FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE
Created on 14/02/2008Latest update on 03/11/2023
Artist: Irv Carroll Orch.
Author: Larry Wynn/Jerry Bresler
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1941
Vocal: Al Jennings, Irv Carroll & chorus.
Covers:
- 1942:
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five [opening line: "I wanna tell you a story from way back, so truck on down and dig me Jack" was already used by Jordan two years before in his June Tenth Jamboree]
- 1981:
- 1983:
- 1984:
- 1990:
Reginald Royal-Luico Hopper-Brian Kirk-Reggie Pittman-Gregory Charles Royal & Mark Gross [in musical Five Guys Named Moe, first staged in Theatre Royal Stratford East, before moving to London and in '92 to Broadway]
There was this Scottish Canadian pop group called Five Guys Named Moe. They were only four to begin with, one of them a girl.
