New Harpo Marx Site

Subject: New Harpo Marx Site
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 07:52 PM

HarpoMarx.net


honk honk (trans. Great new affectionate Harpo site)

honk honk honk (trans. I foresee copyright problems for the harpist who put this page together, so go and have a look quick!!!)

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This account has been gone for a while but there are many captures in the Internet Archive (linked above). ---mudelf

Subject: RE: New Harpo Marx Site
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 10:15 PM

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Subject: RE: New Harpo Marx Site
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 Jun 05 - 12:04 AM

Good site.

Subject: RE: New Harpo Marx Site
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jun 26 - 11:23 AM

This thread has been updated to show the archived version of the Harpo Marx Tribute site, but mostly so I can share the following:

A Rare Recording of Harpo Marx Speaking Publicly Was Mislabeled in an Archive for Decades. Now You Can Listen to the ‘Silent’ Comedian Yourself.
The comedian of the stage and big screen thrilled millions of Americans without ever speaking a word, leaving many to wonder what his voice sounded like

On March 20, 1964, the Riverside Symphony hosted a benefit concert on the eastern outskirts of Los Angeles that featured guest performer Harpo Marx, the silent member of the Marx Brothers comedy team. His antics on the stage and screen—at once childlike and hedonistic—delighted generations of audiences and now, as a newspaper advertisement proclaimed, he would speak publicly for the first time in 50 years.

In the first half of the program, Harpo, as was his wont, performed popular selections on the harp. Then he approached the microphone, slipped on a pair of reading glasses and announced, to rapturous applause, “Believe it or not … I’m gonna talk.”

What the audience could not have known was that this would be Harpo’s final public musical performance. In declining health, he died six months later, at age 70, following complications from heart surgery.

A recording of the concert was one of the few remaining Holy Grails for Marx Brothers fans, the vast majority of whom had never heard Harpo’s voice. Unearthing the precious recording—mislabeled and lost but preserved for more than six decades—has been “a detective story,” says Robert Bader, a Marx Brothers historian. He’s also a co-producer of a new album that allows the public to hear the recording for the very first time. Harpo Speaks! The Riverside Symphony Concert is now available on CD and vinyl from Ramseur Records.

There's a lot more to the article and you can listen to a track included there.

Subject: RE: New Harpo Marx Site
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Jun 26 - 06:30 PM

In the past Los Angeles

9th and Figuroa S/E corner was "The Variety Arts Performance Museum" hosted by Milt Larson of "Magic Castle" fame. (Private Magicians Club)

I recall Harpo's harp and at least an entire floor devoted to the brothers.