Thanks for posting, never saw the Ed Sullivan clips. My Dad was Frank Marquis, the “leader of the gang”. Dad passed in 2009, at 89 years old, thankfully he got to see a couple of clips of himself, Uncle Johnny and the gang on the internet. So Happy to see they live on!
Loved this movie, The Singing Marine wit Larry Adler and Dick Powell singing Over The Sea Let's Go Men. My sister and I would tease our Dad by singing Over the hill let's go men. We're shoving right off, we're shoving right off again.
After I came home from the Army in '55 I began my career as a chemist in Bound Brook (American Cyanamid). Lou DeSantis, who had at one time been the lead harmonica player for Johnny, was working as a lab tech as he had retired from show biz when he started his family. I became close freinds with Lou and his wife Anne who had been a dancer with the Radio City Music Hall Corps de Ballet at the time and then taught private ballet lessons in their home. I think they actually met when they were both playing the Latin Quarter in NYC. I got to know their 3 children as they came into the world. Lou died in '93 I think, and Anne only a few years ago, 2018. Middle son passed and one son remains in the area (Manville, NJ) as a master cabinet maker. The daughter is out west in CA.
Took me a while to make the connection, but I've come to realize that these great musicans modeled their abusing act after a 1940 MGM Cartoon. If you've ever seen TOM TURKEY AND HIS HARMONICA HUMDINGERS, it's essentially the same act. The cartoon characters used harmonicas in that short and would be demonstrative towards a little fella, too!😂❤
the act actually predates that cartoon by nearly 10 years. The original Borrah Minevitch act dates back to the early 1930s, and Johnny was of course the star of the show. The cartoon just iterated on the then well-known harmonica slapstick act that Minevitch was publicizing at the time. These reels, are post Minevitch, when the group became the Harmonica Gang, under leadership of Puleo.
Do you know what that really long harmonica he is sliding up and down called? It sounds like a chromatic harmonica but each hole gets an individual hole rather than using a button
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Thanks for posting, never saw the Ed Sullivan clips. My Dad was Frank Marquis, the “leader of the gang”. Dad passed in 2009, at 89 years old, thankfully he got to see a couple of clips of himself, Uncle Johnny and the gang on the internet. So Happy to see they live on!
HE WAS CERTAINLY A GREAT PLAYER. I AM 96 and LISTENED THAT RECORDING SINCE 50S...
Loved this movie, The Singing Marine wit Larry Adler and Dick Powell singing Over The Sea Let's Go Men. My sister and I would tease our Dad by singing Over the hill let's go men. We're shoving right off, we're shoving right off again.
Ha ha leuk om te horen en zien.
My wife is related to Johnny Puleo. We have a few of his mini harmonica necklaces. Neat piece of history to see.
I remember watching them as a kid. I just cracked up as much now as I did then.
They were wonderful and talented as hell.
I realized years ago that it was johnny that sparked my interest in the harmonica as a child though I didn't begin to play until I was almost 40.
Heerlijk is dat kleine ventje en ook leuk om te zien. En een goed mond muziek gr Lies.
Beautiful music.
After I came home from the Army in '55 I began my career as a chemist in Bound Brook (American Cyanamid). Lou DeSantis, who had at one time been the lead harmonica player for Johnny, was working as a lab tech as he had retired from show biz when he started his family. I became close freinds with Lou and his wife Anne who had been a dancer with the Radio City Music Hall Corps de Ballet at the time and then taught private ballet lessons in their home. I think they actually met when they were both playing the Latin Quarter in NYC.
I got to know their 3 children as they came into the world. Lou died in '93 I think, and Anne only a few years ago, 2018. Middle son passed and one son remains in the area (Manville, NJ) as a master cabinet maker. The daughter is out west in CA.
I think i remember then doing a short on a building site i wad just a kid now i am 70 but the memories are nice to have
I haven't seen them in years. Just found an album with them. My neighbor put them to the street.
Took me a while to make the connection, but I've come to realize that these great musicans modeled their abusing act after a 1940 MGM Cartoon. If you've ever seen TOM TURKEY AND HIS HARMONICA HUMDINGERS, it's essentially the same act. The cartoon characters used harmonicas in that short and would be demonstrative towards a little fella, too!😂❤
the act actually predates that cartoon by nearly 10 years. The original Borrah Minevitch act dates back to the early 1930s, and Johnny was of course the star of the show. The cartoon just iterated on the then well-known harmonica slapstick act that Minevitch was publicizing at the time. These reels, are post Minevitch, when the group became the Harmonica Gang, under leadership of Puleo.
Again some talent unlike todays rubbish
My dad played harmonica i am useless cant even get it out of the box
Do you know what that really long harmonica he is sliding up and down called? It sounds like a chromatic harmonica but each hole gets an individual hole rather than using a button
it is a Chromatica 261. No longer produced, but quite common in the 1930s - 1950s.
@@theharmonicaarchivist1630 thank you very much :D!
Funny to think of this show happening in the age of COVID-19. I’ve tried playing with a mask....nope.
Bite marks!
I don't like the slapstick after all they were not the 3 stooges when they weren't fooling around they were great .....
They were great. I think the comedy was produced at the same studeo where the 3 Stooges were produced.
How did they get away with this garbage ???
define "Garbage".
@@theharmonicaarchivist1630 I know...probably coming from someone who doesn't know a harmonica from a vaping pipe.