Word: schnickelfritz
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...grunting; and the clowning Riley-Farley Band which caused a minor musical epidemic in 1936 with The Music Goes Round & Around. Well on their way toward the same sort of eminence last week were six droll musicians of St. Paul, Minn., who play under the name of the Schnickelfritz Band and whose chief assets are two trunkfuls of funny hats and a large supply of wigs, beards and spectacles. Night after night people lined up to pay 25? and crowd the Midway Club beyond its capacity (250) just to watch Leader Freddie Fisher & colleagues do their odd stuff...
...compromised on a clarinet, but Freddie says he always broke the reed just before school band practice. When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern in Winona, Minn. Frankly out to build up a novelty band rather than one which would be noted for its music, Freddie signed up two cards like himself for the front row- Stanley...
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