As a reply to Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia presentation of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, aka The Boys from Brooklyn (see March 22, 2026 post), I thought it only fitting to share Sammy Petrillo's classic, crank-call album, My Son, The Phone Caller, as featured on YouTube by Justin & Will of Film Trap.
Recorded in 1963, after Petrillo's Jerry Lewis emulative peak, the album serves heaps of goofy fun with improvised bits that went on to influence the Red/Tube Bar and Jerky Boys phone-prank compilations.
Listen in; you'll get more than a few hardy chuckles from Sammy's off-the-cuff ... er, off-the-receiver antics.
