- Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology · 2001
- The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back · 1960
- Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology · 1960
- The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back · 1960
- The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back · 1960
- Behind the Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart · 1961
- Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology · 2001
- The Windmills Are Weakening · 1965
- The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back · 1960
- The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back · 1960
- The Button-Down Mind On TV · 1962
- Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology · 1960
- Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology · 1960
Essential Albums
- Released mere months after 1960’s gigantic The Button-Down Mind, this chart-topper opens with Newhart remembering his Army experience while making fun of machines taking human jobs—still timely decades later. From there he ponders monkeys typing Shakespeare and how all retirement speeches sound alike, turning surprisingly dark at the end of “Ledge Psychology.” “You should always tie things together,” he notes in his deceptively nebbish-like tone at one point, and somehow the man in the gray flannel suit manages to do just that.
Singles & EPs
- 1967
Compilations
About Bob Newhart
With the two highly successful, namesake television shows spanning generations, it's easy to forget the mild-mannered Bob Newhart initially made a name for himself as one of the most popular standups of the early 1960s. Nicknamed the "Button Down Mind," the soft-spoken comedian sold millions of LPs of his casually unfolding narratives, his slowly evolving stories punctured by observations made ever-the-more uproarious by his deadpan delivery. While Newhart's touring slowed down as he became a tv star, he never gave it up, continuing to record albums into the 21st Century.
- HOMETOWN
- Oak Park, IL, United States
- BORN
- September 5, 1929
- GENRE
- Comedy