ATDTDA (17): Happy Jack La Foam (477.23)

[Henry]

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The clip on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQwm2ZWzb7o 

The Who: Happy Jack

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http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4241  
Pete Townshend based the "Happy Jack" character on the strange and
not-too-intelligent guys who used to hang around English beaches and play
with the kids. Townshend would play on the Isle Of Man beach as a kid.
(Rather like the Jefferson Airplane's "Lather." [hm])
This was featured on The Who's second album, A Quick One. In the US, the
album title was changed to "Happy Jack" due to record company fears that the
original title was a reference to sex. 

In 1966 The Who were slotted to film a television series in much the same
vein as the Monkees series. For the pilot episode, the band filmed a clip to
go along with this song. It featured the 4 of them as robbers attempting to
rob a safe. They get distracted, however, by a cake sitting close by and
wackiness ensues as The Who smear themselves from head to foot with
frosting. Finally a cop busts in and foils their plan, chasing them out of
the room. The show never aired, but the clip can now be found in the Kids
Are Alright DVD. The clip is light years ahead of its time for what other
bands of the '60s were doing. http://tinyurl.com/2c9dvr 
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For what it's worth, there a town in Arizona named "Happy Jack." [hm]

http://tinyurl.com/ysaq7m  

Henry Mu
http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm