[Dixielandjazz] OT: HERB SHRINER

[Harry Callaghan]

I've got to go check on the Masters so I'm officially off everything for the
remainder of the afternoon.

On 4/11/10, Stan Brager <sbrager at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Gaffigan is similar in delivery to Steven Wright but he tells a more
> coherent story. Like Herb Shriner, he’s quiet and has a home-spun quality.
> An internet search for him will bring up several clips from his stage shows.
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> I suggest that we make this Off-Topic.
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> From: Harry Callaghan [mailto:meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 9:59 AM
> To: Stan Brager
> Cc: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] HERB SHRINER
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> I've only heard of him.  Is he one of the members of what you might want to
> call Denis Leary's "Rat Pack", along with Steven Wright and a coupla other
> comics who I believe play in charitable hockey games?
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> Coupla weeks ago I was listening to a Will Rogers tape.  If you are familiar
> with him at all , you know of course, that he wasn't the least bit shy as to
> taking pot shots as encumbent politicians of his era.
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> It's funny though, as you listen, you can take his words and just substitute
> the names of some of our current "lawmakers" which shows to go
> ya.......things change but remain essentialy the same.
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> I'm getting off at this stop before I start going political.on y'all.
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> "Sponges grow in the ocean.  I wonder how deep it would be without them"
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> On 4/11/10, Stan Brager <sbrager at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Harry;
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> Today's Herb Shriner is Jim Gaffigan. Are you familiar with his work?
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> Stan
> Stan Brager
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harry Callaghan [mailto:meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 8:19 PM
> > To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com;
> tradjazz at list.okom.com
> > Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] HERB SHRINER
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> > For reasons that I won't bore you with, I researched subject party on
> > Wikipedia earlier today.............well, actually I just wanted to
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> > how he had died, and it was in a car wreck..
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> > If you're not old enough to remember him, he did standup much in the
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> > of Will  Rogers, although he was not quite so bold as his predecessor
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> > political references.  If he were still alive today, I do not think
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> > would be the case.
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> > I remember so well his reference to growing up in a small town in
> > Indiana
> > where "us guys would go downtown on Saturdays to watch haircuts"
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> > I am reminded of Herb every time I hear someone use the phrase, "about
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> > exciting as watching paint dry"
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> > In any case, I came across an album that he had recorded called "Herb
> > Shriner on Stage" in 1955 that featured his harmonica band and of
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> > obviously standup comedy.
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> > It is available on vinyl at Amazon to the tune of about 42 bucks, a
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> > steep for something that I would perhaps only listen to once or twice.
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> > If there is anyone reading this who happens to have said album and
> > would be
> > willing to reproduce it onto either cassette or CD, I would be most
> > appreciative.
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> > I would of course re-imburse said individual for costs involved in
> > doing so,
> > or throw me some names and I would be most willing to reciprocate by
> > furnishing copies of an item or two from my own vast musical collection
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> > If that be the case, I will only furnish my address "off-list" as I
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> > have more women than I can handle, banging on my door, crying "Let me
> > out,
> > let me out"...........and who did I steal that line from?
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> > Thanx
> > HC
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