Phil Harris
Phil Harris
Wonga Phillip "Phil" Harriswas an American comedian, jazz musician, and singer. He found much success as an orchestra leader, and was a pioneer in radio situation comedy, first with Jack Benny, and then in a series in which he co-starred with his wife, singer-actress Alice Faye, for eight years. Harris is also noted for his voice performances in animated films. He played Baloo the bear in The Jungle Book. Thomas O'Malley in The Aristocats, and Little John in Robin Hood...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth24 June 1904
CityLinton, IN
CountryUnited States of America
He offered to put us under contract right then, and from what I can remember, we didn't hesitate to sign. After all, what did we have to lose?
It was an unfortunate situation, but with the things that we have going on at the golf course and the way peoples' work schedules are, we just couldn't play, ... We had a tournament out there yesterday morning, a scramble, and we started getting water on the greens, and we let them finish up, but the course was just unplayable.
They want us to run a Lincoln program on a Yugo budget,
It's not about getting houses built. It's about people.
I don't think that we met prior to our senior year, but we were probably in some of the same classes together without realizing it.
The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.
If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of 'So Blue'.
He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.
I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.
We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.
Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.
The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.
We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's.