Breaks It Up - LP 1472 from the collection of Black Artists Archive

Moms Mabley
Breaks It Up - LP 1472, 1962
12" LP
Inv: 2025.1.074.1

The comedy album Breaks It Up by comedian Moms Mabley. The album was recorded live at the Tivoli Theater, Chicago Illinois and was released in 1962 by Chess Records. The album cover features two photographs of Mabley on a construction site. The top picture shows Mabley holding a sludge hammer. The bottom picture shows her sitting in a yellow tractor. In both photos she is wearing a white hat and, blue, pink and white dress, and a blue sweater.

Cover: Don Bronstein
Engineer: Ron Malo
Supervision: Ralph Bass

Collections: The Black Canon Music

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