Bert and I /
More Bert and I
by Robert Bryan and Marshall Dodge
$18.95
1 CD, Maine Humor
ABOUT THE CD
The iconic "Bert and I" stories were first created by Yale University students Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan in the late 1950s and performed around campus. The two amateur storytellers soon recorded a short 10-inch album of 11 stories for friends and family, but ultimately pressed just a few hundred. However, growing popularity prompted them in 1958 to record and release the seminal commercial album of New England humor and storytelling – "Bert and I ... And Other Stories from Down East." Featuring 19 stories, the album depicted Maine fishermen and woodsmen with dry, classic humor and set the tone of direction of the genre for decades.
The duo then made "More Bert and I," adding 14 more stories, telling tales of New England characters and situations with extra-dry wit and subtle humor.
This double-length CD combines the original Bert and I album and its follow-up into one double-length CD.
ABOUT THE STORYTELLERS
Marshall "Mike" Dodge stands undeniably as a godfather of Down East humor, bringing an energy and imagination to the stage that took him from a small Connecticut
studio to his standing as the premier "New England" humorist of his era, before he was tragically killed by a hit-and-run driver in Hawaii in 1982. He was just 45. Mike was born in New York, attended high school in New Hampshire (where he first heard "Down East humor"), and graduated from Yale, where he studied philosophy. It was at Yale in 1958 that he and Bob Bryan cut the first Bert and I album and launched what is now a Maine icon.
Robert Bryan helped launch Bert and I with Dodge in part by drawing upon his memories from childhood summers spent at his beloved Tunk Lake,
where he was fascinated by the area's stories and storytellers. Like Dodge, Bob was born and raised in New York and graduated from Yale. Unlike Dodge, who continued as full-time performer, Rev. Robert A. Bryan used earnings from the early records in the 1960s to help launch and grow another dream – the Quebec-Labrador Foundation, which provides support to remote communities mainly in Quebec and Labrador. Bob continues as a major force at QLF and remains involved in the continued life of Bert and I.
TRACK LIST for Bert and I
1. Bert and I
2. Kenneth Fowler Goes Hunting
3. Camden Pierce Goes to New York
4. The Sassage
5. The Lighter-than-Air Balloon
6. Which Way to East Vassalboro?
7. Which Way to Millinocket? (Click the title to hear this track)
8. The Long Hill
9. The Liar
10. Mad Dog
11. Down East Socialism (Click the title to hear this track)
12. Down East Religion
13. Albert's Moose
14. Virgil Bliss
15. Chester Coomb's Firstborn
16. Arnold Bunker Testifies
17. The Body in the Kelp
18. The Long Fezzle
19. Harry Whitfield's Trip
TRACK LIST for More Bert and I
20. More Bert and I
21. Tin Roof
22. President Harding
23. Not Just Yet
24. The Lament of Age
25. The Sleeping Porch
26. The Punt
27. Old Blue
28. The Plane Ride
29. Poorly
30. The Return of Virgil
31. Government Fly
32. The Little Gull
33. Harry's Return
Which Way to Millinocket?
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