Toledo Window Box

Toledo Window Box is the sixth album released by comedian George Carlin, and the fourth on the Little David label (distributed by Warner Bros. Records in this one instance; Carlin's other Little David albums were released by Warner Communications' Atlantic Records label). It was recorded on July 20, 1974 at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California, and released in November of that year. It was also included as part of the 1999 The Little David Years box set.

Toledo Window Box is a type of marijuana that Carlin said that a man once offered him - an antithesis to pot names like "Acapulco Gold" and "Colombian Red". This was Carlin's fourth and final gold album.

The front cover features Carlin wearing a white T-shirt with a planter growing marijuana plants, pointing his thumbs back at it, while the back cover shows Carlin wearing almost the same shirt but with the plants gone, while standing there red-eyed and looking "high". The illustration on the t-shirt was done by Drew Struzan, who went on to become a notable illustrator of album covers and movie posters.^[1] The version of the album in The Little David Years boxset includes a slip to put the CD in, which shows a picture of a burning joint.

Der Albumtitel bezieht sich auf einen Bericht, den Carlin gelesen hatte. Darin hieß es, der Polizeichef von Toledo, Ohio, habe sich eine Vorführung von „Reefer Madness“ und eine Schulung des FBI angesehen. Anschließend habe er gesagt: „Man kann in einem durchschnittlichen Blumenkasten genug Marihuana anbauen, um die gesamte Bevölkerung von Toledo in den Wahnsinn zu treiben.“ Carlin erklärte daraufhin, er wolle auch so einen Blumenkasten haben.

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