Harpo and Hungarian Rhapsody

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtc9a4TgRus

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@gungasnake,

It probably is real, the guy released an album of harp music.

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

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@gungasnake,

The guy was a musician, why would you doubt it?

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@ehBeth,

My question also. He was a gifted musician...that was always acknowledged.

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His brother Chico was equally virtuosic at the piano . . .

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Most people are unaware that the Marx brothers were professional musicians before they got into motion pictures . . . Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Karl.

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@gungasnake,

It's from A Night in Casablanca. And yes, Harpo did all of his own harp playing.

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I believe that the Harpo excerpt from the movie was a "Millee Vanilee". They probably overdubbed so thy could do it in one take, otherwise it could take several takes and that wasnt the normal routine back then. Harpo was also a decent composer. Werent ther 5 original Marx Brothers?

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@farmerman,

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Werent ther 5 original Marx Brothers?

That's right--Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and Karl.

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http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005T7K4.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

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@Setanta,

was Karl the one they called Gummo?

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@joefromchicago,

I asked my father about this one this morning and he agrees. He said all of the Marx brothers were accomplished musicians and that Harpo was easily capable of this one. What I wasn't sure of was whether it was even possible to play something that complicated on a harp.

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@djjd62,

I'm glad somebody picked up on that tortured attempt at humor . . .

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@farmerman,

Yeah . . . he and Zeppo were supposed to be the love interests, but Karl grew that damned beard, and was replaced by Zeppo, and then the three wise guys realized they didn't need a romantic lead in barn burners like Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera . . .

(Geeze, FM, didn't you get the "Karl" gag yet ? ! ? ! ?)

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@Setanta,

Nope , went right over my head because , in my family, on my one Polak grammas side, the family name was MARKS and I had an Uncle named KAROL. SO the name of Karl Marx wasnt strange .NOW, I dont know if weve got any Mordechais in our family (I think that KArl's father changed his name when he "converted" also) but we have evidence that , on the side of my family that was in the Tsars Pogroms, several had changed their religion ferom Jew to Russian Orthodox. Establishing the fact that Jews can be very accomodating to new ideas in religion

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There was, of course, a Gummo. They did try to use Zeppo as a romantic interest in their films up to a certain point, but i don't think it was really appropriate, and i suspect it was a dictate of the studios. I believe that from A Day at the Races onward, it was just the three oldest boys.

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@Setanta,

yes but what was gummos real name?

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Milton . . .

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Here ya go . . . Marx Brothers-dot-org.

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@gungasnake,

gungasnake wrote:

I asked my father about this one this morning and he agrees. He said all of the Marx brothers were accomplished musicians and that Harpo was easily capable of this one. What I wasn't sure of was whether it was even possible to play something that complicated on a harp.

It shouldn't be any more complicated to play that on a harp than it would be to play it on the guitar.

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