Swingin' the Alphabet Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Swingin' the Alphabet Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Swingin' the Alphabet is a novelty song sung by The Three Stooges (Moe

Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) in their 1938 short film, Violent

Is the Word for Curly. It is the only full-length song performed by

the trio in their short films, and the only time they mimed to their

own pre-recorded soundtrack. It contains a censor-baiting line; when

the singers start ringing the changes on the letter “F†it seems

as though an obscene word will result, but it does not.For their 1959

album The Nonsense Songbook, the Stooges re-recorded the song

(retitled as "The Alphabet Song") with Moe, Larry and Curly-Joe DeRita

(filling in for Curly Howard, who died in 1952). The letters "G", "J",

"M" and the "Curly's a dope" line were omitted, and new lyrics

featuring the letters "N," "P," "R," "S," "T," "V," and "Z" were

added.In 2005, Stooge film historian Richard Finegan identified the

composer of the song as Septimus Winner (1827â€"1902), who had

originally published it in 1875 as "The Spelling Bee". Septimus' own

version, though, appears to have been based on an earlier version

called "Ba-Be-Bi-Bo-Bu", which has a centuries-old tradition.The

lyrics of Septimus Winner's "Spelling Bee" (a.k.a. "Ba Be Bi Bo Bu")

were slightly different. A number of schools like Harvard University

used this as one of their traditional songs, which itself may have

originated centuries earlier in typesetting, as a very similar song or

chant was used to help train apprentice printers in the structure of

language, a tradition being described as "ancient" even as early as

1740:
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