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For tonight’s Bond on Vinyl post, we’re not listening to music from any James Bond film, just a parody album called James Blonde!
In 1958, the Colpix Records label was founded as the first recording company for Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems. The name Colpix is a combination of the name Columbia (Col) and Pictures (Pix). By January of the following year, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sued Columbia Pictures for $1,000,000 as they said the Colpix name was a confusing use of their trademarked label, Columbia Records. As far as I can tell, the infringement suit did not go anywhere, as the label name stuck until it was succeeded by Colgems (for Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems) in 1966.
Along the way, Colpix released hundreds of albums in a variety of genres, including music by Nina Simone, radio coverage of President Kennedy’s last days in Dallas, and comedy albums. In addition to albums of Hanna-Barbera cartoons such as Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, they also put out more adult fare from stand-up comedians like Woody Allen, Marty Brill, and Larry Foster. Brill and Foster teamed up for this 1965 album ‘James Blonde.’
This record is unique as it is a full-fledged James Bond parody album, released two years before the parody film, Casino Royale (1967). It is also interesting to me that the album is organized into eleven tracks, when it’s really one big 33-minute story, at most split into two acts. I really doubt listeners would skip right to a specific chapter and not take in the whole production. It’s a fun listen, and even with annoying audience laughter in the background, is a great spoof of the James Bond franchise.
137. Marty Brill & Larry Foster – James Blonde (“The Man From T.A.N.T.E.”)
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