The prototypical comedy duo, no doubt the major influence for Abbott and Costello as well as countless other Vaudeville comedy teams, these guys were a theatrical sensation a hundred years ago. Though some of the jokes are stale,
the sincerity of their delivery overcomes much of that. Their fast-banter style has helped their act transcend time quite well. So has this Columbia disc, recorded in 1912 when they reunited after a long feud - the surface is quite
clean on this example, making it possible to keep the voices intelligible while scaling the noise back.
