Fighting Clowns

Fighting Clowns
Studio album by The Firesign Theatre
Released 1980
Genre Audio theater, satire, music
Length 38:50
Label Rhino
Producer The Firesign Theatre and Fred Jones
The Firesign Theatre chronology

Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe
(1979)		 Fighting Clowns
(1980)		 Lawyer's Hospital
(1982)
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Fighting Clowns is a 1980 album by The Firesign Theatre. It is unique among Firesign Theatre albums by virtue of the fact that it is primarily made up of songs rather than the group's usual audio theater or sketch comedy pieces. Many of the songs on this album were recorded live in front of an audience while some of the songs and much of the linking material was recorded in the studio.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "The Bozos Song"
  2. "The Four Gobs"
  3. "The 8 Shoes"
  4. "In The Hot Tub"
  5. "Hey, Reagan"

Side two

  1. "In The War Zone"
  2. "Oh, Afghanistan"
  3. "In The Alley"
  4. "Violent Juvenile Freaks"
  5. "In The Hot Tub Again"
  6. "This Bus Won't Go To War"

Bonus tracks

  1. "Jimmy Carter"

Performers

Issues and reissues

There have been numerous issues and re-issues of this album (and excerpts from this album) in a variety of formats including a one-sided picture disc.

Citations

  1. ^ Smith, Ronald L. The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide. Iola: Krause, 1996.
  2. ^ Carruthers, Sean. "Fighting Clowns > Overview." Allmusic. 04 Mar. 2006 <http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql= – 10:3hq7g4gttvoz>.
  3. ^ a b Firesign Theatre. Fighting Clowns. Mobile Fidelity, 1993.
  4. ^ Proctor, Phil (2012-09-01), "Phil's Fame", Planet Proctor: 5

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