RE: [Harp-L] Robert Klein

["Jimbeau Harp" <jimbeauharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Laughton, Bob" <LaughtonB@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Just looked at a Robert Klein CD (U.S.A. comedian) listed on eBay, and 
> remembering that he was a pretty good harp player.
>
> I remember many years ago seeing him do a number on the telly (was it Sat 
> Nite Live?) wearing a bandana on his head, fronting a little band. He was 
> playing riffs and keeping time jerking his right knee emphatically. After a 
> couple of choruses, he pulled his deadpan mug up to the mike and started 
> the vocal:
>
> "I cayn't... stop... mah leg..."

Robert Klein developed a whole routine in the early 1970s using the 
harmonica, which he did on the Tonight show and other popular TV programs of 
the day. I remember one bit where he was talking about how hospitals could 
use harmonicas put in their patients' mouth. After jokes involving him 
gasping and sputtering through a harp, the big punchline was that, if the 
pateints died, they would expire with their last breathe on a nice 
harmonious major chord! Hilarious!

I heard an interview with Robert Klein yesterday on PBS and he was talking 
about a new CD he had coming out of his classic material. I immediately 
thought of that skit and hoped it was on it.

Jimbeau

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