Biff Rose

Paul Conrad "Biff" Rose (born October 15, 1937, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American comedian and singer-songwriter.

Biography

Born in New Orleans, Rose moved to Hollywood where he found a job working as a comedy sketch writer with George Carlin. Among other assignments he wrote for the Mort Sahl TV show. Rose tried his hand as a stand-up comic and eventually began writing songs, performing his own compositions on piano. His piano-playing demonstrated a solid versatility, ranging in style from honky-tonk to lilting melodies, his singing made no pretense of technical accomplishment yet his songs and performances emitted a genuine sweetness that appealed to many in the late 1960s.

Rose recorded his first two records for Tetragrammaton Records. Following the release of 1968's The Thorn in Mrs. Rose's Side, which contained his hit single "Buzz the Fuzz", Rose made 12 appearances on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show from 1968 to 1970. He performed his songs ("Gentle People" and "Myrtle's Pies") on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, He also appeared on American Bandstand, The Merv Griffin Show, The David Frost Show and Hugh Hefner's Playboy After Dark. He was master of ceremonies at the Atlantic City Pop Festival of 1969 and the Atlanta Pop Festival of 1970.

Biff (name)

Biff is a given name, a nickname or part of a stage name.

People

Nickname

  • Biff Byford (born 1951), British lead singer of the heavy metal band Saxon
  • Frank Dunlap (1924-1993), Canadian Football League player
  • James T. Ellison (c. 1861-?), New York City gangster
  • William Grimes (journalist) (born 1950), former magazine writer, culture reporter, theater columnist, restaurant critic, book reviewer and a current obituary writer for The New York Times
  • Biff Henderson (born 1946), American stage manager and television personality on the Late Show with David Letterman
  • Biff Jones (1895-1980), former college football head coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
  • Biff Liff (1919-2015), born Samuel Liff, Tony Award-winning American Broadway manager and producer.
  • Biff McGuire (born 1926), American stage and film actor
  • Biff Rose (born 1937), American comedian and singer-songwriter
  • Biff Schaller (1889-1939), Major League Baseball player
  • Biff Schlitzer (1884-1948), Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Biff (disambiguation)

    Biff may refer to:

    People

  • Biff (name), a given name or nickname (and list of people with that name)
  • Biff (cartoon), British cartoonists
  • Computer-related terms

  • biff, a UNIX mail notification program.
  • BIFF or B1FF, a Usenet/internet pseudonym
  • BIFF, the Binary Interchange File Format, used by Microsoft Excel
  • B1ff, a type of internet slang
  • Film festivals

  • Bakersfield Independent Film Festival
  • Bahamas International Film Festival
  • Beijing International Film Festival
  • Beloit International Film Festival
  • Bergen International Film Festival
  • Berkshire International Film Festival
  • Berlin International Film Festival
  • Bogota International Film Festival
  • Boston International Film Festival
  • Boulder International Film Festival
  • Brisbane International Film Festival
  • Brooklyn International Film Festival, former name of the Brooklyn Film Festival
  • Busan International Film Festival, previously "Pusan International Film Festival"
  • Other uses

  • The Bristol F.2 Fighter of World War I
  • Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters an Islamic militant group based in the Southern Philippines
  • Biff (cartoon)

    Biff is a British cartoon strip, created by Chris Garratt and Mick Kidd, which debuted in 1982 and has appeared in the newspaper The Guardian from 1985 onwards (Biff Weekend ran there weekly for 20 years). The comic originated in a series of single-panel postcards before evolving into multi-panel comic strips. It has also been published in the magazine Viz and since 2001 in the magazine of the Rough Guides.

    The cartoons are notable for their absurd, ironic, satirical and metafictional edge.

    History

    Chris Garratt and Mick Kidd met at grammar school in the 1950s and have collaborated on Biff since the mid-1970s. Chris Garratt creates the artwork (a mixture of collage, found images, tracings and original drawings) and Mick Kidd is responsible for the text. Kidd lives in London and Garratt in the Scilly Isles. They have created their strips and other artwork over the last 30 years by means of phone, post, email and occasional meetings.

    In 2007 Chris Garratt introduced a retrospective of Biff work in these terms:

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Fill Your Heart With Biff Rose

    by: Biff Rose

    When I was a young man
    I ran away from home
    I went to join the circus
    I went to see the cotton candy world
    And make me lots of money
    On my own
    For Molly oh my pretty Molly
    She's waitin' all alone
    Someday soon I will return to her
    Then I made the big time
    Bright lights show biz
    I'm really in the circus
    There's only one thing wrong
    I haven't saved a penny on my own
    For Molly ah my pretty Molly
    But she's writing every day
    Molly understands so it's okay
    Ride a windy boxcar
    And see a thousand children young and old.
    Oh that greasepaint smile can hide you so
    Here comes the carousel
    Guess wich town it is
    Feel the thrill
    Greasepaint covers everything
    But winter's chill
    I'm reading Molly's letter
    The ink is fading and
    The page is turning yellow
    Long ago
    I promised Molly
    Don't you know I
    I will close my eyes
    And go to her




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