The Bulge

by Various Artists

Jenny 'B' has performed internationally for European and Asian audiences, and her sexy yet tasteful rendition of 'The Bulge' is a highlight of this album. Other artists include The Superbs, Ronnie Cook and the Jades. A unique label featuring the comedy stylings ofartists famous from radio and television -- including Hudson and Landry, Victor Buono, Jim Backus, Joey Reynolds, Lew Bedell -- mixed with classic R & B acts. Novelty A unique label featuring the comedy stylings of several artists famous from radio and television -- including Hudson and Landry, Victor Buono, Jim Backus, Joey Reynolds, Lew Bedell -- mixed with classic R & B acts like Rita and Tiaras, The Superbs, The Entertainers IV, Starbright, Kenard, The Debonnairs, Ray 'Ace' Acevendo, Fridays Child, The Jades, and Jenny B. Classic entertainment at it's best! WHO THE HELL IS LEW BEDELL? Creator of Dore Records Lew Bedell (the founder of Dore Records) was born in Texas. At the age of four his family moved to Los Angeles, but he found 'em anyway. His Father was a 'heavy' drinker (carrying home a case of Scotch every other night). That's 'heavy,' man! When his Father died he was cremated, according to his wishes. With all that alcohol in him, to this day he is known to all as 'The Enternal Flame.' The only important thing that happened to Lew between the ages of four and fifteen is that he lost his virginity when he was eleven to a thirteen year old girl named Cookie. He felt very important about it because he was the only one she didn't charge for. At sixteen he attended Los Angeles City College. What he remembers there most vividly is playing basketball and winning the customary 'malt' as the best player in the game against Long Beach City College. After two years at L.A.C.C. he matriculated at Santa Barbara State College (although he claims he never matriculated in his life.) He became imbued by the College scene, and in particular in the art curriculum, especially in comedy, after many fellow students told him how humorous he was (one guy). Santa Barbara State College was known for it's' yearly 'Road Runner Review,' a show exhibiting the talents of the current undergraduates. With Doug Mattson, a fellow student his future partner, he put on some very successful campus shows. From this amateur beginning they became the professional act 'Bedell & Mattson.' After completing his education at SBSC he was employed at North American Aviation and landed a job in the important Tooling Department. Within a year he had 500 people working under him. (He worked on the second floor of course). The Bedell & Mattson team started their professional career at 'Joe Dimaggio's' on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Booking for four weeks, they were held over for eight. Then, on to Reno's CalNeva Lodge, booked in for two weeks, but held over for four. Then on to Las Vega' El Corentez Hotel where they were a riot, performing to standing room only crowds. After Las Vegas the team went on to the Stateline Country Club in Lake Tahoe, where they were held over and over and over, for the entire season (twelve weeks...having gone from a starting salary at Dimaggio's of $250 a week to $1750.00 a week at Lake Tahoe (a phenomenal escalation for an act at that time that had been in show business for only six months. The next five years Lew and Doug played some of the major night clubs in the country; The Latin Quarter in New York (owned by Barbara Walters' Father), Jackie Heller's Carousel in Pittsburgh, Boston's Latin Quarter, the Cairo Hotel and the Capitol Theatre in Washington, D.C. and others, before returning to Nevada for twenty weeks a year. At that point in time Bedell was offered his own comedy TV show on KTLA, Hollywood, on which he starred for 39 weeks, at which point WOR-TV, New York, lured him back into the big city for a 5-day week, four month stint with 'The Lew Bedell Show,' a comedy variety show. It was cut short because of a tragic death of a loved one in Los Angeles. As circumstances developed he informed WOR-TV that he could not return at that time. Lew and a cousin, He