Vintage Comedy with Davey Bold

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This channel is part of Vintage Comedy with Davey Bold — the record and story of a working club comic active in the Midwest from the late 1940s until his death in 1978. Davey Bold belonged to a generation of full-time circuit comics whose craft was shaped in live rooms, night after night, before television and mass media reshaped stand-up comedy. The three albums presented here offer a rare window into a traditional nightclub style already beginning to fade when they were recorded in the 1960s, capturing a form built on intimacy and immediacy with a live audience. The material is presented as it was originally heard by contemporary audiences and has not been modernized. Some references reflect the language and attitudes of their time. The linked website provides additional historical context and a fuller look at the life and working conditions of a professional club comic whose craft was built live, long before stand-up became a media product.