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The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back is a 1960 stand-up comedy album by Bob Newhart. Released soon after Newhart's top-selling debut The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, the sequel album reached No. 1 on the Billboard Monophonic Action Albums chart on January 9, 1961. [3] The two albums would occupy the top two positions on the chart for almost 30 ...
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart is a 1960 live album by comedian Bob Newhart. Recorded at the Tidelands Club in Houston, Texas [ 4 ] by recording engineer Bill Holford , Newhart's debut album reached No. 1 on the Billboard Mono Action Albums chart (later the Billboard 200) on August 1, 1960, [ 5 ] and remained at the top for 14 weeks.
Newhart's routine was to portray one end of a conversation (usually a phone call), playing the comedic straight man while implying what the other person was saying. Newhart's 1960 comedy album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was the first comedy album to make number one on the Billboard charts and peaked at number two in the UK Albums Chart.
Bob Newhart, a 1960s stand-up comedy sensation who parlayed his low-key, deadpan style into sitcom gold on 'The Bob Newhart Show' and 'Newhart,' dies at 94.
Due to Newhart’s success with his album and as a stand-up comedian, he transitioned into television with his 1972 hit series The Bob Newhart Show. ... Bob Newhart. Larry Marano/Getty Images.
Newhart certainly looked the part of the weary everyman that he played so well on the comedy albums that launched his career, and on the two major sitcoms that bore his name — “The Bob Newhart ...
Sheldon Leonard Berman (February 3, 1925 – September 1, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, teacher, and lecturer. [1]He was awarded three gold records for his comedy albums and he won the first Grammy Award for a spoken comedy recording in 1959. [2]
Bob Newhart, the legendary comedian and actor whose humor was unparalleled, has died, ET has confirmed. He was 94.In a statement to ET, Newhart's longtime publicist, Jerry Digney, said Newhart ...