| Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | July 22, 1970 | |||
| Recorded | April and May 1970 | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 46:28 | |||
| Label | Columbia[1] | |||
| Producer | The Firesign Theatre with Bill Driml | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [2] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | A+[4] |
| The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide |   [5] |
| The New Rolling Stone Record Guide | [3] |
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers is the Firesign Theatre's third comedy album, released by Columbia Records in July 1970. In 1983, The New Rolling Stone Record Guide called it "the greatest comedy album ever made".[3] It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1971 by the World Science Fiction Society. In 2005, the US Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry and called the Firesign Theatre "the Beatles of comedy."
- ^ Discogs
- ^ Carruthers, Sean. "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers - Firesign Theatre". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- ^ a b Marsh, Dave; Marcus, Greil (1983). "The Firesign Theatre". The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. New York City: Random House. pp. 175–176.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^ Smith, Ronald L. The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide. Iola: Krause, 1996.