Cause and Effect

[MajGenl.Meade]

Well that image is! No, but Choplin's a Scott.

[Joe Guy]

And he created a lot of these...

[Lord Jim]

There are a lot of female singers who owe a great debt to Janice Choplin...(Including Patti Smith, Debbie Harry and many others)

She blazed the trail by making the whole "raunchy bad-girl with an attitude" genre commercially successful...

And she did it at a time when the most successful female vocalists were "classy" ladies like Petula Clark and Diana Ross...

[Gob]

There are a lot of female singers who owe a great debt to Janice Choplin...(Including Patti Smith, Debbie Harry and many others)

Ohh Janice Choplin! I thought you meant Led Choplin, the famous beat combo.

[Joe Guy]

No, Gob. I think you're thinking of Led Blimp with Jimmy Pager and Robert Houseplant.

[BoSoxGal]

[MajGenl.Meade]

... or Charlie Choplin, the famous mime

There are a lot of female singers who owe a great debt to Janice Choplin...(Including Patti Smith, Debbie Harry and many others

You mean.... Patty Smith, Debbie Curry, Tbone Turner, Lisa Marie Porkley, Shinbone O'Connor.... them shantooses>

[Gob]

... or Charlie Choplin, the famous mime

You're thinking of Charlie Chester...

[Joe Guy]

Or maybe Chester Field...

[Lord Jim]

Well gee whiz, here I am trying to give a serious tribute to one of the most important figures in the history of rock music, and you two have to muck it up with your Katzenjammer Kids* routine...

You guys are just the funniest thing since Olsen and Johnson**...











* points if without googling, you get the Katzenjammer Kids reference...


** Double points, (In fact triple points) if without googling you know who Olsen and Johnson were...

[Gob]

Well gee whiz, here I am trying to give a serious tribute to one of the most important figures in the history of rock music,

Which one?

[Lord Jim]

Lisa Marie Porkley

Sounds like an old girlfriend of yours...

[Gob]

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, headin' for the trains,
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans

I think I've fund Jim's link between the OP and Alice Chopin, do I win a prize?

[Joe Guy]

I think I've fund Jim's link between the OP and Alice Chopin, do I win a prize?

You've funded Jim's link?

Sounds kinky...

[Lord Jim]

I think I've fund Jim's link

You're welcome to fund me anytime...

(So long as you're funding me with Good Ol' American Dollars and not those funny-money Australian Pesos... )

[Sue U]

Ameros, Jim. Ameros.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Olsen and Johnson

Hellzapoppin'

and no I didn't google. One of the funniest films I ever saw (when I was 14). The inspiration for Mad, for the Goons, for ... well, every "wacky" comedy ever made.

What's my prize? A CD of Janis Choplin & Big Beefer and the Hole Ding Company?

[Lord Jim]

Olsen and Johnson

Hellzapoppin'

Well now I am impressed...

The only reason I know who Olsen and Johnson are is because back in my college days, I used to watch a show on PBS called Matinee At The Bijou:

Matinee at the Bijou was a television series that premiered nationally on PBS in 1980. It recreated the American moviegoing experiences of the 1930s and '40s, with trailers, a cartoon, one or more selected short subjects, a cliff-hanging serial chapter “to be continued,” and a tightly edited feature presentation. The 90-minute series ran for five consecutive first-run seasons, each consisting of 16 episodes, and continued on PBS for three subsequent years in reruns. The series was an independent production from Bijou Productions, Inc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matinee_at_the_Bijou

I liked it because I felt it gave me a chance to somewhat understand the "going to the movies" experience that my parents had enjoyed as kids in 30's and 40's..."You could go to the movies, see a film, a Flash
Gordon episode, and a short feature and a cartoon and get a snack all for a quarter"...

But I digress...

One of the "short features" that was frequently featured was a short with the comedy team "Olsen and Johnson" ...

My reaction to them at the time, (and frankly it remains my reaction) is that their schtick was a relatively obscure, less successful knock-off of Abbott and Costello... (Tall thin "straight man", short fat buffoon)

But to make a long story short, (though I realize it's far too late for that) their billing "Olsen and Johnson" has remained in my memory just for the purpose of saying (when subjected to something that, well, isn't particularly funny...like Joe Guy's and Strop's remarks in this thread or example... ) "Oh, you're the funniest thing since Olsen and Johnson"...

Which on a number of occasions over the years has elicited the response, "Who?"

To which I have replied, "exactly."...

[MajGenl.Meade]

I see the entire movie is on Youchewb but I've posted this snippet on this board before. Slim and Slam with Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

Letting some of the stereotype things pass by, what's seen here are great musicians and great dancers. There's a clip of the dance sequence alone on Yoochowed which gives the dancers' names.



In 1965/6 I'd never seen or heard of Abbot and Costello, so Olsen and Johnson didn't suffer. IMO, aside from Who's on First?, A&C made unfunny movies. Olsen and Johnson broke ground that A&C never set foot on

[oldr_n_wsr]

Don't be dissin' Abbot and Costello.
Next you'll be taking shots at Art Linkletter.