What was the title of George Carlin’s 1967 debut comedy album?

George Carlin’s 1967 debut comedy album was titled Take-Offs and Put-Ons.

The album arrived during Carlin’s early career, when his material was strongly associated with conventional nightclub comedy, character voices, impressions, and observations. It predates the more politically confrontational and linguistically experimental style that later made him famous.

Carlin’s later albums include FM & AM, which won the 1972 Grammy for Best Comedy Recording, and Class Clown, released the same year. Class Clown included the routine that developed into his famous discussion of words unsuitable for broadcast television.

Take-Offs and Put-Ons is therefore easy to confuse with those later titles. The album marks the beginning of Carlin’s recorded comedy career, while his later work helped establish him as one of the most influential American stand-up performers of the twentieth century.