History AudioPlay / StanFrebergPresentsTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica

* AndStarring: Freberg performs along with other actors, including Creaor/PaulFrees, Creator/JuneForay, and Jesse White.

* AndStarring: Freberg performs along with other actors, most famously Creator/JuneForay.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Charlie and his companion are the cause of numerous catastrophes from the minor (making the wrong bird at the first Thanksgiving) to the major (sinking the ''[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Lusitania]]'').

* ThoseTwoGuys: Charlie and his companion are the cause of numerous catastrophes from the minor (making the wrong bird at the first Thanksgiving) to the major (sinking the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Lusitania]]).

* WaxingLyrical:

--> '''Columbus:''' ''We going out on that joke?''
--> '''Indian:''' ''No, we do reprise of song, that help.''
--> '''Together, sadly:''' ''But not much, no.''

** Tyne Daly actually got cast for Volume Two by leaning over to StanFreberg during the Grammy awards the preceding year and muttering "Rumble, rumble, rumble."

'''Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America''' is ([[WordOfGod currently]]) a two volume themed comedy album by comedian Creator/StanFreberg which presents the history of [[{{Eagleland}} the United States of America]] as a series of comedy sketches, from the first voyage of Christopher Columbus up through UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* CrazyEnoughToWork: Charlie' [[NoNameGiven companion]]'s CatchPhrase: "It's just ''wild'' enough, Charlie, it's just ''wild'' enough."

While Freberg promised in the liner notes of Volume Two that the third volume wouldn't take another thirty-five years to release (for one thing, he [[AuthorExistenceFailure didn't think he'd be around that long]]), due to the death of his wife and his own health issues, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the project has been shelved]], possibly permanently.

# Overture
# "Columbus Discovers America: It's a Round, Round World"
# "Pilgrim's Progress: Take an Indian to Lunch"
# "Thanksgiving Story (Under the Double Turkey)"
# "Sale of Manhattan: Top Hat, White Feather, and Tails"
# "Boston Tea Party"
# "Declaration of Independence: A Man Can't Be Too Careful What He Signs These Days"
# "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" [not on original LP]
# "Betsy Ross and the Flag: Everybody Wants to Be an Art Director" [slightly longer version than original LP]
# "Discovery of Electricity" [not on original LP]
# "Washington Crosses the Delaware (Command Decision)"
# "Yankee Doodle Go Home (Spirit of '76)"
# "Battle of Yorktown"
# Finale: "So Long, Friend"

!! Tropes, tropes, tropes (Mutiny, mutiny, mutiny)

--> '''Columbus:''' We going out on that joke?
--> '''Indian:''' No, we do reprise of song, that help.
--> '''Together, sadly:''' But not much, no.

The first volume (entitled ''Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Volume One - The Early Years]]) was released in 1961, with a second volume planned for the country's bicentennial in 1976, but [[DevelopmentHell did not come out until 1996]], twenty years after the planned release.

-> '':Rumble, rumble, rumble.]]Mutiny, mutiny, mutiny.''

''Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America'' is ([[WordOfGod currently]]) a two volume themed comedy album by comedian Creator/StanFreberg which presents the history of [[{{Eagleland}} the United States of America]] as a series of comedy sketches, from the first voyage of Christopher Columbus up through UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

[[labelnote:Rumble, rumble, rumble.]]Mutiny, mutiny, mutiny.[[/labelnote]]

''Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America'' is ([[WordOfGod currently]]) a two volume themed comedy album which presents the history of [[{{Eagleland}} the United States of America]] as a series of comedy sketches, from the first voyage of Christopher Columbus up through UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

!!Tropes:

* {{Eagleland}}: '''Mixed Flavor'''

* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: While the main characters all being historical figures should make this trope not applicable, Queen Isabella refers to Christopher Columbus' "friend, Da Vinci," bringing this work right back in line with this trope.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Abraham Lincoln convinces Harriet Beecher Stowe to rewrite ''UncleTomsCabin'' in a much darker tone than she'd originally intended. The new version is blamed for the American Civil War.

* RuleOfFunny: Everything. To wit: Why is Norman Rockwell in the American Revolution? Why are the same two guys responsible for multiple events in world history? Why would there be a General named [[PunnyName Electric]] interested in the first light bulb? RuleOfFunny.

-->As you listen to this album you'll soon begin to understand why StanFreberg flunked American history in high school.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: '''''Very''''' loosely. Norman Rockwell wasn't alive during the American Revolution.

* TheOtherDarrin: Corey Burton took over for the deceased Creator/PaulFrees as the narrator for Volume 2.

* TemptingFate: Both the American Civil War and WorldWarI end with the song "There'll Never Be Another War."

* ThoseTwoGuys: Charlie and his companion are the cause of numerous catastrophes from the minor (making the wrong bird at the first Thanksgiving) to the major (sinking the [[WorldWarI Lusitania]]).
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: '''''Very''''' loosely. I'm pretty sure Norman Rockwell wasn't alive during the American Revolution.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Despite a wide fanbase, some of whom are producers (Stephen Spielberg), actors (Richard Dreyfuss and John Goodman), musicians (Paul [=McCartney=]), or even Broadway singers (Tyne Daly), ''Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America'' has yet to hit Broadway.

->'''Announcer:''' [[AC:StanFreberg [[SelfDeprecation modestly presents]] ''The United States of America!'']]

While [[StanFreberg Freberg]] promised in the liner notes of Volume Two that the third volume wouldn't take another thirty-five years to release (for one thing, he [[AuthorExistenceFailure didn't think he'd be around that long]]), due to the death of his wife and his own health issues, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the project has been shelved]], possibly permanently.

* [[HeyItsThatVoice Hey, It's That]] [[strike:[[HeyItsThatVoice Voice]]]] [[HeyItsThatVoice CAST]] (especially in Volume Two):
** Volume One:
*** Creator/JuneForay
*** [[WesternAnimation/TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat Peter]] [[WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey Leeds]]
*** [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Shep Menken]]
** Volume Two:
*** [[{{Roseanne}} John Goodman]]
*** [[{{Gypsy}} Tyne Daly]]
*** [[TheJeffersons Sherman Hemsley]]
*** [[Series/{{MASH}} David]] [[Disney/{{Pocahontas}} Ogden]] [[Franchise/PerryMason Stiers]]
*** [[WesternAnimation/{{Garfield}} Lorenzo Music]]
*** Creator/HarryShearer
*** Creator/CoreyBurton

* YouHaveToHaveJews: When [[BigApplesauce Manhattan Island]] was as-yet undeveloped, populated by nothing but natives, Chief White Cloud's wife is ''very'' stereotypically jewish.

-->"What was that?'
-->"French Horns"

''Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America'' is ([[WordOfGod currently]]) a two volume themed comedy album which presents the history of [[[=EagleLand=] the United States of America]] as a series of comedy sketches, from the first voyage of Christopher Columbus up through UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* [=Eagleland=]: '''Mixed Flavor'''

->'''Announcer:''' [[AC:StanFreberg [[TakeThatMe modestly presents]] ''The United States of America!'']]

''Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America'' is ([[WordOfGod currently]]) a two volume themed comedy album which presents the history of [[EagleLand the United States of America]] as a series of comedy sketches, from the first voyage of Christopher Columbus up through WorldWarI.

* {{Eagleland}}: '''Mixed Flavor'''

* TheOtherDarrin: Corey Burton took over for the deceased Paul Frees as the narrator for Volume 2.

*** [[Series/{{MASH}} David]] [[Disney/{{Pocahontas}} Ogden]] [[PerryMason Stiers]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Despite a wide fanbase, some of whom are producers (Stephen Spielberg), actors (Richard Dreyfuss and John Goodman), musicians (Paul [=McCartney=]), or even Broadway singers (Tyne Daly), ''StanFrebergPresentsTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica'' has yet to hit Broadway.

[[hottip:Rumble, rumble, rumble.:Mutiny, mutiny, mutiny.]]