The Three Faces of Al
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Studio album by Firesign Theatre | ||||
Released | 1984 | |||
Recorded | July–December 1983 | |||
Studio | Fred Jones Recording Services, Hollywood CA | |||
Genre | Comedy | |||
Length | 33:24 | |||
Label | Rhino Records | |||
Producer | Fred Jones | |||
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The Three Faces of Al is a 1984 comedy album by the group Firesign Theatre. It features the group members reprising their most popular characters from earlier collaborations, notably hard-boiled detective Nick Danger and his nemesis, Lieutenant Bradshaw.
In earlier albums, the characters refer to the "Anselmo pederasty" case. Even though this album occurs years later than the other albums, it is about that case, but Anselmo Von Pederazzi is a mob boss,[2] and the case is not actually about pederasty.
David Ossman] does not appear on the album, having left the group to work as a producer for National Public Radio. Ossman would return in 1998, on the album Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death.
The initial release on Rhino Records was at the dawn of compact discs, and was among or possibly the first comedy CD issued by any record company. The CD wasn't produced in very large quantities, however, and after it went out of print it became something of a collector's item for many years. The album was finally reissued on CD in 2008 as part of The Firesign Theatre's Nick Danger box set, Box of Danger on the Shout! Factory label.
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- Phil Austin
- Peter Bergman
- David Ossman
- Philip Proctor
- Dear Friends
- A Firesign Chat with Papoon
- Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe
- Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
- How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
- Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
- I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
- TV or Not TV
- How Time Flys
- Roller Maidens from Outer Space
- The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
- Everything You Know Is Wrong
- In the Next World, You're on Your Own
- Just Folks... A Firesign Chat
- Give Us a Break
- The Three Faces of Al
- Eat or Be Eaten
- Anythynge You Want To (Shakespeare's Lost Comedie)
- Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death
- Boom Dot Bust
- Bride of Firesign
- Dear Friends
- Forward Into the Past
- Lawyer's Hospital
- Box of Danger
- Shoes For Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre
- Papoon for President
- Duke of Madness Motors: The Complete "Dear Friends" Radio Era
- Dope Humor of the Seventies
- Not Insane or Anything You Want To
- What This Country Needs
- Fighting Clowns
- Back From the Shadows: The Firesign Theatre's 25th Anniversary Reunion Tour
- Radio Now Live
- B-17 Bomber (voiced by Proctor and Bergman)
- Pyst