Crestview Records, 1963, Elektra Records 1969 (recordings 1952, previously partially published by Vaya)
  • Lord Buckley In Concert , World Pacific, 1964
  • Blowing His Mind (and yours too) , World Pacific, 1960
  • The Bad Rapping of the Marquis De Sade , World Pacific, 1969 (live recording Oakland 1960)
  • Lord Buckley: a most immaculately hip aristocrat , Straight Records / Reprise, 1970 (compiled by Frank Zappa )

literature

  • Oliver Trager: Dig Infinity: The Life and Art of Lord Buckley, Welcome Rain Publishers 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Nazz
  2. ↑ Bob Dylan: Chronicles. Simon and Schuster, 2005: "Buckley was the hipster bebop preacher who defied all labels."
  3. ↑ Ed Sullivan's intervention did not lead to charges. He was previously under arrest for public drunkenness in Reno in 1941 , where he performed with Gene Krupa . The reason for the withdrawal of the Cabaret Card, however, was suspected more in Buckley's failure to pay bribes.
personal data
SURNAME Lord Buckley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buckley, Richard Myrle (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuolumne
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1960
Place of death New York City