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General Boards => Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Signor Spumoni on October 30, 2013, 10:16:59 PM
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Is there a discussion thread, old or new, about the references to popular music in Stooges' shorts? I always enjoy it when I hear these joking references, such as when I saw "Booby Dupes" today and heard a roundabout reference to a popular song, "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet." Somehow I never noticed that before today.
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Is there a discussion thread, old or new, about the references to popular music in Stooges' shorts? I always enjoy it when I hear these joking references, such as when I saw "Booby Dupes" today and heard a roundabout reference to a popular song, "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet." Somehow I never noticed that before today.
At the 1:30 mark, "Hey Fishmen!" -- "Keep those records quiet."
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Exactly right, Paul Allen! :) Are you a music lover, too?
There are so many more, if anyone's interested.
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Exactly right, Paul Allen! :) Are you a music lover, too?
My love for music really only goes back as far as the mid-1950's, but it's fun for me to learn of anything associated with the Stooges.
I'm interested in knowing what other songs you have in mind that the 3 Stooges made reference to.
Thanks, Signor Spumoni !
Paul Allen
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Hello, Paul Allen - - My apologies for taking so long to get back with another. It's a combination of being busy and other things which forces me to lead a productive life instead of being a Stooge-a-holic, as I'd like. :D
Here's one for you. It's from "All Gummed Up," at the 6:02 mark, spoken by Larry. I don't know how to embed the video the way you did, so here's the link.
It's the way Larry says the line that gave me the song link; I'm embarrassed to admit it took years for me to figure out which song it was.
In case you get busy, too, let me wish you a happy Thanksgiving!
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I've done some searching, but haven't come up with the song title, yet.
6:02 mark...
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I've done some searching, but haven't come up with the song title, yet.
Also referenced here, at about 5:19:
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Right you are, ThumpTheShoes! I didn't know it was in that Joe Besser short, too. I don't watch the Joes.
BTW, I like your signature - - I always crack up when the Stooges throw in some Yiddish.
I'll have another reference soon. Actually I have one right now from "What's the Matador," but it seems that portion is available only if one pays to see it, and I'm too cheap for that.
I thought of another one. This is from "Some More of Samoa." It's at the 4:09 - 4:10 mark here:
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Right you are, ThumpTheShoes! I didn't know it was in that Joe Besser short, too. I don't watch the Joes.
Makes me wonder why Larry didn't say. "Lay that pestle down, man!", instead of "Put that pestle down, man!" ?
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I thought of another one. This is from "Some More of Samoa." It's at the 4:09 - 4:10 mark here:
At the 4:09 mark . . .
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And who could forget (or forget to remember?) this little gem at 4:28? (You'll need to jump to Youtube to watch):
Give up? Title given away here at 9:49:
And the original song is on.. you guess it! Youtube!!
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Full marks to you, Paul Allen!
As an aside, one of Desi Arnaz' many hits, with his orchestra, was a song about how he'd rather hear the rhumba (than swing). I wish I could recall the title. Anyway, one line in the lyrics says, "Don't beat me, daddy, with an eight foot bar." :laugh:
I, too, wondered why Larry didn't say, "*Lay* that pestle down, man." According to Moe, Larry seldom rehearsed, so maybe he made a mistake on that one.
ThumpTheShoes, you gave us a good one. I never knew The Monkees referenced "Flat-Foot Floogie," but I've not watched them since they were on originally. Do you know what a floogie was, and why a floogie's feet were flat? I'm sure you do, but if not, I'll tell you.
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I have a new song reference which is also a movie reference. This is an easy one, and it's the title of a short: "Vagabond Loafers."
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That Lay That Pistol Down Babe song is also in the Shemp solo short "Strange Affair". It starts at the 01:10:34 mark. I couldn't find it on Youtube.
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Thank you, JazzBill. That's interesting. Aside from a minute or so of Shemp's appearance in "Pittsburgh," I've not seen any of the Stooges' solo work - - oh, I do remember seeing Joe Besser as Stinky in Abbott and Costello's show.
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If you don't mind going all the way back to Booby Dupes, Curly misquotes the title ( he calls it "Don't Chop the Wood, Mother, Father's coming Home With a Load"), but there's legitimately a tune recorded by Bob Crosby and the Bobcats called " Here Comes Your Pappy With the Wrong Kind of Load ".
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Also, I forget the episode, but at some point Moe has got Curly's ear in a pair of scissors, and Curly yells " I surrender, Dear, I surrender". The "dear " is rather inexplicable unless you realize that " I Surrender Dear " was a big hit for Bing Crosby around that time.
Also, the exchange "I'll take LaMarr" "I'll take Lamour" "I'll take LaZonga with six lessons" refers to the Jimmy Dorsey big-band hit " Six Lessons from Madame LaZonga ". That's in one of the Hitler spoofs, I forget which one.
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I just thought of another one: in Boobs In Arms, Richard Fiske says, at least twice, " Everything Happens to Me ". This is the title of a song that was popular right around then.