Re: Spike Jones & The Two-headed Drummer

[Farfl's House <farfl...>]

I should have been more specific!
Earl Bennett sculpted a head to look exactly like Joe Siracusa's own head. A
special suit jacket was used to accomodate both heads. Spike would say to
the audience; "I was going to hire a guy with THREE heads, but I didn't
think you'd believe it!"
One night Joe drilled a hole in the back of the sculpted head and ran a tube
up to the head's mouth. He stood up during the show and let the head "take a
drag" off of his cigarette. Then he blew the smoke out of his own mouth. Joe
then proceeded to take a drag off of his cigarette, and the sculpted head
blew the smoke (talcum powder from a squeeze bulb) out of its head. "And now
the hard way", said Joe - he took a drag off of his cigarette, and Roger
Donley, the bass player, stood up and blew the smoke out of HIS mouth!
Is that all clear now?? I think I'm seeing double......
-LederLedermen
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Robinson" <GRComm (at) concentric(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: Spike Jones


> I thought everyone in the band had two heads.
> George (two heads are better than something or other) Robinson
>
>
> Jacob and Nancy Bloom wrote:
> >
> > Spike Jones had a drummer with two heads?
> >
> > > I'm good friends with Sir Frederick Gas (Earl Bennett) and two-headed
> > > drummer Joe Siracusa, both former members of Spike Jones' outfit.
> >
> > (Okay, I admit that my wife pointed out to me that he probably played a
drum
> > with two heads - but I couldn't resist asking.)
> >
> > Jacob
> >
>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Robinson" <GRComm (at) concentric(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: Spike Jones


> I thought everyone in the band had two heads.
> George (two heads are better than something or other) Robinson
>
>
> Jacob and Nancy Bloom wrote:
> >
> > Spike Jones had a drummer with two heads?
> >
> > > I'm good friends with Sir Frederick Gas (Earl Bennett) and two-headed
> > > drummer Joe Siracusa, both former members of Spike Jones' outfit.
> >
> > (Okay, I admit that my wife pointed out to me that he probably played a
drum
> > with two heads - but I couldn't resist asking.)
> >
> > Jacob
> >
>
> --
> ___________________________________________________________
> ARE YOU A FREELANCE WRITER?
> Then you should be a member of the NATIONAL
> WRITERS UNION!
> Web <http://www.nwu.org>, Ph:(212) 254-0279,
> Email <nwu (at) nwu(dot)org>
>
>

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