Over at Rainbow's [Import]

Peter Cook | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 5, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Proper Pairs
• ASIN: B00006AL5J
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,811 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Rainbow Connection

2. Parliamentary Privilege

3. Try Living with Her

4. Fritz

5. Dud's Clause and Liz's Tits

6. On and on All Night

7. Eight Billion to One

8. Speed of Darkness

9. George of Hamsters

10. Curtains

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The Comic, The Mystic and The Tramp

2. Gefilte Rotweiller

3. Placebos

4. Beverley's Mouth

5. Play Wisty for Me

6. Oedipus Schmoedipus

7. A Ghastly Failure

8. Tomorrow Will Be Stunning

9. Heady Gudgeon

Editorial Reviews

Import exclusive budget-price compilation. Previously unreleased, the existence of these hugely entertaining recordings has been the subject of much speculation by aficionados of the comic genius since his death in 1995. This package contains some of the funniest excerpts (including him as Sven on LBC). Featuring the best quality mastering, high quality packaging, slipcase & a 16-page full color booklet (including discography, biographical notes & photos). Over two hours of music. 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Moustache & The Beard, January 17, 2003

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"hulucass" (Bedfordshire, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over at Rainbow's (Audio CD)

What happened to the fascinating Peter Cook after Derek & Clives I, II, III & the video? While Dudley was swanning around Hollywood with women twice his size, Peter held the fort in Hampstead, England. He strolled, stumbled or gallivanted around to his neighbour George's house, where the eccentric guru George taped him in a variety of moods... laughing, slurred, razor-sharp, witty as sin, ludicrous, bored and plain glorious. It is said that the two CDs (an hour each) in this package are taken from countless years of conversation. Until we can hear the rest of it, 'Over At Rainbow's' will do very very nicely indeed. Because this really does feel like we are meeting the real Cook. It is a revelation. Who would have thought that the father of modern satire would have been sitting around claiming to be jewish, or phoning radio shows as a German and a Norwegian, or discussing exercise with a tramp (standing on his last legs), or rehearsing visits to a psychiatrist, or discussing Mickey Rooney's entrapment in a lift, Jane Russell's assault on Elizabeth Taylor's breasts, and whether bringing down the establishment would just mean "some other cu*ts coming round asking me for something for nothing".
These CDs encapsulate the story that followed Derek & Clive, which most know off by heart now. They resonate on many levels - being both funny and funny-peculiar, rather spooky, a massive piss-take of new-age religion and suprisingly touching.
Dudley Moore left Peter Cook when he most needed him. And - as we hear here - Cook struggled through in the most philosophical, mystical, polite and hysterical way.
I will give this four stars rather than five stars only because Peter is sporting a moustache on the cover.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing more revealing, September 25, 2003

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Barry (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over at Rainbow's (Audio CD)

There is nothing in the canon of recorded sound that is remotely like it. Nothing more revealing. Nothing, in some ways, more ridiculous: a kind of contemporary version of Boswell's life of Dr Johnson in hi-fi, with the tape machine acting as the silent and uncritical scribe.
...The indisputable highlight is a long and extraordinary Pinteresque episode, 'The Comic, the Mystic and the Tramp'. it involves George, Peter and a hungry bum called John, a.k.a. Bronco. 'The Comic, the Mystic and the Tramp' is a unique masterpiece of improvised, unintentional theatre: there should be a name for this new art form - TAPE (Theatre Accidentally performed Electronically) posisbly, or Reel Life.
An enterprising director should transcribe it and put it on the stage. it really is that good.
The similarity with Pinter is not, come to think of it, entirely accidental. Cook and Pinter both closely observed and wrote distinctively about isolated people, mainly men, who create their own and often impenetrable worlds. Indeed, the links between Cook and Pinter are numerous and some anorak researcher might find it worth his while. The best tracks on Derek & Clive albums are when these particular kind of men are speaking, men who live beyond feeling. 'Over At Rainbow's' echoes much of this and is a triumph. the fact that George Weiss led the daft and slightly murky Rainbow party is not important. That he had a tape machine on twenty-four hours a day, expecting to pick up messages from higher beings, is. And it did pick up messages from at least one higher being: his friend and neighbour, one P. Cook.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sexy, sad, cool, funky, October 7, 2002

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Kate (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over at Rainbow's (Audio CD)

This goes where comedy hasn't gone before - which is the best thing comedy can do. This is the comedy of the comedian in the company of his neighbours, the comedy of boredom, the comedy of zen and nez. I met Cook when I was a teenager and this record confirms and expands my thoughts on him. Sexy, sad, cool, funky.