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(New page: Standard old black bluesman in the B. B. King mold from the 1983 comedy [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085551 Get Crazy]. A running gag in the film has every band at the new year's concert pla...)
 
 
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Standard old black bluesman in the B. B. King mold from the 1983 comedy [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085551 Get Crazy]. A running gag in the film has every band at the new year's concert playing a version of his hit, "Hootchie Cootchie Man." He takes a moment to eulogize a deceased fellow bluesman, Howling Blind Luther Washington, whose name is likely a parody of real bluesmen Howlin' Wolf and Blind Lemon Jefferson. See also [[Auden]], [[Nada]], [[Reggie Wanker]]
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Standard old black bluesman in the B. B. King mold from the 1983 comedy film ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085551/combined Get Crazy]''. A running gag in the film has every band at the new year's eve concert playing a version of his hit, "Hootchie Cootchie Man".  
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Played by Bill Henderson.
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He takes a moment onstage to eulogize a deceased fellow bluesman, [[Howling Blind Luther Washington]].
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[[Category:1983]]
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[[Category:Blues]]
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[[Category:Get Crazy]]

Latest revision as of 12:47, 28 March 2018

Standard old black bluesman in the B. B. King mold from the 1983 comedy film Get Crazy. A running gag in the film has every band at the new year's eve concert playing a version of his hit, "Hootchie Cootchie Man".

Played by Bill Henderson.

He takes a moment onstage to eulogize a deceased fellow bluesman, Howling Blind Luther Washington.