The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!

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{{Infobox album

| name = The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back

| type = live

| artist = Bob Newhart

| cover = BNewhart_StrikesBack.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1960

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| genre = Stand-up comedy

| length = 36:20

| label = Warner Bros.

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| prev_title = The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart

| prev_year = 1960

| next_title = Behind the Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart

| next_year = 1961

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-button-down-mind-strikes-back-mw0000036311|title=AllMusic Review by Sean Carruthers|website=AllMusic|access-date=February 10, 2020}}

| rev2 = New Record Mirror

| rev2Score = 5/5{{Cite magazine |last=Watson |first=Jimmy |date=May 6, 1961 |title=Bob Newhart: The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/61/Record-Mirror-1961-05-06.pdf |magazine=New Record Mirror |issue=8 |page=10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401224304/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/61/Record-Mirror-1961-05-06.pdf |archive-date=April 1, 2022 |access-date=August 5, 2022}}

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The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back is a 1960 stand-up comedy album by Bob Newhart. Released soon after Newhart's top-selling debut The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, the sequel album reached No. 1 on the Billboard Monophonic Action Albums chart on January 9, 1961.{{cite news |title=Action Albums |work=Billboard Music Week |date=January 9, 1961 |page=16}} The two albums would occupy the top two positions on the chart for almost 30 weeks.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/an-appreciation-of-the-button-down-mind-of-bob-newhart.html|title=An Appreciation of the Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart|last=Ess|first=Ramsey|date=March 15, 2018|website=Vulture|language=en-us|access-date=February 10, 2020}} Propelled by the success of Newhart's first album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back had sold 150,000 advance copies at the time of its release.{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Cecil|title=It's Club Patrons Who Unbutton Lips|date=October 30, 1960|work=The Los Angeles Times|volume=Calendar|page=10}}

The album's tracks were recorded at the hungry i in San Francisco and Freddie's in Minneapolis.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rhino.com/aod/the-button-down-mind-strikes-back-bob-newhart|title=The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back{{!}} Rhino|website=www.rhino.com|access-date=February 10, 2020}}