Sunday, November 18, 2012

Charlie Manna album covers


Charlie Manna (1920-1971) was a very funny Italian American comedian who was popular throughout the sixties but is sadly forgotten today...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Manna

                   Charlie Manna performs his act on the Johnny Cash show


His legacy is several great album covers: The first "Manna Overboard" from 1961, featured these fun, quirky background cartoons by an artist unknown to me:


The second "The Rise & Fall of a Great Society" from 1966, is by the one and only Jack Davis...


"Manna-Live!"... well two out of three ain't bad.



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1 comment:

  1. mike fontanelliNovember 23, 2012 at 10:54 PM

    Thanks for that. Charlie Manna looked just like my Dad, but sang a good deal better. I barely remember him, and usually confuse him with Pat Cooper. My folks saw them both perform standup back in the day. One of them (probably Manna) told the following joke:

    Two Italians sitting on a dock overlooking the sea.
    The first Italian says: "Is that a U-boat?"
    The second one answers: "No. 'Atsa not-a MY boat!"

    That joke is funny after a couple bottles of Chianti, but then anything would be.

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