dir: Joshua Logan
SOUTH CHICAGO
MAD #71 June 1962
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Mort Drucker
Not being familiar with the musical or the movie, I doubt this sticks to it much other than parodying the songs, considering they're all out of sequence, but here it is. It takes place during World War II and is about a nurse marrying a soldier stationed there, while another soldier falls in love with a native Pacific Islander.
The parody is sort of updated, it's about Chicago during the prohibition era, placing it earlier, but updated in that it features caricatures of Bobby Darin, Elvis Presley, Rick Nelson, Dick Clark, Perry Como, Connie Francis, Paul Anka, Bobby Rydell, and Dino Crocetti.
Some people have told me that as kids they never read the song parodies because they didn't know the songs (I'm not sure why they didn't just make up their own melodies). The entire movie is above so you can fast forward to them if you feel the need to hear the songs. Sorry about some of the scenes being blurry or discolored but my guess is it was so the downloader could elude copyright police.
“Bloody Mary is the Girl I Love” @ 5:34
“Wonderful Guy” @59:10
“I'm Gonna Was That Man Right Out of My Hair” @ 50:25
“There is Nothing Like a Dame” @9:34
I don't think Ricky Nelson is in this; I think you may be mistaking Fabian for him. (For reference, Drucker drew them both a few issues later in "The Rock 'n Roll Senior Citizens' Problem".)
ReplyDeleteAlong with Fabian, I think Darin's other henchmen are Paul Anka and Tommy Sands. That would leave Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell as Elvis' henchmen.
For something that's actually about the musical, here's Forbidden Broadway on the 2008 revival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd4JN6veuR4
About 2 years after this article was published (June 1964), there was a movie musical about Prohibition-era Chicago: "Robin and his Seven Hoods" starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, and Bing Crosby and featuring Peter Falk and Victor Buono. Also cameo by Edward G Robinson.
ReplyDeleteIntroduced "My Kind of Town" and "Mr. Booze"(as seen on Family Guy).