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re than any of his peers mercer brought the south into the great american songbook and however unconsciously began to transcend race yet those very things that helped enrich tin pan alley in its waning years also helped end it it was the south and racial transcendence that did so much to propel rhythm n blues and rock n roll soon to become the primary popular music not just of america but the entire world from natchez to mobile from memphis to st jo wherever the four winds blow to quote blues in the night as it happens mercer loathed rock n roll it must have pained him that the two biggest acts on capitol records in the 60s were the beatles and the beach boys mercer and his partners had sold the company by then it was the worst of both worlds he didn t profit by the association while still presumably feeling its taint in his own fashion he had helped pave the way what the irresistible force of rock met in johnny mercer wasn t so much an old immovable object as an unwitting ally mark feeney can be reached at mfeeney globe com copyright 2009 globe newspaper company single page 1 2 3 reader comments view reader comments 6 comment on this story log in to comment sorry we could not find your e mail or password please try again or click here to retrieve your password existing users e mail password screen name fields are required login forgot your password new users please take a minute to register after you register and pick a screen name you can publish your comments everywhere on the site posting policy register your comment is subject to the rules of our posting policy this comment may appear on your public profile public profile faq ads by google what s this theraflu find out which theraflu treatment is right for you www theraflu com make songs on your pc you sing songsmith makes the music many music styles less than 30 store microsoft com songsmith maine coast cruises sail the coast of maine aboard a historic tall ship 3 6 day cruises www sailmainecoast com movie listings search movie times globe review archive find theaters by town advertisement posted by tdpiv at 9 53 am no comments accentuate tha positive posted by tdpiv at 9 49 am no comments thursday november 5 2009 the way it was look out for that big fiery rock posted by tdpiv at 10 07 am no comments wednesday october 28 2009 billy and charlie http www youtube com watch v tneppzcha5u yeah it s their b day posted by tdpiv at 9 41 am no comments tuesday october 27 2009 lest we forget home literature eugene field poems poems of childhood wynken blynken and nod dutch lullaby by eugene field 1850 1895 wynken blynken and nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew where are you going and what do you wish the old moon asked the three we have come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea nets of silver and gold have we said wynken blynken and nod the old moon laughed and sang a song as they rocked in the wooden shoe and the wind that sped them all night long ruffled the waves of dew the little stars were the herring fish that lived in that beautiful sea now cast your nets wherever you wish never afeard are we so cried the stars to the fishermen three wynken blynken and nod all night long their nets they threw to the stars in the twinkling foam then down from the skies came the wooden shoe bringing the fishermen home t was all so pretty a sail it seemed as if it could not be and some folks thought t was a dream they d dreamed of sailing that beautiful sea but i shall name you the fishermen three wynken blynken and nod wynken and blynken are two little eyes and nod is a little head and the wooden shoe that sailed the skies is a wee one s trundle bed so shut your eyes while mother sings of wonderful sights that be and you shall see the beautiful things as you rock in the misty sea where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three wynken blynken and nod back to eugene field poems poems of childhood page last updated 4 february 1999 1998 1999 richard j yanco posted by tdpiv at 11 55 am no comments thursday october 22 2009 hey moe hey moe back october 22 1903 january 18 1952 c urly howard the one with the shaven head which moe referred to as looking like a dirty tennis ball was the most popular member of the three stooges and the most inventive of the three his hilarious improvisations and classic catch phrases of n yuk n yuk n yuk and wooo wooo wooo have established him as a great american cult hero h is real name was jerome lester horwitz born to jennie and solomon horwitz on october 22 1903 in bath beach a summer resort in a section of brooklyn he was the fifth and youngest of the horwitz sons and weighed eight and a half pounds at birth he was delivered by dr duffy the brother of moe howard s six grade school teacher curly jerome to complicate matters was nicknamed babe by his brother moe c urly was a quiet child and gave his parents very little trouble moe and shemp made up for him in spades moe recalls one mischievous incident when curly was an infant we took his brand new baby carriage removed the wheels made a pair of axles from two by fours and built our own version of a soap box racer we put curly in it and dragged him all over town it was a lucky thing we didn t kill him when our parents found out we had the devil to pay w hen curly was about four moe and shemp started to instill in their brother the idea of becoming a comedian quite frequently they would stage small theater productions in the basement of their friends homes the cast would usually consist of shemp moe and curly there was a charge of two cents for admission but the ventures could not have been very lucrative as the boys had to split the take three ways it is believed that during these performances curly got his first taste of comedy m oe also recalled that curly was only a fair student in school a boyhood friend lester friedman remembers that he was a fine athlete making a name for himself on the elementary school basketball team though curly never graduated from school he kept himself busy doing odd jobs following moe and shemp wherever they went a s a young man curly loved to dance and listen to music and he became an accomplished ballroom dancer he would go regularly to the triangle ballroom in brooklyn where on several occasions he met george raft who in the early days of his career was a fine ballroom dancer curly also tried his hand at the ukulele singing along as he strummed as moe once said he was not a good student but he was in demand socially what with his beautiful singing voice moe continued to influence his kid brother s theatrical education taking him along with him to vaudeville shows and the melodrama theaters but curly s first love was musicals and comedy d uring this period sometime in his late teens curly found another love and married a young girl whose name remains a mystery to this day his mother jennie horwitz the matriarch of the family was against the idea of curly s marrying at such a young age and before six months had gone by had the marriage annulled i n 1928 curly landed a job as a comedy musical conductor for the orville knapp band which to that date was his only stage experience moe recalls that his brother s performances usually overshadowed those of the band he was billed as the guest conductor and would come out and lead the band in a breakaway tuxedo the sections of the suit would fall away piece by piece while he stood there swinging his baton y oung curly s interest in show business continued to grow as he watched his brothers shemp and moe perform as stooges in ted healy s act joe besser who worked with them in the passing show of 1932 recalls that curly liked to hang around backstage he was there all the time and would get sandwiches for all of us in the show including ted healy and his stooges he never participated in any of the routines but liked to watch us perform during this period curly remained in the shadow of his brothers and watched as their careers began to skyrocket them to stardom along with healy i t was in 1932 during j j shubert s passing show that healy had an argument with shubert and walked off the show taking larry and moe along with him shemp disenchanted with healy s drunken bouts and practical jokes decided to remain in the shubert show l ater that afternoon moe suggested to healy that his kid brother babe curly was available and would make an excellent replacement for shemp since he was familiar with the act ted agreed asking curly to join the act but under the condition that he shave his head at the time curly sported long wavy brown hair and a mustache in an interview curly recalled the incident i had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache when i went to see ted healy about a job as one of the stooges he said what can you do i said i don t know he said i know what you can do you can shave off your hair to start with then later on i had to shave off my poor mustache i had to shave it off right down to the skin c urly s wacky style of comedy started to emerge first on stage and then on screen when healy and his stooges starred in numerous features and comedy shorts for mcm later in 1934 curly played an integral part in the team s rise to fame as the three stooges at columbia pictures where he starred as a stooge in 97 two reel comedies b ut success virtually destroyed curly he started to drink heavily feeling that his shaven head robbed him of his sex appeal larry fine once remarked that curly wore a hat in public to confirm an image of masculinity since he felt like a little kid with his hair shaved off curly was also unable to save a cent when he received his check he d rush out to spend it on life s pleasures wine women a new house an automobile or a new dog curly was mad about dogs since curly was certainly no businessman moe usually handled all of his affairs helped him manage his money and even made out his income tax returns c urly s homes were san fernando valley show places and most of them were either purchased from or sold to a select group of hollywood personalities one house curly purchased was on cahuenga boulevard and sarah street in north hollywood and was purchased from child star sabu later curly sold the property to a promising young actress of the forties joan leslie curly also bought a lot next door to moe howard s palatial home in toluca lake expecting to build on it but he never did it was eventually sold to film director raoul walsh a s to curly s personality he was basically an introvert barely speaking on the set between takes the complete antithesis of his insanely hilarious screen character charles lamont who directed curly in two stooges comedies related in an interview that curly was pretty dull this may not be a very nice thing to say but i don t think he had all of his marbles he was always on cloud nine whenever you talked to him c larice seiden the sister of moe howard s wife helen saw curly off screen whenever there was a party at his home she remembers him as being far from a quiet person seiden said although he wasn t on stage all the time i wouldn t call him a quiet person he was a lot of fun he was quiet at times but when he had a few drinks and he drank quite a bit he was more gregarious c urly s niece dolly sallin agreed with mrs seiden that curly liked people but shared lamont s viewpoint that he could be quiet at times i can remember his wanting to be with people he wasn t a recluse and i wouldn t call him dull he wasn t an intellect nor did he go in for discussions but when i think of someone as dull i d think of them as being under par intelligence wise and curly wasn t that f riends remember that curly refrained from any crazy antics in private life but reserved them for his performances in the comedies however when he got together with his brothers moe and shemp it was a totally different story as irma grenner leveton a friend of moe and helen howard recalls yes curly did clown around but only if moe shemp and larry were with him or if his immediate group of friends or family were there but the minute there were strangers he retreated b ut curly s main weakness was women to paraphrase an old adage curly couldn t live with women or live without them mrs leveton remembers that women were his favorite pastime for a number of reasons as she said he just liked a good time and that was it and women he loved women i don t have to tell you not always the nicest women you know why because he was so shy curly didn t know how to speak to a woman so he would wind up conversing with anyone that approached him d olly sallin viewed his love for women in a similar manner i can remember his wanting to be around people and that included the current woman in his life that was the most important thing if she was good bad or whatever if he decided she was interesting that was that as long as there was a woman around the house he would stay home instead of running around he seemed restless to me d irector producer norman maurer first met curly in 1945 and remembers that he was a pushover for women if a pretty girl went up to him and gave him a spiel curly would marry her then she would take his money and run off it was the same when a real estate agent would come up and say i have a house for you curly would sell his current home and buy another one it seemed as though every two weeks he would have a new girl a new car a new house and a new dog b ut as much as curly loved women they were his downfall he married three times after his first marriage was annulled on june 7 1937 he married elaine ackerman in 1938 elaine gave birth to curly s first child a daughter marilyn due to the addition to their family curly and elaine moved to a home on the 400 block of highland avenue in hollywood near where moe lived at the time but slowly the marriage began to crumble and elaine filed suit for divorce on july 11 1940 after only three years of marriage d uring the next five years curly ate drank and made merry he gained a tremendous amount of weight and his blood pressure soared on january 23 1945 he entered the cottage hospital in santa barbara where he was diagnosed as having extreme hypertension a retinal hemorrhage and obesity he remained at the hospital for tests and treatment and was discharged on february 9 1945 e ight months later while making a personal appearance in new york curly met marion buxbaum a petite blonde woman with a ten year old son from a previous marriage curly instantly fell in love with her and they were married in new york on october 17 1945 it was felt that marion used curly to her advantage he spent a fortune on her everything from fur coats to expensive jewelry curly even bought her a new home on ledge street in toluca lake as marie howard jack howard s wife recalled she was just after his money i t didn t take long for curly to find out that marion wasn t for him after a miserable three months 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