In 1969, audio excerpts of dialogue from all five of the Marx Brothers' Paramount films were collected and released on an LP album, "The Original Voice Tracks from Their Greatest Movies", by Decca Records. The excerpts were interspersed with voice-over introductions by disc jockey and voice actor Gary Owens. The album was praised by "Billboard" as "a program of zany antics"; the magazine highlighted the excerpts of Groucho, who was "way ahead of his time in spoofing the 'establishment', at his hilarious biting best with his film soundtrack one-line zingers on his love life, his son, politics, big business, society, etc.". "Village Voice" critic Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic, however, grading the LP a C-plus and recommending it only to fanatics of the comedy group. "This is the sort of record you buy out of duty and then never play, not because it's a comedy record but because it isn't funny out of context," wrote Christgau, while also expressing displeasure with the interspersing of small portions of "annoying music" and Owens's commentary throughout.