[78-L] Smeck you upside the head!

[Cary Ginell]

Terry Gibbs remembered this being used during a satirical swipe at Martin Denny on Steve Allen's TV show (although the word that was said was not "smock" but "schmuck"). Terry was asked to put on a Hawaiian shirt and supply Allen's cast (Bill Dana, Louis Nye, Tom Poston, Don Knotts, and a few others) with sets of vibraphone mallets. Nye walked out on stage with a pail of water while the stage manager yelled, "Quiet on the stage! Ready for the Martin Benny sketch!" While Allen played the piano, the others made obnoxious bird noises and banged on Gibbs' vibes while Nye blew into a straw in the pail, playing water. Someone else was playing armpit and everyone was yelling, "Schmuck! Schmuck! Schmuck!" Terry said all his Jewish relatives were embarrassed to hear this dirty word being yelled out by these crazy people on national television.
 
Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:15:14 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Smeck you upside the head!
> 
> Smock! Smock!
> 
> --Steve Allen
> 
> On 9/22/2010 2:10 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> > Mal, I'll forgive you for the date typo, but not for calling Roy Smeck
> > "ho-hum"!! I love that guy...he is both a wizard of technique and very
> > musical as well.
> >
> > Some may not know it, but there are several sides issued under his name in
> > 1930 which are regular dance bands, not just trios. Cheerful Little Earful
> > is one I especially like...I have it on Banner.
> >
> > Too bad he never recorded a duet with Fletcher Henderson: "Smeck and
> > Smack"!
> >
> >
> > Taylor
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Malcolm Rockwell"<malcolm at 78data.com>
> > To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Herald 460
> >
> >
> >> Ooops, that would be c. May 1955!
> >> Sheesh.
> >> Mal
> >>
> >> *******
> >>
> >> On 9/22/2010 7:58 AM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> >>> I just came up with an odd and - I think - great 78. I was buying some
> >>> Roy (ho-hum) Smeck Deccas on eBay and also won Herald 460. Sometimes
> >>> I'll buy a record only because the title might be Hawaii related. This
> >>> one is "Paradise Princess" and is a Rock n Roll ballad with no
> >>> Hawaiian-redeeming value. The flip is also of no tropical worth, BUT is
> >>> a most interesting New Orleans style rocker, ala Fats Domino& Dave
> >>> Bartholomew, entitled "My Sweetie's Gone" by Al Savage.
> >>> The instrumentation seems to be 2 (?alto) saxes, piano, tenor banjo, Bb
> >>> baritone tuba and drums with Savage doing vocal. The tuba is outstanding
> >>> in that the player not only does the normal bass line routines, but also
> >>> plays some lead lines. It bops along with the saxes using a very NO
> >>> feel. Very obscure... very interesting!
> >>> Seems it was recorded in New York c. May 1965.
> >>> I'll see what I can do about putting it up online somewhere.
> >>> I really need to find a regular "notepad" temp site to put up recordings!
> >>> Mal
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