Currently jamming with Danny Kaye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0OjjYmRG0



yay!

I'll take a slot please... this is getting too good and t'would be a shame to let this pass off.

Anything below the 1950's I simply listen with gusto. Currently hunting LP records of Ray Noble and AL Bowlly... so if you have them, do tell.

Quote from: underwoodwriter on Apr 06, 2012, 09:09 PM

Endowed by nature with perhaps the most glorious baritone voice to be heard on an vaudeville stage since the memorable concert debut in 1835 of Millard Fillmore; endowed also with twelve incredibly agile fingers.

... Single white female seeks twelve-fingered virtuoso. Must like dogs.
(MARRY ME.)

Though I adore dogs (I keep a pack) and the company of intellectually stimulating ladies, I regret to inform you m'dear that my vows of chastity and celibacy precludes me from joining in matrimony. How about a cup of tea over the afternoon then?

Nah! C'mon guys i personally think you joining is the icing to cake. More fun! It's like a slumber party with comics.

I should like to introduce now the featured artist of this evening's...ordeal. I'm sure that you will all agree without any hesitation that Underwoodwriter is the most brilliant creative genius the world has produced in almost 200 years, so perhaps a few words of biographical background might not be amiss. Endowed by nature with perhaps the most glorious baritone voice to be heard on an vaudeville stage since the memorable concert debut in 1835 of Millard Fillmore; endowed also with twelve incredibly agile fingers; Underwoodwriter has had a long and varied career in the field of entertainment starting with nine years at Harvard University...where it was that he first decided to devote his life to what has since become a rather successful scientific project - namely, the attempt to prolong adolescence beyond all previous limits.

Even before he came to Harvard, however, he was well known in academic circles for his masterly translation into Latin of The Wizard of Oz, which remains even today the standard Latin version of that work. A few years ago he was inducted...forcibly...into the Japan Defence Force and spent most of his indenture in Okinawa as sort of Army liaison to the Office of Naval Contemplation. About his service record he is justifiably... modest, but it is known that in a short time he rose to the rank of brigadier general. However, before he could acquire a tenure, he was discharged, and owing to nepotism and intrigue, he emerged with only the rank of Specialist 3rd Class, which was roughly equivalent to the rank of Corporal without Portfolio.

But to return to his career in show business: for several years he toured vaudeville theaters with an act consisting of impressions of people in the last throes of various diseases. I'm sure that many of you here tonight still recall with pleasure his memorable diphtheria imitation. He is generally acknowledged to be the dean of living national composers, and is currently working on a musical comedy based on the life of Franz Kafka. Without further ado - Ike  a.k.a. Underwoodwriter...


most of it is just vanity but hey... it's vanity week. Also I pilfered this introduction from my idol.

Zhil byl korol' kogda-to, Pri njom blokha zhila"
"Ya idu kuda sam tzar' peshkom hodil"

Guess who

Udesuline





of course colouring this will take time since I have dog's vision.

more sketches.... I'll post more next time

more warm ups... practice practice practice...

's rather short and uninteresting biography, abridged edition:

Rich, arrogant, nasty, colonial big game hunter with a heart as cold as the gold bullion in the Bank of England (of which he now owns), Lt. Angus Broderick Pippington Oliver Cromwell Blackader, CBE, CStJ, is the epitome of upper crust snobbery with all that swinish and thick accented self-effacing humility that built an empire.

Blackader's philosophy is a simple one, you are either a hunter or the hunted. Only those that are true to his jungle principles of survival and supremacy earn his respect; all others are prey, to be tracked down, caught and killed. Such is the fate of those below him on the food chain.

After serving the crown faithfully and honestly as one decent ordinary human citizen can, Blackader's world crumbled as everyone became politically correct in his own time. This has not deterred him any way whatsoever and he still continues to live the life he lived prior to political correctness. His charming and witty remarks have been branded as insensitive, racist and down-right inhuman but for a man like Blackader, this is all hogwash and a conspiracy created by filthy and disgusting colored monkeys who don't have the good fortune to be English true-born, or a man, or a woman.

"The English, the English, the English are best, so up with the English and down with the rest. It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad it's knowing they're foreign that makes them so mad!" Blackader giving his comment on National Brotherhood Week.