Somebody took Oliver Hardy's little blues accapella at the beginning of "Towed in a Hole" and remixed it. Check it out:
As a Laurel and Hardy fan, I feel a need to become personally involved. Thus, I am sponsoring a contest for who can do the best Oliver Hardy Fresh Fish Blues. Prize will be a nice prewar harmonica, I haven't decided which one yet, specific prizes will be announced later, but they will be cool. ANd you will have bragging rights, if you win. I am looking for videos of people playing the song "fresh fish Blues" To enter, just post a video on Youtube with the title "Elk River Harmonicas Oliver Hardy Fresh Fish Blues Contest entry" in the title and post a link of it here in this thread. Get as crazy as you want. Accompaniment is fine, you can have whatever accompaniment you want. You can post as many entries as you want, I don't care. I'm not a big stickler for rules, do whatever you want actually. This is about fun. Harmonica(s) should be involved. I guess that's a rule. Videos will be judged for skill and entertainment value. Deadline for videos is Dec. 1. Again, you can post more than one video and each video will be judged as a separate entry based on its merits.
Have fun making another fine mess!
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Last Edited by on Oct 07, 2009 9:08 PM
You can do whatever you want, as I do not like to restrict creativity, but what I was thinking about was just playing the song, but certainly if you had a bowler hat or a kid brother that looked like Stan Laurel, I'd put them in, ;).
Ok, here's the the prizes I've figured out so far. One prize is a prewar harmonica, a bit of an oddball. A Marine Band from I'd say about 1938. Sealed comb, bolted covers... It has a prewar front cover and a post-war looking back cover. It's actually one of the first things I ever customized...
One will be a frameable pic of Borrah Minnevitch and the harmonica Rascals and a frameable copy of a letter (I have and will keep the original) signed by Minnevitch. In this letter, Minnevitch displays an unmatched, world-class talent for kissing his own ass. Seriously, it's incredible how much B.S. Minnevitch pored into this thing. Letter is dated June 19, 1934, Radio City, Rockefeller Center, New York City.
Again, I'm looking for people making a video of themselves playing the song.
