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Dave Gardner Vinyl Record Albums

David Gardner (June 11, 1926 - September 22, 1983), known as Brother Dave Gardner, was a U.S. comedian, professional drummer and singer. A Tennessee native, Gardner studied drumming, beginning at age 13. After a one-semester term as a Southern Baptist ministerial student at Union University in his hometown of Jackson, Tennessee, he began a musical career as a drummer and occasional vocalist. After a pair of demo singles for Decca Records around 1956, he had a 1958 Top-20 hit on OJ Records with White Silver Sands. It was his comedic routines between songs, however, that brought him to the attention of RCA Records artist & producer Chet Atkins. The eventual result was a comedy album interspersed with a couple of songs - Rejoice, Dear Hearts! (1959), which propelled Brother Dave into the national eye, along with the first of several appearances on national television talk/variety shows such as The Tonight Show. An arrest for marijuana possession in 1962 curtailed his visibility on television. Then, it seemed, changing public tastes (i.e., the falling out-of-favor of 'beatnik'-style comedy), coupled with Gardner's holding onto his same performing style, resulted in a similar fading of his recording career. After six albums for RCA Victor Records, he made two for Capitol Records, and then others for lesser labels. He had another legal problem over tax-evasion charges in the 1970s, which his son helped clear up. Brother Dave had a role as a Southern preacher in the 1978 made-for-TV film Big Bob Johnson's Fantastic Speed Circus. He was cast in a B-grade movie, and was just beginning work on it at the time of his death. Gardner was twice married: his first wife, Millie, preceded him in death, and he was married to his second wife, Judy, at the time of his death. He had two children from his first marriage—son Dave II (deceased, 1999) and daughter Candace Gardner Hare, married to Stan Hare and has two sons Jason & Alan Hare, the grandsons of Brother Dave Gardner and two great-grandsons Eelan & Aaron Hare fathered by Jason Hare.

 

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LP
Hip-Ocrocy
Dave Gardner
Hip-Ocrocy
1966
T-5050
Tower Records Label; Album cover and record appear new; Original first US pressing; Mono recording; Track listing: Hip-Ocrocy (Part I); Hip-Ocrocy (Part II)
NM-/NM-
$19.99
LP
Hip-Ocrocy
Dave Gardner
Hip-Ocrocy
1966
T-5050
Tower Records Label; Album cover and record appear new; Original first US pressing; Mono recording; Track listing: Hip-Ocrocy (Part I); Hip-Ocrocy (Part II)
VG+/VG+
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LP
It's All In How You Look At ''It''
Dave Gardner
It's All In How You Look At ''It''
1964
T 2055
Tower Records Label; Album cover and record appear new; Original first US pressing; Mono recording; Includes the original inner liner sleeve; Track listing: Dave Gardner Part 1; Dave Gardner Part 2
NM-/NM-
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