The reason the Ritz Brothers never reached the heights, much less cult status, is because you couldn't tell them apart, much different from all other comedy teams. the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis, all of them. Too bad, because they had a zaniness of thei...
Most of the cadences I see here are running (double time) cadences, with "lyrics." Far more drill is quick time (more or less a walking pace). The DIs in my day on the Island (late 50s) all called cadence distinctively, no lyrics, just sounds (born out of the basic left-right). Some were creat...
This is part of the soundtrack music for Odds Against Tomorrow, and excellent film from the late fifties starring Robert Ryan, Harry Belafonte and Ed Begley.
The reason the Ritz Brothers never reached the heights, much less cult status, is because you couldn't tell them apart, much different from all other comedy teams. the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis, all of them. Too bad, because they had a zaniness of thei...