In Animal Crackers Chico plays a song that starts out sounding a lot like “Sugar in the Morning.” In fact he gets stuck in it, with Groucho saying things like, “If you come near a song, play that instead,” and he responds by saying “I think I went past it.”
In another movie–the one where the four Marx bros. are stowaways in kippered herring barrels on a ship–Harpo plays the whole of that song, and it is NOT “Sugar in the Morning.” Anybody know what it is?
The song in Monkey Business is “I’m Daffy Over You.” You can see and hear a clip here.
Chico: “I can’t think of the end of this song.”
Groucho:"*I * can’t think of anything else."
In one of the movies he played some of “Collegiate”, which I can’t find on the web but which I sang myself in the 1970s for a 1920s-style musicale in elementary school. I remember it started “Collegiate! Collegiate! Yes we are collegiate!” and had references to Arrow collars and the Greek alphabet.
Here’s the song–I remembered a girl sitting next to him on the bench but I thought it was one of the Italian immigrant kids from MONKEY BUSINESS. Instead it was Thelma Todd in HORSEFEATHERS, who looks nothing like an Italian immigrant kid. :o
Chico starts playing it at the 5:12 mark in this cool compilation.
My attitude toward Chico’s songs is about the same as Groucho’s: I feel that I can go into the lobby until it blows over.
However, other Marxists are more compulsive.
On this Marx Brothers page you’ll find an annotated list of every song associated with the brothers.
Not me, Chico’s piano performances are always favorites of mine- in all the movies.
That’s my attitude toward’s Zeppo’s singing.
I reported the previous post. greyhopper revived a nine-year old thread to plagiarize Exapno Mapcase’s post. I’m not sure what his/her/its game is.