![]() ![]() It’s a 12-bar song that consists of unique short. As Magic Dick says, this song happened to be a combination of his influences: Sonny Boy, Little Walter and James Cotton. Geils Band partners up with award-winning guitar and vocal sensation, Shun Ng for their debut release, 'About Time'. Has anybody here seen my friend Moe Howard? Can you tell me where he went? He threw a lot of pies and he poked them in the eyes. A song by Magic Dick and J Geils band, the idea for which appeared in 1971 as a harmonica instrumental for a band that later was recorded during a live show. Check out Magic Dick & Shun Ng's new arrangement of the classic 'Whammer Jammer' JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Never miss an update Subscribe Now Magic Dick, the legendary harmonica player for The J. The book may (or may not) also offer these modified lyrics (to the tune of Dion's inspirational 1968 hit song, "Abraham, Martin & John"): No less memorable is the chapter entitled "Moe's Greatest Threats," which includes a timeless tidbit, guaranteed to enliven any party or social gathering: "Mingle or I'll mangle." One of our favorite lines in it is: "In all the world, perhaps only Lyndon Johnson could understand how lonely a place Shemp and Pope Paul VI occupied." Happily, we just happen to have a copy of the book. That "information" consists of more than 15 inches of blank space. The review of the pseudo-scholarly "Moe Haircuts" on the website for Publisher's Weekly reads: We don't currently have a review of this title, but here is all the information we do have about it. It examines the possible influence of the Stooges on, among others, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, The Beatles, former President Richard Nixon and (hey, why not?) poetry and Cubism. BEST 'Whammer Jammer' Magic Dick on Harmonica Jenipher Sutherland 449 subscribers Subscribe 643K views 15 years ago Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue at Knuckleheads in Kansas City on February 8. That was one of many theories posited by now-former Musician magazine editor Bill Flanagan in his sadly overlooked book, "Last of the Moe Haircuts: The Influence of The Three Stooges on 20th Century Culture" (Contemporary Books, 1986). ![]() Speaking of Moe, did the head Stooge later influence the famous mop-top hairstyle popularized by The Beatles in the early and mid 1960s? ![]() It includes a segment from the late 1930s short "Swingin' the Alphabet," which at one point features Moe "playing" a banana peel. More learned Stooges fans may recognize some, or all, of the footage Jennings uses. ![]()
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