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Monday, January 28, 2013
All of Frank Fontaine's album covers
all of the album covers of Frank Fontaine, aka Crazy Guggenheim
That's what's missing from McKimson's RABBIT'S KIN---a scene where Pete Puma sings like an angel, in-between braining himself with a mallet. ("A whole LOTTA lumps!") In drag, of course!
It wasn't until I got to hear DUFFY'S TAVERN that I realized where Jackie Gleason's "Joe the Bartender" and "Crazy Guggenheim" skits came from. They're variations of "Archie" (Ed Gardner) and "Finnegan," (Charlie Cantor). Cantor's archetypal "moron" voice ("Duh...") has been imitated so many times, it's practically a comedy icon. As far as I know, DUFFY'S TAVERN originated that characterization. "Mr Dennehy," like "Duffy," is a character who's constantly addressed, but never seen or heard. He's always on the other end of the phone. ("Archie speakin', Duffy ain't here. Oh, hiya Duffy...")
DUFFY'S TAVERN, an influential and unjustly forgotten radio show, also inspired a ton of cartoons: Baby Huey, Tex Avery's George & Junior, Herman & Katnip, Snooper & Blabber, etc. Weird how classic, Golden Age pop-culture is slipping down the memory hole now. I had to connect the dots myself, to rediscover factoids that probably used to be common knowledge.
Hello, Mister Dennehy!
ReplyDeleteFontaine was kind of in the Jim Nabors camp where the goofball opens his mouth and sings like an angel.
Sort of a forerunner to Susan Boyle.
DeleteThat's what's missing from McKimson's RABBIT'S KIN---a scene where Pete Puma sings like an angel, in-between braining himself with a mallet. ("A whole LOTTA lumps!") In drag, of course!
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't until I got to hear DUFFY'S TAVERN that I realized where Jackie Gleason's "Joe the Bartender" and "Crazy Guggenheim" skits came from. They're variations of "Archie" (Ed Gardner) and "Finnegan," (Charlie Cantor). Cantor's archetypal "moron" voice ("Duh...") has been imitated so many times, it's practically a comedy icon. As far as I know, DUFFY'S TAVERN originated that characterization. "Mr Dennehy," like "Duffy," is a character who's constantly addressed, but never seen or heard. He's always on the other end of the phone. ("Archie speakin', Duffy ain't here. Oh, hiya Duffy...")
DUFFY'S TAVERN, an influential and unjustly forgotten radio show, also inspired a ton of cartoons: Baby Huey, Tex Avery's George & Junior, Herman & Katnip, Snooper & Blabber, etc. Weird how classic, Golden Age pop-culture is slipping down the memory hole now. I had to connect the dots myself, to rediscover factoids that probably used to be common knowledge.