Three Stooges Songs

Subject: Three Stooges Songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 11:28 AM

AMC-TV has been running Stooges episodes ad hysterium. We don't seem to have a thread for songs in the Stooges episodes!

Episode list below, probably not exhaustive, and no indication which ones are Shemp/Curly/Joe Besser episodes, but it's a start. Episode numbers are mine, just to facilitate discussion.

Is it a good thing or not, to be able to sing the B-A-Bay, B-E Bee, B-I-Bickie-Bye song from memory, at half tempo? :~)

~Susan

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1. A Bird in the Head . . . Paper-hanger Curly is candidate for a brain transplant.

2. A Pain in the Pullman . . . The boys wreak havoc on a train.

3. A-Plumbing We Will Go . . . Plumber Stooges flood a garden party.

4. All the World's a Stooge . . . Window-washer Stooges are mistaken for dentists.

5. An Ache in Every Stake . . . Icemen Stooges cater a birthday dinner.

6. Ants in the Pantry . . . The boys work as exterminators.

7. Boobs in Arms . . . The boys unwittingly enlist in the Army.

8. Busy Buddies . . . Curly enters a state-fair milking contest.

9. Cactus Makes . . . Perfect Inventor Stooges find a gold mine.

10. Calling All Curs . . . Crooks steal a prize pup from the Stooges' animal hospital.

11. Cookoo Cavaliers . . . Instead of a beer saloon, the boys buy a beauty salon.

12. Disorder in the Court . . . The boys are murder witnesses.

13. Dizzy Detectives . . . Cop Stooges meet an explosive gorilla.

14. Dizzy Doctors . . . Snake-oil salesmen Stooges invade a hospital.

15. Dutiful but Dumb . . . The boys have one last wish before their execution.

16. Gents Without Cents . . . The boys hit on vaudeville.

17. Goofs and Saddles . . . Wild-west Stooges must bring in outlaws dead or alive.

18. Grips, Grunts and Groans . . . Curly must enter the wrestling ring.

19. Half-Shot Shooters . . . The boys unwittingly re-enlist under their old sergeant.

20. Half-Wits Holiday . . . A professor bets he can turn the boys into gentlemen.

21. Higher Than a Kite . . . The Stooges join the RAF.

22. Hoi Polloi . . . A professor bets he can turn the boys into gentlemen.

23. Horse Collars . . . Out West, the boys help an innocent maiden recover her inheritance.

24. Idiots . . . Deluxe Hunters mistake rug-wrapped Moe for a bear.

25. If a Body Meets a Body . . . Curly is mentioned in a will.

26. In the Sweet Pie and Pie . . . Three heiresses wed the condemned trio.

27. Loco Boy Makes Good . . . A mouse helps Curly save a hotel from bankruptcy.

28. Matri-phony . . . The trio shelters a redhead from an emperor.

29. Men in Black . . . Intern Stooges err fatally; guest Billy Gilbert.

30. Micro-Phonies . . . Plumber Stooges audition for a radio show.

31. Monkey Business . . . The boys are electricians and surgeons.

32. Mutts to You . . . Pet-groomer Stooges think an unattended baby is abandoned.

33. Nutty But Nice . . . The boys find stolen bonds and a sick child's daddy.

34. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise . . . The boys recover a widow's oil-rich land from swindlers.

35. Out West . . . Outlaws think Shemp's ``vein'' is a gold mine.

36. Pardon My Scotch . . . Scots Stooges bootleg Scotch.

37. Phony Express . . . Bank robbers take patent-medicine seller Stooges for detectives.

38. Pop Goes the Easel . . . The boys duck police in an art school.

39. Punch Drunks . . . Curly is a violin-crazed fighter.

40. Punchy Cowpunchers . . . The cavalry hires the boys to capture outlaws.

41. Rhythm & Weep . . . An opportune offer saves the suicidal Stooges.

42. Rockin' Through the Rockies . . . Indians take the chorus girls from the Stooges' traveling show.

43. Saved by the Belle . . . The boys sell winter clothes in the tropics.

44. Slippery Silks . . . The boys break a Ming vase.

45. So Long Mr. Chumps . . . The trio tries to free an innocent man from jail.

46. Sock-a-Bye-Baby . . . The trio finds a baby on the doorstep.

47. Some More of Samoa . . . A millionaire asks the boys to save a tree.

48. Tassels in the Air . . . The boys are mistaken for interior designers.

49. The Sitter Downers . . . The boys sit down for love.

50. The Three Troubledoers . . . Curly becomes a sheriff.

51. Three Dumb Clucks . . . The boys' father wants to wed a shapely blonde.

52. Three Little Pigskins . . . Stooges are football players.

53. Three Little Pirates . . . The marooned trio is condemned.

54. Three Missing Links . . . Curly dons a gorilla suit for a movie.

55. Three Sappy People . . . As psychiatrists, the boys treat a playgirl.

56. Violent Is the Word for Curly . . . The boys are mistaken for professors.

57. Wee Wee Monsieur . . . The trio ends up in the French Foreign Legion.

58. Woman Haters . . . The boys vow never to marry.

59. Yes, We Have No Bonanza . . . The boys prospect for gold.

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: dwditty
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 12:46 PM

Susan,

I thought it was written somewhere that only men get the 3 stooges. What gives? (BG). Women get all the avacados though.

dw

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 01:13 PM

Do you believe everything that is "written somewhere", dwditty? Or are you saying that women aren't allowed to get the 3 Stooges?

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 01:39 PM

Hardi is a strong influence. My Stooge threshold is much higher than when I was younger. :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 03:20 PM

What episode do they sing "Swinging the Alphabet?" ("Bee I Bikki Bi Bee U Boo etc")
"Violent is the Word for Curly," 1938

What episode do they perform the "Niagara Falls" routine?
Gents Without Cents, 1944

Also see: http://www.threestooges.net/real.asp

~S~

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 03:27 PM

Bwub Bwub Bwub Bwub!!!

(nyuk nyuk nyuk)

...NIAGRA FALLS!!!!!

sloooooowly I turned...

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 03:30 PM

step by step

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: dwditty
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 08:01 PM

CarolC....I would never presume to even suggest what women are allowed or not allowed to do or get. I have lived exclusively with women (wives, daughters, and even female dogs) for well over 30 years. I only meant that many women have scoffed at the 3 stooges deeming it juvenile, male-oriented humour (I stuck a U in humor so you would think I am from Canada) which I why my Stooge watching has been confined to my small room in the basement. BG

dw

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 08:56 PM

Come towards the light!

~S~

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: mack/misophist
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 09:41 PM

Never having fallen under the spell of the Stooges, I freely grant the ladies any interest I might have had in their repertoire for a fee of three peppercorns, paid every fourth St Swithin's Day.

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 12:01 AM

Even the dogs won't watch them with you dw? Man, that's rough.

I don't know, mack. I've been watching them since I was about four years old. Is this fee retroactive?

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 12:38 AM

When I was a kid, my mom would not let my brothers and I watch the stooges. However, my grandfather (her dad) liked the stooges, so when he was visiting, we could watch them. I can understand and appreciate the arguments against the stooges, but you know, I still watch them when they're on. Some comedic film bits never get any better than that.

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 10:37 AM

My fee is retroactive to the day it was posted. Or later, if you prefer.

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 11:27 AM

Later works for me.

Does anyone know the name of the Stooges' intro music, if it has one?

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 11:39 AM

I did know the name of it, but I've forgotten - wasn't 'babes in toyland' the theme tune of Abbott & Costello?

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: radriano
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 11:59 AM

The Stooges song that sticks in my mind is one that Curly sang. The boys were stuck with an infant and they were preparing a dinner for the child. Curly was washing vegetables in the kitchen sink (using soap, of course) and he start singing:

"When I was born in Argentina-a-a-a-"

Subject: RE: Three Stooges Songs
From: JenEllen
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 01:09 PM

LOL I can't tell you how many New Year's Eve parties I have been either late for, or have just plain skipped, because of the Stooges. There is always some station (AMC/TNT/TBS ad stoogeum) that is having a marathon on New Year's....It's a sickness.

There must be a Stooges songbook out there.