THE LEGENDARY LORD BUCKLEY LINER NOTES

Richard "Lord" Buckley was born in Stockton, California in 1907, and died in New York City in 1960......I between, the legendary comic's comic spent hist ime having a ball, living out a life style of hip swing which, even today would raise as many eyebrows as smiles.....Almost earning a living as a stand-up comic, Buckley drew his unique, rapid fire style, freewheeling jazz-scat way of performing from the people he lived and worked with..............gangsters, black jazz musicians, and street wise angels of the 'other America'

He sewed the seeds of American stand-up comedy, carried on after his death by such people as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor..........His larger than life personality and total commitment to a hpster life style of 'fun, fun, fun', no matter the cost, make his mysterious death a sad reminder that Wetern Society does't put it's dissidents in mental homes or labour camps..........it relentlessly crushes them through and overwhelming beaurocracy

C .P .Lee 1982