Stan Freberg Discography

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CAPITOL COLLECTORS SERIES - CD Sampler
1990 [CD] In 1990, Capitol issued its "Collectors Series," mining their vaults and assembling CDs of the greatest hits of most major Capitol recording artists of the past. This CD featured one track from each, and Freberg was represented by Banana Boat.

STAN FREBERG (Capitol Collectors Series)
1990 [CD] And this was the Freberg CD issued as part of the Capitol Collectors Series.

John and Marsha • I've Got You Under My Skin • That's My Boy • Try • The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise • St. George and the Dragonet • Little Blue Riding Hood • Christmas Dragnet • C'est Si Bon • A Dear John and Marsha Letter • Sh-Boom • Yellow Rose of Texas • The Great Pretender • Heartbreak Hotel • Rock Island Line • Banana Boat • Tele-Vee-Shun • Wun'erful, Wun'erful • Green Chri$tma$

CHRISTMAS KISSES
1990 [CD] A collection of Capitol records about the holidays. Includes The Night Before Christmas.

DR. DEMENTO 20th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION
1991 [CD] Includes St. George and the Dragonet.

THE BEST OF THE BEST
1991 [CD] A collection of #1 hits from Liberty-EMI-Capitol Records. Includes Freberg's Yellow Rose of Texas, even though it never hit Number One.

WEIRD, WILD & WACKY
1991 [CD] A two-disc Time-Life set of silly tunes. Includes Freberg doing Heartbreak Hotel.

HELLO CHILDREN...EVERYWHERE - VOLUME 4
1991 [CD] A collection of records played on the British childrens' radio programs, Children's Favourites and Junior Choice. Mr. Freberg is represented by Yellow Rose of Texas.

STAN FREBERG GREATEST HITS
1993 [CD] A few years after issuing the Capitol Collectors Series CD, Capitol put out this lower-priced disc with half the tracks. A "Volume 2" was supposed to include the other half plus Christmas Dragnet but does not seem to ever have materialized.

St. George and the Dragonet • John and Marsha • Wun'erful, Wun'erful • Try • I've Got You Under My Skin • Little Blue Riding Hood • Yellow Rose of Texas • Banana Boat • The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise • Heartbreak Hotel

THE STAN FREBERG SHOW
1993 [CD] The Radiola company of Canada puts out a CD of two episodes (#4 and #13) from the 1957 radio show.

COMEDY CLASSICS ONE: STAN, PETER, SPIKE AND SPIKE
1993 [CD] An Australian CD that turned up in a lot of U.S. stores. Features cuts by Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Spike Jones and our boy Stan with the following selections...

Christmas Dragnet • C'est Si Bon • Sh-Boom • Green Christmas

THE AMERICAN COMEDY BOX
1995 [4-CD Boxed Set] Rhino Records released this overview of comedy which included Little Blue Riding Hood as an example of Frebergian artistry. The set comes with a book in which a photo of Daws Butler is erroneously identified as Stan. (When Stan called up and told this to the folks at the company, the reply he got was, "Are you sure?")

STAN FREBERG PRESENTS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, VOL. 2
1996 [CD] Thirty-five years after Volume 1 hit the stores, Freberg finally got around to putting out Volume 2. The third and final part has been written and Stan is hoping to get it out in less a third of a century. Featuring Tyne Daly, John Goodman, David Ogden Stiers, Sherman Hemsley, Harry Shearer, Jesse White, Donavan Freberg, June Foray, Lorenzo Music, Peter Leeds, Naomi Lewis, William Woodson, Donna Ebsen, John Crean and Donna Crean, with Corey Burton (channeling the late Paul Frees) as the narrator.

Overture • Madison, Jefferson, Franklin & Osbourne: The First Advertising Agency • America! America! • Rumplemeyer's Horseshoes: The Francis Scott Key Story • Stephen Foster, Beloved Songwriter • Samuel F. B. Morse Sends the First Telegram • Abe Lincoln in Analysis • Show Folk • Abe Lincoln at Home in the White House • Barbara Fretchie, Martyr of the Year • Shoot If You Must • Lincoln at Shiloh with General Grant • As Long as You're Up • A Sober Life's a Hard Life • Appomattox Courthouse Bar & Grill • There'll Never Be Another War • Custer's Last Stand • Alexander Graham Bell and the First Phone Call • Thomas Edison Invents the Light Bulb! The Phonograph! • Perseverance • Planned Obsolescence • Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk • Henry Ford Invents Detroit • Perseverance (Reprise) • Sinking of the Lusitania • Two Tin Pan Alley Songwriters: U-Boat • The Guns of August • Hello, Peace, Hello • There'll Never Be Another War (Reprise) • Finale: America! America! (Reprise)

STAN FREBERG PRESENTS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, VOL. 1 & VOL. 2
1996 [CD] Reissue of Volume 1 (including material cut from original release) plus newly-recorded Volume 2.

NUTTIN' FOR CHRISTMAS (Jukebox reissue)
1996? [45 RPM] A very limited pressing by Capitol that includes Freberg on one side. The other side contains I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas by Yogi Yorgesson. The label says "For jukeboxes only."

BAH, HUMBUG!: XMAS SONGS FOR GROUCH AND GRINCH
1996 [CD] Compilation of silly songs about Christmas. It features Green Chri$tma$.

DR. DEMENTO 25th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION
1996 [CD] Includes Heartbreak Hotel.

THE STAN FREBERG SHOW, VOL. 1
1997 [CD] Four disc boxed set presenting Shows #1-7 of the 1957 radio program, The Stan Freberg Show and new audio intro by Stan.

THE STAN FREBERG SHOW, VOL. 2
1997 [CD] Four disc boxed set presenting Shows #8-15 of the 1957 radio program, The Stan Freberg Show.

THE VERY BEST OF STAN FREBERG
1998 [CD] Retitled reissue of Stan Freberg (Capitol Collectors Series).

IT'S A KID'S CHRISTMAS
1998 [CD] A Christmas record compilation produced by EMI-Capitol Special Markets. Includes Mr. Freberg's Nuttin' for Christmas.

ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS ALBUM 4
1998 [CD] Radio station WOGL, which broadcasts at 98.1 in Philadelphia, assembles a holiday sampler, including Stan's Christmas Dragnet.

TIP OF THE FREBERG
1999 [4-CD Boxed Set, includes VHS tape] A fancy collection of Stan's best with an actual x-ray of his skull on the slipcase. Includes two records recorded but not released in the fifties: His parodies of Ed Sullivan's TV program (The Worse of the Town) and Arthur Godfrey's (That's Right, Arthur) were shelved at the time by nervous Capitol attorneys and this is their first official release. It also includes The Conspiraski Theory, which was done in 1999 and was Stan's first "single" in almost forty years, plus many commercials and radio spots never before on record. Freberg personally supervised the choice of the material and the remixing, and couldn't resist doing a few trims on some of the old spots, and he even recorded a few new lines, including redubbing one word in a speech by another actor. The commercial for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on Disc 4 was partially reconstructed with new recordings by Stan and his son, Donavan.

DISC 1: John and Marsha • I've Got You Under My Skin • That's My Boy • Try • The World is Waiting for the Sunrise • C'est Si Bon • A Dear John and Marsha Letter • Sh-Boom • The Yellow Rose of Texas • The Great Pretender • Heartbreak Hotel • Rock Island Line • Banana Boat • Tele-Vee-Shun • Wun'erful, Wun'erful! • (Ya Got) Trouble • The Old Payola Roll Blues • The Worst of the Town • That's Right, Arthur.

DISC 2: St. George and The Dragonet • Little Blue Riding Hood • Christmas Dragnet • Point of Order • Person To Pearson • The Honey-Earthers • The Lone Psychiatrist • Elderly Man River • Freberg in Advertisingland • Bang Gunleigh, U.S. Marshall Field • Incident At Los Voraces • Green Chri$tma$.

DISC 3: Overture • Columbus Discovers America • Pilgrim's Progress • The Thanksgiving Story (Under The Double Turkey) • Declaration of Independence • Betsy Ross and the Flag • Stephen Foster, Beloved Songwriter • Barbara Fretchie, Martyr of the Year • Shoot If You Must • Alexander Graham Bell and the First Phone Call • Thomas Edison Invents the Light Bulb! The Phonograph! (Part 1) • Perseverance • Thomas Edison Invents the Light Bulb! The Phonograph! (Part 2) • Planned Obsolescence • Henry Ford Invents Detroit • Perseverance (Reprise) • Omaha! • Folk Songs For Our Time: "Oh, Dat Freeway System" • Folk Songs For Our Time: "Which Is The Girl? Which Is The Boy?" • Anybody Here Remember Radio?

DISC 4: Puffed Grass from "Bang Gunleigh, U.S. Marshall Field" • Who Listens To Radio? • Empire State Building; Who Puts Eight Great Tomatoes In That Little Bitty Can? • Truth In Advertising • Hot Dog Hot Dog Hot Dog! • Stretching The Imagination • The Milk & I • Gilbert And Sullivan Spoof • Beat Poet • James Bond Spoof • Goldnoodle • Can I Have A Bite Of Your Pencil? • Floor Show Now Going On • Who Put The Handles On The Can? • The 1966 Chun King • Winding The War Down - The McGovern-Hatfield Amendment To End The War • Vietnamatic 3 - McGovern-Hatfield Amendment to End The War • Moby Dick • Painting On Radio • Today, the Pits; Tomorrow, the Wrinkles! (Bedtime Story) • Funnier Than Cleopatra; It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • Drink Big (Freedle Family Singers), Supercharger • What's That Bottled Revelation? • Clark Smathers Faces Life, Sunburn Remedy? • The Ineffectual Drumroll • A Star Is Born • Shluderberg & Kurdle: Song & Dance Men! • Toastal Engineering • Dr. Zhivago • The Irving Bell Story • Fantastic Sound System • Tom Sweet And His Electric Milky Way Machine • The Modern Army Song • Jazz On Rubberbands • Bad Hair Day • Talk Radio • North By Northgate • Scared Witless • The Golf Date • Do People Really Listen To Radio Commercials? • Omaha! • A Dinner For The Common Cold? • Taco Bell In China? • Name Confusion: Mia? Tia? Lisa? • Elton John Could Write A Song For You! • A "Smart" Toilet Seat? • A Territory's Great But You Gotta Have A State • Oregon Oregon • Show Opening: "The New Stan Freberg Show" • Pop Faithcorn: Trend Predictor • Theatre Of The Mind • The Freberg Zone • Father Of The Year • Spy Interview • The Conspiraski Theory

CHRISTMAS OLDIE HITS [aka CHRISTMAS COMEDY HITS]
2002? [CD] Includes Nuttin' for Christmas.

HAVE YOURSELF A CRAZY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
???? [CD] A collection of funny Christmas recordings by Freberg and dialect comedian Yogi Yorgesson. The Freberg cuts are as follows...

The Night Before Christmas • The Meaning of Christmas • Green Christmas • Nuttin' for Christmas • Christmas Dragnet

GOOFY GREATS
???? [CD] Includes John and Marsha.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN ROCK & ROLL NOVELTY EDITION
2002 [CD] A British collection that includes The Old Payola Roll Blues. Interesting sidelight: When that song was originally released in 1960, the British pressing omitted the reference to payola at the end. It was apparently okay to use the word in the title but not on the actual record.

THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS ALBUM 4
2003? [CD] Includes Christmas Dragnet.

HAVE A FUN CHRISTMAS
2003 [CD] This Time-Life Christmas compilation was usually sold as a boxed set of four CDs, though the individual CDs were also available separately. The Freberg entry was Christmas Dragnet, which was on Volume 2.

WACKY CHRISTMAS
2003 [CD] One of them compilations of silly Xmas tunes. Includes Nuttin' for Christmas.

EMI COMEDY - STAN FREBERG
2003 [CD] British import. For some reason, this CD is often listed as "Live Recordings," even though nothing on it was recorded "live."

The Yellow Rose of Texas • St. George and the Dragonet • Sh-Boom • C'est Si Bon • Rock Island Line • Tele-Vee-Shun • Rock Around Stephen Foster • Wun'erful, Wun'erful • Banana Boat • Little Blue Riding Hood • I've Got You Under My Skin • Heartbreak Hotel • The Quest For Bridey Hammerschlaugen • The Great Pretender • The Old Payola Roll Blues • Green Chri$tma$

GREAT CHILDREN'S FAVOURITES
???? [CD] A British CD of kids' records from the forties and fifties. Includes Freberg's Little Blue Riding Hood.

ELVIS MANIA
???? [2-CD set] Collection of novelty songs about Mr. Presley. Includes Mr. Freberg's rendition of Heartbreak Hotel.

CHRISTMAS COMEDY CLASSICS, VOL. 2
???? [CD] Contains The Night Before Christmas.

CLASSIC COMEDY BOX
???? [CD] A British release of a 3-CD set of great recorded comedy. The Freberg entry is Yellow Rose of Texas.

CRAZY GUYS - GEMS OF AMERICAN COMEDY
2005 [CD] Stan's in good company as St. George and the Dragonet is nestled into a CD of Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Victor Borge and many others.

This is where the Discography stops for now. There will be many more releases to come since Freberg will never be out of print.