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Dropping Anchors
Harry Shearer
Dropping Anchors
Genres: Special Interest, Pop
 
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This comedy album boasts a satirical salute and final farewell to the era of the TV news anchor. Koppel, Rather, Jennings, Brokaw, Aaron Brown, even Barbara Walters have all left the anchor chair in the past few months. On...  more »

     
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All Artists: Harry Shearer
Title: Dropping Anchors
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Courgette Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 3/21/2006
Genres: Special Interest, Pop
Style: Comedy & Spoken Word
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 856763001224

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This comedy album boasts a satirical salute and final farewell to the era of the TV news anchor. Koppel, Rather, Jennings, Brokaw, Aaron Brown, even Barbara Walters have all left the anchor chair in the past few months. On "Dropping Anchors", satirist and voice-man extraordinaire Harry Shearer pays them the tribute they deserve. In savagely incisive, satirical strokes, he portrays Koppel's agonies at ABC, Rather's dialogues with colleagues dead and alive, Brokaw's new projects - including a CD of "Songs In The Key Of L" - , and Walters' impassioned denial that she's had 82 facelifts. Shearer writes and performs all the comedy and music, much of it based on material from his nationally (and internationally) syndicated weekly radio hour, "Le Show", but adapted, re-recorded, and remastered specifically for this CD.
 

CD Reviews

Wickedly funny, but too short and too narrow a focus
BeeDub in A2 | Ann Arbor, MI United States | 03/27/2006
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Harry Shearer's "Le Show" on NPR (now in its 22nd year of disservice) is a one-man wonder of a thing, featuring the sharpest, smartest satire around. Through marvelous editing, Harry conducts interviews and does sketches, performing all the voices himself. Harry and wife Judith Owen are launching their new Courgette Records label with this release. It's a shame this CD clocks in at just over 40 minutes, and is limited to TV news topics only. Harry's last LS compliation, "It Must Have Been Something I Said," is far superior, and holds up to repeated listening, even over a decade later. I'm still a huge fan of Le Show, I just wished there was more to sink one's teeth into here!"