Any Recordings of Harpo Marx Speaking?

[Jack Keck]

I did a search, but I thought that if there was a recording available, someone here would know about it.

[mcow1]

http://www.harpomarx.net/talking.html

[reechie]

Make sure you really, really wanna hear Harpo out of character before you listen. Like knowing where the splice is in "Strawberry Fields Forever", it may change the way you see Harpo forever. ;)

[DjBryan]

Thanks for the Harpo page

[Evan L]

Listen to the brothers singing "Sweet Adeline" at the beginning of Monkey Business. You'll notice it is four part harmony. That's Harpo's voice at the very end.

Evan

[mcow1]

Listen to the brothers singing "Sweet Adeline" at the beginning of Monkey Business. You'll notice it is four part harmony. That's Harpo's voice at the very end.

Evan

From HarpoMarx.net
In "Monkey Business" in the scene when they were all singing "Sweet Adeline" in barrels, some music experts say they can hear a four part harmony, while others say they can only hear three.
There is a great debate over this one.

[Jack Keck]

See, I KNEW you guys would know....

Thanks,

[Evan L]

yeah, mccow1, I read that after posting. I still think it's him singing at the end...


Evan

[LesPaul666]

http://www.harpomarx.net/talking.html


That clip about the brothel was classic.:laugh:

[Mark]

Thanks for the Harpo page

Ditto. :righton:

[JBStephens]

George Burns once asked Harpo Marx why he had adopted so many children. Harpo replied, "I want one kid for every window in the house, so that I can look back and see them waving to me as I leave."

Pretty eloquent for a man who made his living by not speaking.

[louisville]

A recording of his retirement speech would be my holy grail. I hope that someday one will turn up in somebody's attic...

[bencasey]

A recording of his retirement speech would be my holy grail. I hope that someday one will turn up in somebody's attic...

You're talking about when he did that show with Allan Sherman and then said that he was done? I've never heard of that being recorded.

[Frodis]

No I think he's referring to the "speech that never ended". The story goes that he was known as the silent Marx Brother but when he started talking during this speech it went on forever.

Groucho used to say when people asked him if Harpo could really speak he'd reply "take him out on the golf course and watch him miss a putt by that much and you'll hear how much he speaks!" :laugh:

[louisville]

You're talking about when he did that show with Allan Sherman and then said that he was done? I've never heard of that being recorded.

Nope. Also known as the "speech that never ended", with the crowd allegedly in stitches over the fact that he would not stop talking. I never said it was recorded, I just hope that someday somebody comes up with this as a rare find. A man can dream, can't he?

[-Alan]

Harpo Speaks! (http://www.amazon.com/Harpo-Speaks-Marx/dp/0879100362) is highly recommended.

[guy incognito]

Listen to the brothers singing "Sweet Adeline" at the beginning of Monkey Business. You'll notice it is four part harmony. That's Harpo's voice at the very end.


Nah, that can't be right...it doesn't sound anything like Maurice Chevalier, and everybody knows Harpo's singing voice is a dead ringer for Chevalier's. ;)

[Frodis]

:laughup:


"If a nightingale, could sing like you..."

[Jamie Tate]

A recording of his retirement speech would be my holy grail. I hope that someday one will turn up in somebody's attic...

When I read about that I was hoping there was a long lost recording of it somewhere, like you said in someone's attic.