The Alphabet song

[Ken Roberts]

Does Moe do his own singing in the song "Swinging the Alphabet"? It doesn't
sound much like his voice.
--
Ken Roberts
ken...@bellsouth.net

[Gail]

I understand why you would wonder about this, I did too, until I read about it.
All of the stooges own voices were dubbed into that short later, which maybe
part of the reason why Moe voice sounds a little odd. Moe also, when singing as
a group with the boys, sang baritone. To me, it sounds as though he is trying to
sing tenor in the alphabet song, that may have been a little bit hard for him as
he was a natural baritone. Anyone else have thoughts on this ?
Gail

"For Duty and Humanity!"

[Ltb3105]

>Moe voice sounds a little odd

"Gailie":

I thought it was Moe's voice when I was a kid, but now I know better......I,
too, often wondered why he didn't use his own voice....when the Stooges made
those Christmas songs and other dittys with Curly Joe, Moe sometimes sang alone
and it sounded pretty good and that was in his senior years!!

This has perplexed me why his own voice was never used.......when the other
voices were harmonizing after that first verse, was it them? How about Curly?
Was that his voice?

Laura
"Curly's A Dope!"

[Gail]

Yes, it is Moe's voice, but he is not singing in a key that was "natural" for him.
For example, I'm an alto when I sing, which is lower than a tenor. Tenors are
generally the "lead" singers in bands because they sing in higher keys or
registers, which is more desirable to listen to.
Moe was a baritone which is much lower than a tenor and lower than an alto. Bass
(almost always men) is lower than a baritone, it's as low as you can get as far as
singing goes. Like Moe in the "Alphabet Song" if I try to sing higher out of my
register it sounds odd and sometimes strained. That's why I think Moe comes off
sounding odd. Curly's dub sounds fine, this is because Curly was a natural tenor
(and a very good one at that!) and he sings as a tenor in this song.
Now, I've wondered, why doesn't Larry get to sing ??
Inquiring minds want to know...
Gail

[Stanislav Jehosaphat]

Gail <om...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Yes, it is Moe's voice, but he is not singing in a key that was "natural"
for him.
> For example, I'm an alto when I sing, which is lower than a tenor. Tenors
are
> generally the "lead" singers in bands because they sing in higher keys or
> registers, which is more desirable to listen to.
> Moe was a baritone which is much lower than a tenor and lower than an
alto. Bass
> (almost always men) is lower than a baritone, it's as low as you can get
as far as
> singing goes. Like Moe in the "Alphabet Song" if I try to sing higher out
of my
> register it sounds odd and sometimes strained. That's why I think Moe
comes off
> sounding odd.

Actually, post-dubbed vocals of that era always sounded a tad "unnatural" --
maybe something to do with the technical process at the time being somwhat
primitive by our standards.

Years ago, I worked part-time at a Domino's Pizza where the manager and 3 or
4 of us employees were all Stooges fans. Sometimes when we would be getting
slammed with orders, the manager would suddenly launch into "The Alphabet
Song" and we would all join in, getting louder and sillier with each verse.
If someone had walked in, it would have been quite a sight -- all these guys
spinning pizza dough, manning the ovens, and boxing pizzas, all laughing
like idiots and singing (very off-key) "B-ay-bay, B-ee-bee...." etc. <g>

[Gail]

Oops, sorry folks, that last one post got away from me.
You're absolutely right, he did do a good job in "Women Haters" ! Obviously, Moe had
good range ! A lot better than I do !
Thanks Ray,
Gail

Moe: "You can't open a little file drawer, how did you get so stupid?!"

Larry: "I got a charge account ! What's your excuse?!!"

Ray Greenberg wrote:

>
>
> Moe sang "My Love, My All" in "Woman Haters" as a tenor; I thought he
> sounded pretty good, too!
>
> Ray G.
>
> Curly: "Well, it was like this, Judgee--"
> Lawyer: "Please address the court as 'Your Honor'!
> Curly: "Well, it was like this, My Honor--"
> Lawyer: "YOUR Honor, not MY Honor!!"
> Curly: "Why? Don't ya like him?"
> --The Three Stooges "Disorder in the Court" (1936)

[Ray Greenberg]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:37:12 -0400, Gail <om...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>Moe was a baritone which is much lower than a tenor and lower than an alto. Bass
>(almost always men) is lower than a baritone, it's as low as you can get as far as
>singing goes. Like Moe in the "Alphabet Song" if I try to sing higher out of my
>register it sounds odd and sometimes strained.

Moe sang "My Love, My All" in "Woman Haters" as a tenor; I thought he

[Ltb3105]

>Court [Judge]: "Please go on.(?) The Court understands him."
> Curly: "Thanks, Courty. You're a pal!"
>
> [Double-take by Judge after that remark!]
>
> hahaha
>
>ROFLMAO.......great stuff!

Laura
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>
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[Ltb3105]

>"Curly's A Dope!"
>
Would you believe it was just a few short years ago, I was visiting my brother
in Fla., and he had the video of this short and told me to listen very
carefully to the girls singing this......I couldn't believe I had never noticed
this before after all these years!!

Laura
"You're um-day in ANY language!"

[Gail]

I guess there's nothing like some stooge bonding among friends! By the by, were
you guys able to harmonize? And I'm sure you added: "Curly's a dope !!"
Gail

Moe: " You have sullied the fair name of the great sovereign state of, CLAP!
CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! Texas!! "

[John Spillane]

Re: From what I've seen,read,and heard....they all had pretty nice
singing voices....Just listen to the boy's sing,espesially Moe in Woman
Haters(1934).Then there was...The Tooth Will Out(1951),with Vernon Dent
playing the voice of the teeth...and A Ducking They Did Go(1939)with Bud
Jamison...Just to name a few...But what do I know....lol... Personally
my taste of music lay along the lines of The Smashing
Pumpkins,Metallica,Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin...Sorry...didn't mean
to fall off the thread like that...lol

[Ltb3105]

>Then there was...The Tooth Will Out(1951),with Vernon Dent
>playing the voice of the teeth

Are you kidding? Was that really Vernon talking back and singing with the boys
in that one?

Laura
"Hey, ain't those choppers done yet?"

[Girlskamog]

Can you kind folks help me please? Which stooges film did this song appear
in, and who composed this song? I am using a short sample from this in an
animation and I need to find out who to ask, to get official permission to
use it!

You can view the Flash animation here:
http://www.chridmeister.co.uk/html/flash.html
follow the link to "Gettin About"

Thanks!

Chrid

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[Girlskamog]

DOH! I just read the FAQ. Gnnn!

So, now I know:
Name of song: Swingin' The Alphabet
Film: Violent is the Word for Curly
Year:1939
Director: Charley Chase
Script: Charley Chase and Elwood Ullman

So all I need to know now is... who owns the copyright??? And how do I find
them???

Chrid
(oops, using girlfriends account)

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