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Up for auction is the 1974 rare original self titled Blues Jazz LP "R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders" on Blue Goose Records #2014. Visually graded using Goldmine standards, the vinyl is VG++ with excellent shine and extremely light surface wear. The jacket is VG with edge wear along the top with the beginnings of a split, and light ring wear. A tough one to find and not available on CD so don't miss out!

 We ship records in record mailers with LP outside of the jacket and in protective sleeves. Low starting bid and no reserve! Please see my other auctions for more rare vinyl.

R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders are a string band playing songs from, and in the style of, the 1920s. As a novelty, they issued a number of recordings on 78 rpm discs in the 1970s, long after the format was obsolete. Their three standard 33? rpm albums, all recorded in the 1970s on the Blue Goose label, were titled R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders (1974), R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders No. 2 (1976), and R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders No. 3 (1978); the latter two have been reissued on the Shanachie label asChasin' Rainbows (No. 2) and Singing In the Bathtub (No. 3).

Robert Crumb was the band's frontman and album cover artist though as of 2006 he is no longer much involved with the group. As of that year, the band included Robert Armstrong (vocals, saw, guitar), Bob Brozman (vocals, various steel instruments, guitar, ukulele), Al Dodge (vocals, mandolin), Terry Zwigoff (saw, cello, Stroh fiddle, and mandolin), and Tony Marcus (vocals, guitar, and fiddle).

Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943)—known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.

Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry. One of his most recognized works is the "Keep on Truckin'" comic, which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s. Others are the characters Devil Girl, Fritz the Cat, and Mr. Natural.

He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991.

Songs, Side One:

Song Time Writer/Arranger Drawing Laughing Rag 2:33 Sam Moore - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge The band playing and laughing True Blue Lou 3:02 Robin - Coslow - Whiting - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge Joplin-esque girl with prominent nipples and a halo wiping a tear as a man's foot zips out the side of the picture Little Rascals Medley 2:51 Hal Roach - - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge None Willy the Chimney Sweeper 2:55 Ernest Rodgers - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge Guy lying on his back smoking a long pipe Kiwi Bump 2:47 Armstrong - Dodge - Woltz Dancing Kiwi Cuckoo Waltz 3:02 Gunnel - Sandberg - Paddock - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge Hairy guy playing an accordion with a big smile Sweet Lorraine 3:11 Parish - Burwell - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge None

Songs, Side Two:

Song Time Writer/Arranger Drawing I'm Gonna Get It 3:41 Weldon - Broonzy - Brown - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge Crumb lasciviously chasing a woman, only leg and butt visible Lucille 2:52 Donaldson - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge None I Had But Fifty Cents 2:39 Traditional - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge Man punching another as woman looks on with surprise Down in Jungle Town 2:23 Morse - Madden - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge Cannibal with fingers in ears while banjo player in his stewpot plays Get a Load of This 2:57 Armstrong - Dodge Slob with TV tray, TV dinner, and TV Cheap Suit Special 3:19 Dodge None I'll See You in my Dreams 2:42 Kahn - Jones - arranged Armstrong - Crumb - Dodge None

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