Moms Mabley
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Loretta Mary Aiken
aka Jackie Mabley |
Brevard, North Carolina, USA
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Mar 19 1894 – May 23 1975 age 81
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One
of the most amusing and beloved “characters” in comedy, earthy Moms
Mabley would come out on stage in a garish, bulky dress and start
lecturing the audience as if they were her children. She was comically
stern and raucously emphatic, laying down her philosophies of life and
love: “Love is just like a game of checkers, children. You sure got to
know which man to move! ‘Cause if you move the wrong man, and he jump
ya, tear your Mason and Dixon line up!”
Her favorite subject was changing times. She talked about her own problems with it: “Anybody who acts normal nowadays they’re probably just not well! I’m tellin’ you, I just don’t understand. If I go too fast, I’ll run into something, if I go too slow somethin’ll run into me.” Though she looked comically battered, rasping out her routines through a seemingly toothless mouth, her words were hip, her delivery feisty. A running gag was her hunt for swinging young men: “The only thing an old man can do for me is to get on a bicycle and bring me a message from a young man!” She insisted, “A woman is a woman until the day she dies. But a man’s a man only as long as he can!” ~excerpt, dead-frog.com
Her favorite subject was changing times. She talked about her own problems with it: “Anybody who acts normal nowadays they’re probably just not well! I’m tellin’ you, I just don’t understand. If I go too fast, I’ll run into something, if I go too slow somethin’ll run into me.” Though she looked comically battered, rasping out her routines through a seemingly toothless mouth, her words were hip, her delivery feisty. A running gag was her hunt for swinging young men: “The only thing an old man can do for me is to get on a bicycle and bring me a message from a young man!” She insisted, “A woman is a woman until the day she dies. But a man’s a man only as long as he can!” ~excerpt, dead-frog.com
01 Introduction 0:5102 The White House Conference 2:32
03 Without A Song 2:55
04 Me And LBJ 1:01
05 The Impossible Curtain 1:48
06 Funnies 7:12
07 The Beggar, The Crash 1:51
08 Domestic Relations 2:12
09 Pollution And Other Remarks 4:56
10 Introduction To The Opera 2:15
11 Opera 4:55
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Mercury – MG-21090
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