And Now, The Album That Asks The Question:

1 Joining The Cult 2:53
(A. Sandler/A. Covert)
Performed by Adam and Allen

2 Respect 4:35
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg/T. Herlihy/F. Coraci)
Performed by Adam, Allen, Frank, Jon and Tim

3 Ode To My Car 3:55
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Giarraputo)
Performed by Adam
Background vocals: Maxine Waters, Julia Waters, Carmen Twillie

4 The Excited Southerner Orders A Meal :45
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg)
Performed by Adam and Jon

5 The Goat 8:52
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg)
Performed by Adam, Bean, John and Jon

6 The Chanukah Song 3:44 - Real Audio - Wav - Aif
(A. Sandler/L. Morton/I. Maxstone-Graham)
Performed by Adam

7 The Excited Southerner Gets Pulled Over 1:04
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg)
Performed by Adam and Judd

8 The Hypnotist 8:03 - Wav - Aif
(A. Sandler/K. Nealon)
Performed by Adam and Kevin

9 Steve Polychronopolous 3:11 - Wav - Aif
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg/J. Apatow/F. Coraci)
Performed by Adam

10 The Excited Southerner At A Job Interview 1:11
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg)
Performed by Adam and Allen

11 Do It For Your Mama 5:24
(A. Sandler)
Performed by Adam, Frank, Judd, Jon, Katie and Brooks

12 Crazy Love 3:57
(A. Sandler/J. Rosenberg)
Duet with Adam featuring Lisa Mordente

13 The Excited Southerner Meets Mel Gibson 1:09
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg)
Performed by Adam and Frank

14 The Adventures Of The Cow 5:05
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg)
Performed by Adam, Frank and Randi

15 Dip Doodle 3:48
(A. Sandler/A. Covert)
Performed by Adam

16 The Excited Southerner Proposes To A Woman 1:03
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg)
Performed by Adam and Tara

17 Memory Lane 2:43
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg)
Performed by Adam, Frank, Judd and Allen

18 Mr. Bake-O 4:06
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/J. Rosenberg/T. Herlihy/J. Giarraputo)
Performed by Adam

19 Sex Or Weight Lifting 7:06
(A. Sandler)
Performed by Adam, Allen, Jon, Bean, Katie, Tara, Ellen, Reggie, Frank and Judd

20 What The Hell Happened To Me? 2:26
(A. Sandler/A. Covert/V. Gervickas)
Performed by Adam



-- Adam Sandler--Saturday Night Live MVP, movie star and all-around swell guy--follows the success of his debut album, They're All Gonna Laugh At You, with a collection of sketches and songs that's even more uproariously funny than the first one.

-- Working once again with producer Brooks Arthur, Adam has created a new series of outlandish skits that draws on the talents of SNL alums like Kevin Nealon and Rob Schneider, as well as a couple of other big names.

The album is dedicated to Mollie Levine, Anna Sandler and Helen Veltri.

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"I saw the most incredible show Wednesday night at UCSB," the inter-office memo from Media Relations' Melenie Caldwell began. . ."

"Completely sold out." "When he walked out on stage the kids went absolutely wild." "Girls were throwing themselves at him." "There was such a roar you could have sworn you were at a heavy metal concert." On and on and on.


The whammy, of course, is that these praises were being sung not about our latest chart-burner, but about Adam Sandler--actor, comedian, songwriter, musician and softspoken swell-guy, who, at least in part, has made his own mark singing the praises of things like turkeys, red sweatshirts and Chanukah. The fact that he's been allowed to do this on television (as a former cast member of Saturday Night Live), on record (the near-PlatinumWarner debut They're All Gonna Laugh At You) and on stage (with a thousand screaming party kids singing along) is just more grist for the Adam Sandler mill.

Which brings us back to that first record. As theoretically "unplayable" as it was (among other things, it contained the longest-ever recorded bathroom leak, plus at least one indecent reference to a shampoo bottle), the album still managed to find its way into the grateful embrace of close to a million consumers, as well as spend more than 100 weeks on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

Now, Warner Bros. Records is proud to release Adam Sandler's follow-up album, What The Hell Happened To Me?, which is--how shall we put it?--every inch as scatologically "correct" as its predecessor.


A collection of 13 sketches and seven songs, the album includes such musical pleasures as the runaway radio hit "The Chanukah Song" ("Put on your yarmulke/Here comes Chanukah"), the heartfelt "Ode To My Car" ("What the **ck did I do/To get stuck with you"), the delightfully naive "Steve Polychronopolous" ("I'll piss on your toilet seat and tell your dad you got stoned") and the visionary "Mr. Bake-o" ("I'm sittin' in my chair watchin' the TV/It's not even on but there's plenty for me to see").

Our favorite, though, is the track most likely to find its way into every locker room in America, the fanciful "Dip Doodle" ("Jabawokee ding dong/Slip slap slee/Dipstick paddywhack/Pee pee googalee gee").

"This is Adam at his finest," chortles Sandler's co-producer, Brooks Arthur, who also produced Sandler's debut. A veteran of the boards for such musical artists as Van Morrison, Liza Minelli, Bette Midler and the late Marvin Gaye, Brooks suddenly found himself producing comedy icons Robin Williams and Jackie Mason, and wound up with an introduction to Sandler via former WBR CEO Mo Ostin.

"I act as sort of his film director in the studio," Arthur relates. "He's got some ideas, and I help him edit them before we record. We do lots of takes, and then we spend hours editing--sculpting--those takes into one.

"Sculpt" is a word the producer frequently uses in describing what goes into recording an Adam Sandler album.

So, how does a guy who sings "Now I just do whatever I want/I even whipped it out in a restaurant" comport himself in the studio?

"He's very discerning about the songs he chooses," says Arthur, "and we're both very careful about preparation. We have never come in winging a situation. You can't book all these big-time musicians and just lay down a track and think you're going to get a lyric later on. You have to have a song."

Occasionally, though, Sandler will have the broad-stroke idea that needs to be fleshed out in the flesh. On "The Hypnotist," for instance, a sketch that Sandler performs with fellow SNL alum Kevin Nealon, all he had, initially, was the concept.

"We set up two separate mikes and did 'The Hypnotist' half a dozen times," explains Arthur, "improvising as we went. Then we took those takes into the editing room. We had our script supervisor type out all the takes, then we'd listen to them and select what we wanted. Afterward, we added sound effects. It was like a film crew. We had a sound-effects editor and a dialog editor."


Other guests on What The Hell Happened To Me? include Frank Coraci, Jon Rosenberg, Judd Apatow, Allen Covert, Tim Herlihy, Ellen Cleghorne and Lisa Mordente, among others.

"What I love about Adam is that he rolls up his sleeves and he works," says Arthur. "He's intense, and he's very focused. My recollection of both albums is that, even though he was doing a movie each time, he'd always take time to babysit the album with me. By the way, he's a fine musician, a wonderful singer."

For real?

"He's a wonderful singer," maintains Arthur. "That's why I love working with him. He can sing the heck out a song. The other day he sang me 'If I Loved You,' from Carousel. John Raitt would have been proud.

But back to Melenie's memo. It concludes: "When he did his last number and walked off stage, the kids went insane, screaming at the top of their lungs. He had to come back and do four more songs. When I left the auditorium, I felt as though I had just seen The Edgar Winter Band in 1973. I couldn't hear for shit."