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Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (born September 14, 1947) is an American singer, best known as a member of the band Sha Na Na, and game show host. Bauman's Sha Na Na character Bowzer was a greaser in a muscle shirt .
The group's name was taken from a series of nonsense syllables ("sha na na na, sha na na na na") in the song "Get a Job", originally recorded by the Silhouettes. [5] The final lineup featured original members Donny York and Jocko Marcellino, and longtime member Screamin' Scott Simon, who joined in 1970. Everyone else from the original band and ...
The program's only regular panelists were its co-hosts. Bauman — who appeared as himself and not as his Sha Na Na character Bowzer — sat on the panel during Match Game and the Super Match, while Rayburn took his place during Hollywood Squares. The most frequent semi-regular was actress Nedra Volz, who appeared for nine weeks. Mr.
Bowser, a former mascot dog of the Indiana Pacers basketball team – see Boomer; Bowser, the title character of Bowser the Hound, a 1920 children's book by Thornton Burgess; Bowser, Claire Bennett's pet dog in the American comic strip Moose & Molly; Bowser, a puppy character in Pound Puppies, a 1986–1989 American animated television series
Lennie Baker (April 18, 1946 – February 24, 2016) was an American singer and saxophone player for Sha Na Na. . Baker was born in Whitman, Massachusetts.He went on to become a member of the musical group Sha Na Na, doing vocals and playing sax. [1]
Sha Na Na is a syndicated television variety series that ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of 97 episodes, [1] hosted by the popular rock & roll/comedy group of the same name. The show was produced by Pierre Cossette and originally distributed by the Lexington Broadcast Services Company. Each episode ran for 22 minutes.
Simon joined Sha Na Na in April 1970, under the name "Screamin' Scott Simon". [4] He wrote numerous songs that have been recorded by the band and others over the years. Sha Na Na, who are known for covering 1950s Rock and Roll and doo-wop , appeared as a 1950s version of themselves in the 1978 film version of Grease .
The television show Sha Na Na aired from 1978 to 1981. Greene choreographed most of the moves for the show, on which he was known simply as Denny. Denny was portrayed in the series as the most intelligent member of Sha Na Na. He sang lead in the song "Tears on My Pillow" when he appeared with Sha Na Na in the movie Grease, in 1978.