Jim Copp & Ed Brown: My Heroes.
Once upon a time, there were two very funny men, Ed Copp and Jim Brown , who did great voices, wrote wonderful stories and sang hilariously absurd songs. And together they created Playhouse Records. Around this time, there was also this odd, quirky young girl, growing up in Vermont without brothers or sisters, or any sense at all, really, who spent a great deal of time listening to these peculiar stories over, and over and over. For her, their theatrical characters and wonderfully dark tales all made her life seem normal and entirely understandable..So, what I'm trying to say is, that it's all Playhouse Record's fault that I am the way I am now. Without their humor and creativity my life would have been infinitely more diminished. CLICK HERE FOR THE NPR INTRODUCTION TO "WHO JIM COPP AND ED BROWN" The duo produced several funny, wacky, story records in the "mid century" years (for me, late sixties, early seventies) and then they "re