Mulling It Over: Musical Oeuvre View

Martin Mull | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 1998)
• Original Release Date: August 25, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B000009S3F
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #274,305 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Normal

2. Ventriloquist Love

3. A Simple Carpenter

4. Licks off of Records

5. Miami

6. Margie the Midget

7. Dueling Tubas

8. Jesus Christ, Football Star

9. Flexible

10. Partly Marion

11. Do the Dog

12. Santafly

13. Straight Talk About the Blues

14. Ukelele Blues

15. Jesus Is Easy

16. Eggs

17. Dancing in the Nude

18. Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope

19. Noses Run in My Family

20. Hors d'Oeuvre

Editorial Reviews

1998 Razor & Tie reissue of this Martin Mull comedy album.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marty's Best! And then some!, June 6, 2000

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Tom Tuerff (That there Phoenix place) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mulling It Over: Musical Oeuvre View (Audio CD)

Those of you who know Martin Mull as an actor/pitchman or as he would prefer you to know him, as an artist, may not know that he put out a pile of albums on the Capricorn, ABC and Elektra labels in the 70s. It's the Capricorn years, when he did his best stuff, that is compiled and celebrated here.

Much of Marty's eponymous first album is here: "Ventriloquist Love" (I have fond memories of playing this song for my favorite High School English Teacher and watching her literally fall on the floor laughing), "Eggs", "Partly Marion", "Margie the Midget," "Hors d'oeuvre" and the FM-radio favorite Dancing in the Nude, which Benny Hill of all people once performed on his TV show.

What's particularly interesting about many of these tracks are the fantastic musicians. Check out the soloing on "Partly Marion" and you'll see why not too many people "got" what Mull was trying to do.

This is a fantastic CD--great liner notes and the sound is excellent. Prepare to laugh yourself silly, but in an intelligent way!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazzy Mull, March 26, 1999

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[e-mail] (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mulling It Over: Musical Oeuvre View (Audio CD)

Oh my yes! Martin Mull did have a very good recording career back in the early seventies when he produced several very witty jazz albums with his band "the furniture". In many ways he was a better guitar player than a comedian. I wish that Capricorn would release his other albums in CD Form. Very, very entertaining.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Missing at sea! Men!, November 28, 2001

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Alan Russo (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mulling It Over: Musical Oeuvre View (Audio CD)

Great collection! But where is his biggest hit Men. Very well known around the East coast in the day! "Men Men Men...It's a ship all filled with men...So throw your rubbers overboard there's no one here but Men!" Or how about They Never Met, a fun little duet with Melissa Manchester. Even though material is dated, it is still very funny to those of us who understand. How about releasing Lilly Tomlin-On Stage?