Thursday, November 13, 2008

Hey Man, Is That.....?



Jon Bauman has been around for decades -- but it seems even longer because his Bowzer character is perpetually set in 1956.

Sha Na Na formed in the late 1960s as a goof. Fun enough -- but an unlikely beginning to forty years of doo-wopping quasi-celebrity.

Who could have forseen Bowzer showing up as the host of the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour in the 1980s ... as a veejay in the early days of VH1 ... as a voice on the Animaniacs in the 1990s ... and still today as a hand-jiving huckster on late-night TV?


Rock and roll will never die. Does that mean Bowzer's career must live forever? 



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