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Criminal background singers?

Gorgon Heap

Gorgon Heap

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Just took another look at the Muppet Show Fan Club newsletter, Volume 1, Number 1, and on page 3 was a small article on background singers. Apparently Lou Rawls' backup singers on "Groovy People", nameless in the show, were called The Sleeze Bros. Quoted in the article, "they have records... but not the kind you put on a turntable!"

They were probably petty criminals growing up in a bad neighborhood with rap sheets in their teenage years, maybe some brawls on tour.

Crazy, huh? I just love how they add little details like this, that Lou Rawls' seemingly innocent background singers were in reality probably a foam version of the Dead End Kids.

David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole
 
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