The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart

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The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
Live album by Bob Newhart
Released	1960
Genre	Stand-up comedy
Length	31:55
Label	Warner Bros.
Professional reviews
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Bob Newhart chronology
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960) The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back (1960)

The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart is a 1960 live album by comedian Bob Newhart. The debut album by Newhart, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Album chart, topping an album by Elvis Presley and the cast album of The Sound of Music.

It won Album of the Year at the 1961 Grammy Awards and Newhart was named Best New Artist.

Newhart wanted the title to be The Most Celebrated New Comedian Since Attila the Hun. But Warner Bros. executives created the album's title and Newhart had to settle for his idea as a subtitle.^[1]

The album was a 2006 entry into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. According to an NPR interview with Newhart, it's the 20th best-selling of all-time on Billboard's charts. [1]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 References in Popular Culture 3 Chart positions 4 Notes

[edit] Track listing

1. "Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue"– 7:31
2. "The Cruise of the U.S.S. Codfish"– 5:01
3. "Merchandising the Wright Brothers"– 3:12
4. "The Krushchev Landing Rehearsal"– 4:47
5. "Driving Instructor"– 8:03
6. "Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball" – 3:21

[edit] References in Popular Culture

• In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Brain That Wouldn't Die", Crow T. Robot quotes the Driving Instructor routine during a scene where a man is speeding.

• Stewart Copeland of The Police titled his song "The Other Way of Stopping" after a line from "Driving Instructor."

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1961	Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200) (mono)	1

[edit] Notes

Preceded by Calcutta! by Lawrence Welk

Billboard 200 number-one album (mono) May 29 - June 4, 1961

Succeeded by Camelot by Original Broadway Cast

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