- May 31st, 2015, 12:31 am#4834285
I've always associated Ghostbusters with the Three Stooges.
In the mid-to-late 80's, my most frequent VHS rentals at the videostore were Stooges compilations and GB1.
Tonight I realize this wasn't entirely my own comedy preferences at work.
Think back to the days before home video, before the internet. In the 70's and 80's, one of the best ways to remember a movie after it had left theatres was to read the novelization.
P. 126 of the American novelization of Ghostbusters, Richard Mueller writes, "And there, in front of the fountain, hopping along in a strange little Curly Howard dance step, was a familiar figure in gray coveralls and an orange jacket."
Murray's dance and Mueller's phrasing are possibly more deliberate than today's viewers might realize.
In late 1983/early 1984 while Ghostbusters was being shot, there was this brief song craze called "The Curly Shuffle" by the Chicago-based country pop group Jump 'N the Saddle Band. It made it as high as No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. I clearly remember my classmates in northern Alabama singing it, so it was pretty much inescapable.
For those of you who've either never heard of it or forgotten it, here's the music video, copyrighted 1984.
Notice that copyright at the very end? "c 1984 Columbia Pictures, Inc." Gee, I wonder why these two are linked for me?
Now let's take another look at that magazine Janine is holding in her first scene.
A while back I bought a copy of this issue off eBay.
Note the middle blurb next to the first P in PEOPLE: "Swing to The Curly Shuffle".
On pages 26 and 27, there's an article by Linda Witt about the band and their song.
This immediately precedes the article which Janine is reading: pp. 28/29 about the Diana Ross concert and Mayor Ed Koch.
Alex
In the mid-to-late 80's, my most frequent VHS rentals at the videostore were Stooges compilations and GB1.
Tonight I realize this wasn't entirely my own comedy preferences at work.
Think back to the days before home video, before the internet. In the 70's and 80's, one of the best ways to remember a movie after it had left theatres was to read the novelization.
P. 126 of the American novelization of Ghostbusters, Richard Mueller writes, "And there, in front of the fountain, hopping along in a strange little Curly Howard dance step, was a familiar figure in gray coveralls and an orange jacket."
Murray's dance and Mueller's phrasing are possibly more deliberate than today's viewers might realize.
In late 1983/early 1984 while Ghostbusters was being shot, there was this brief song craze called "The Curly Shuffle" by the Chicago-based country pop group Jump 'N the Saddle Band. It made it as high as No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. I clearly remember my classmates in northern Alabama singing it, so it was pretty much inescapable.
For those of you who've either never heard of it or forgotten it, here's the music video, copyrighted 1984.
Notice that copyright at the very end? "c 1984 Columbia Pictures, Inc." Gee, I wonder why these two are linked for me?
Now let's take another look at that magazine Janine is holding in her first scene.
A while back I bought a copy of this issue off eBay.
Note the middle blurb next to the first P in PEOPLE: "Swing to The Curly Shuffle".
On pages 26 and 27, there's an article by Linda Witt about the band and their song.
This immediately precedes the article which Janine is reading: pp. 28/29 about the Diana Ross concert and Mayor Ed Koch.
Alex
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What a knockabout of pure fun that was!
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