George Foster

The comedy writing and production team of Bob Booker and George Foster rode high during the comedy record craze of the mid-'60s and early '70s . During this distinctly laughable period in the music business, yucks were big bucks. Fast-selling discs by artists such as Allan Sherman were stacked in shops as high as boxes of matzo at Passover. The simile is dry, tasty, and appropriate when it comes to Booker & Foster as a great deal of their material was considered Jewish comedy. Not every performer that was involved in these recordings was Jewish; the hilarious Valerie Harper,...