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''In the Next World, You're on Your Own'' was the last Comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records . It was released in 1975 . TRACKS Side one #"Police Street" - 21:30 Side two #"We've Lost Our Big Kabloona" - 22:30 DETAILED TRACK INFORMATION AND COMMENTARY The first side of the album, "Police Street", features a group of sketches interconnected by the kind of police log that is typical of Austin's Detective writing (Austin being best known as the detective character Nick Danger ). The highlight sketch is "Give It Back," a mock Game Show in which losing contestants have to surrender their parents' material possessions to the Native Americans . The second side of the album, "We've Lost Our Big Kabloona", culminates in a Hostage situation at gunpoint occurring at the Academy Awards . In this sketch, the hostage-taker was the loser/winner of the "Give It Back" sketch on the first side of the album. This sketch was inspired by Sacheen Littlefeather 's appearance at the 1973 Academy Awards. ISSUES AND REISSUES This album was originally released simultaneously on LP and 8 Track.
It has been re-released on CD at least once
TRIVIA This album was the only commercial album during the group's Columbia Records period that was released under the group name but not crediting all four members as writers. The script is formally credited only to Phil Austin and David Ossman , although the other two members, Peter Bergman and Philip Proctor , honed their parts further during recording. The result, while highly polished as always, did not sell well, and the label declined to renew the group's contract. This album was recorded in the same Warner Brothers studio in Burbank where John Lennon and Harry Nilsson recorded " Pussy Cats ." (Also same engineer at the boards). EXTERNAL SOURCES
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