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Jump 'n the Saddle Band was an American Western swing band from Chicago, Illinois, United States.They scored a regional hit on the Acme label [3] with the swing-style novelty song "The Curly Shuffle" in 1983, a tribute to Curly Howard of The Three Stooges. [2]
"The Curly Shuffle" is a novelty song written by Chicago based singer and musician Peter Quinn as an homage to The Three Stooges film comedy team. It was initially recorded by Quinn's group Jump 'n the Saddle Band, and first released in late 1983.
Curly's legend far outlived him when the otherwise-obscure country-pop Jump 'n the Saddle Band scored one of the biggest novelty hits of the 1980s with their 1983 single, "The Curly Shuffle". The video featured some of Curly's best scenes. One band member claimed they watched hundreds of hours' worth of Three Stooges films to find the right clips.
Stoogemania was made in an attempt to cash in on the Three Stooges' resurgence in popularity during the 1980s, thanks to syndication and the hit novelty song "The Curly Shuffle" by Jump 'n the Saddle Band. The film experienced a brief theatrical release and was poorly received by critics.
In 1983, Burchall hit the pop charts again with the Jump 'N the Saddle Band's novelty song hit, "The Curly Shuffle". The Del-Vetts, however, fell into obscurity until the release of the Nuggets and Pebbles series in the late 1990s, when several of their tracks were included on the compilation albums .
Jump 'n the Saddle Band, Jump 'n the Saddle Band (Atlantic, 1984) Pete Minger, Look to the Sky (Concord Jazz, 1993) Terry Gibbs & Buddy DeFranco, Chicago Fire (Contemporary, 1987) Terry Gibbs, 92 Years Young (Whaling City Sound, 2017) Randy Stonehill, Paradise Sky (Stonehillian Music, 2008) Cy Touff & Sandy Mosse, Tickle Toe (Delmark, 2008)
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