Lee,Katie Songs Of Couch & Consultation CD

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1957 nugget appearing here for the first time on CD alongside it's 1960 sequel, Life Is Just a Bed of Neuroses. Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away... The cults of psychoanalysis and psycho-babble were just a gleam in some twitching misfits eye. Here, those lucrative pseudo-sciences are lampooned to delirious effect. The teaming of Folk-Cabaret chanteuse Katie Lee with lyricist Bud Freeman and composer Leon Pober resulted in the 1957 swingin' satirical masterpiece Songs of Couch And Consultation. Numbers like 'Repressed Hostility Blues' and 'The Will to Fail' have, if anything, gained more traction in today's over-analyzed, over-medicated world. Is it Tom Lehrer with curves? the product of sick minds? the LP received rave notices and even spawned a sequel, 1960's Life Is Just a Bed of Neuroses. Both are presented here for the very first time on CD, in glorious remastered sound with exclusive liner notes, rare photos, ephemera and extra tracks. Remastered 2009 from the original master tapes! Omni.

1. Shrinker Man 2. The Will to Fail 3. The Guilty Rag 4. Stay As Sick As You Are 5. Hush Little Sibling 6. Real Sick Sounds 7. Repressed Hostility Blues 8. I Can't Get Adjusted to the You Who Got Adjusted to Me 9. Schizophrenic Moon 10. Properly Loved 11. Gunslinger, (A Ballad for Adult Westerns) 12. It Must Be Something Psychological 13. Life Is Just a Bed of Neuroses 14. Case History ('A' Loves 'B' Loves 'C') 15. Why Johnny Why 16. Love That Man 17. Mental Blocks 18. Be Miserable 19. The Ballad for Group Therapy 20. We Must Adjust 21. The Insecure Tango 22. Don'tville 23. When I Was a Little Girl 24. The Get Well March 25. My Mother Chose My Husband 26. Little Willie Found Some Dynamite) 27. Poor Miss Bailey 28. Little Willie and the Cat) 29. The House of the Rising Sun 30. Blow the Candles Out 31. Lotsa Money 32. Little Willie in the Well) 33. The Frozen Logger 34. Little Willies Sister Ruth) 35. Woman, Go Home