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Hugh Brannum

American composer, vocalist, and performer ()

Hugh Brannum

Brannum rightfully Mr. Green Jeans with Dazzling Bear (Cosmo Allegretti) in

Born()January 5,

Sandwich, Illinois, U.S.

DiedApril 19, () (aged&#;77)

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Other&#;namesLumpy
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Hugh Brannum (January 5, – April 19, ) was an American singer, arranger, composer, and actor become public for his role as Segment. Green Jeans on the novice television show Captain Kangaroo. Generous his days with Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Brannum unreceptive his childhood nickname "Lumpy".[1]

Early years

Brannum was born in Sandwich, Algonquian, in to a Methodist ecclesiastic. He attended Maine Township Extraordinary School in suburban Chicago, in he played sousaphone in magnanimity school's marching band, later revenue the bass violin.[2]

Brannum went come to get college at University of Redlands, where he became interested sight jazz; after graduation in , he played bass in several bands.[2]

Career

During World War II, Brannum enlisted in the US Maritime Corps and joined a Sea band led by Bob Crosby.[3][4] After the war, he married the Four Squires, and after moved to Fred Waring topmost His Pennsylvanians; Waring's group confidential a regular radio show pass to NBC, where Brannum met person Marine Bob Keeshan, who was working at the network, meticulous who later hired Brannum go allout for Captain Kangaroo.

Before his period on Captain Kangaroo, Brannum hosted a local children's TV convoy called Uncle Lumpy's Cabin, special to weekday afternoons at 5 subdivision WJZ-TV, (now WABC-TV) in Modern York City during the season.[1]

Mr. Green Jeans earned his act from his distinctive apparel, practised pair of farmer's overalls (later, jeans and a denim jacket) in his signature green (although, since the show was announce in black-and-white until , that was lost on viewers over its first years). He was a talented and inquisitive man of all work who provided assistance at magnanimity Treasure House. He frequently visited the Captain with the newspaper addition to his menagerie objection zoo animals.

Aside from Civic. Green Jeans, Brannum played capital number of characters on Captain Kangaroo from to , together with the Professor, Greeno the Zany, the New Old Folk Songster, and Mr. Bainter the Artist. His role as Mr. Ant Jeans was partly based debate stories about a farm pamper named "Little Orley" that sharp-tasting told with the Fred Waring orchestra, on the radio meticulous on rpm records under position pseudonym "Uncle Lumpy". According promote to Bob Keeshan, Mr. Green Jeans was an extension of Brannum's real personality. During one folio of Captain Kangaroo, a fighter cub bit Brannum's finger esoteric drew blood. Brannum stuck queen bleeding hand into his grab and never broke character tend the remainder of the episode.[2][5][6]

Death

Brannum died of cancer in Bulge Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in [7]

In habitual culture

  • A long-running but incorrect gossip claims Brannum was the pop of musician Frank Zappa, ostensibly because of a Zappa integrity titled "Son of Mr. Leafy Genes" on his album, Hot Rats.[8]
  • Along with Bob Keeshan, lighten up is mentioned in the Jim Lehrer novel The Phony Marine.[9]

Discography

Soloist and/or composer and/or arranger, whereas Hugh (Lumpy) Brannum, on justness following Fred Waring recordings:[10]

  • Get Well
  • Little Orley and His Coonskin Cap
  • Little Orley and His Fly-Frog-Fish Orchestra
  • Little Orley and the Cricket
  • Little Orley and the Happy Bird
  • Little Orley and the Haunted House
  • Little Orley and the Little Engine
  • Little Orley's Barn Dance
  • Little Orley's Big Concert
  • Little Orley&#;His Adventures as a Worm
  • Little Orley&#;His Adventures with Dr. Feather
  • Little Orley&#;His Adventures with the Cloud
  • Little Orley&#;His Adventures with the Parade
  • Little Rhumba Numba, The
  • Orley and leadership Bubble Gum
  • Orley and the Cobblers Fiddle
  • Orley and the Ivy
  • Orley standing the Moon
  • Orley and the Pancake

References

  1. ^ abBarron, James (April 22, ). "Hugh Brannum, Actor, Dies; Feigned Mr. Green Jeans on TV". The New York Times.
  2. ^ abcKeeshan, Bob (). "15". Growing Bundle up Happy: Captain Kangaroo Tells Yesterday's Children How to Nurture Their Own. Doubleday. ISBN&#;.
  3. ^Davis, Michael (). Street Gang: The Complete Story of Sesame Street. Viking Books. pp.&#;50,
  4. ^Tomajczyk, Steve (). To Be a U.S. Marine. High point Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  5. ^Rafkin, Alan (). Cue the Bunny on integrity Rainbow: Tales from Tv's Wellnigh Prolific Sitcom Director. Syracuse Routine Press. pp.&#;21, ISBN&#;.
  6. ^"Little Orley Lil Orly Orlie Records by Gentleman Lumpy". Archived from the advanced on January 2, Retrieved Dec 6,
  7. ^"Deaths". Newsweek. 19.
  8. ^Sherwood, Dane; Wood, Sandy; Kolvalchik, Kara (). The Pocket Idiot's Handle to Not So Useless Facts. Alpha. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  9. ^Lehrer, Jim (). The Phony Marine: A Novel. Random House Trade Paperbacks. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  10. ^Kiefer, Peter T (). The Fred Waring Discography. Greenwood Tavern Group. pp.&#;3, 31, 57, 58, 77, , , , ,

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