Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker; August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and actor. His best remembered roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Tennessee Steinmetz in The Love Bug (1968), and Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989).
Early life
Hackett was born in Brooklyn, New York to Anna (née Geller) and Philip Hacker, an upholsterer and part-time inventor. He grew up on 54th and 14th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn, across from Public School 103 (now a yeshiva). He graduated from New Utrecht High School in 1942.
While still a student, he began performing in nightclubs in the Catskills Borscht Belt resorts as "Butch Hacker". He appeared first at the Golden Hotel in Hurleyville, New York, and he claimed he did not get one single laugh. He enlisted in the United States Army during World War II and served for three years in an anti-aircraft battery.
Career
Early career
Hackett's first job after the war was at the Pink Elephant, a Brooklyn club. It was here that he changed his name from Leonard Hacker to Buddy Hackett. He made appearances in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and continued to perform in the Catskills. He acted on Broadway, in Lunatics and Lovers, where Max Liebman saw him and put him in two television specials.
Podcasts:
Buddy Hackett
ALBUMS
- The Little Mermaid: Greatest Hits released: 2013
- The Music Man released: 2012
- Celebrities at Their Worst, Volume 2 released: 2003
- The American Comedy Box 1915 - 1994 But Seriously ... Vol. 4 released:
- The Original Chinese Waiter released:
The Little Mermaid: Greatest Hits
Released 2013- Fathoms Below (From The Little Mermaid; Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Part Of Your World
- Under The Sea
- Part Of Your World (Reprise) (From The Little Mermaid; Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Poor Unfortunate Souls (From The Little Mermaid; Soundtrack Version)
- Les Poissons (The Little Mermaid / Soundtrack Version)
- Kiss The Girl
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- One Dance
- Down To The Sea
- Iko Iko
- The Scuttle Strut
- The Real Thing (Kiss The Girl)
- Part of Your World
The Music Man
Released 2012- Overture / Rock Island / Iowa Stubborn
- Ya Got Trouble
- Piano Lesson / If You Don't Mind My Saying So
- Goodnight My Someone
- Ya Got Trouble / Seventy Six Trombones
- Sincere
- The Sadder But Wiser Girl
- Pick a Little, Talk a Little
- Marian the Librarian
- Being in Love
- Gary, Indiana
- The Wells Fargo Wagon
- Lida Rose / Will I Ever Tell You?
- Gary, Indiana (Reprise)
- Shipoopi
- Till There Was You
- Goodnight My Someone / Seventy Six Trombones
- Shirley Jones Open End Interview (1962)
- Robert Preston Interview Spot (1962)
- Shirley Jones Interview Spot (1962)
Born: 1924-08-31
Died: 2003-06-30
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by Bathgate
Life Is Hard
by: Bathgate[Intro:]
Shit!
Sound like Flex touched that joint, alright!
Hey yo!
Some acting like I'm nice too, Shawty!
War, war, war, war!
Gates, gates, war, war
I'm just rapping up, niggas!
Frat boy, mother fucker!
Yeah, aha! Harlem, yeah!
Uh, uh, uh!
Murder, death, kill for the peso
Fuck a plea, cut this boy if I say so
Another nigga talk talk, it's OK, though
Till I send that ass to... with a halo
I'm trying hard not to kill niggas
It's like a full time job not to kill niggas
No fake friends loyal to my real niggas, yeah
No apologies, fuck! how you feel niggas? yeah
And I'm smiling at your bitch though
Whole clique though, cause she feeling niggas
Cut from my cloth no hell figure
I'm from thirty, thirty aims, I'm a villain nigga
Paper touch, let's bill, nigga
I need a vow, though he might be a.. nigga
It's crazy when you love them like your own son
And like Marvin Gaye's pops let 'em whole won!
Hook:
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
Death gotta be easy, death gotta be easy!
Death gotta be easy, death gotta be easy!
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
Even your sling crack rock, we got it, we can... shot
Father save me, this is what they gave me, yeah!
I never snitched, just turn shit the gravy
Yeah! Crazy! Give it all just to live and ball
Nigga, get a bigger small to your digit car!
Da, I recall every minute sure
But it's fall whoever fall, my vision fall!
Case is unsolved, do the every in the stove
As a... just revolve to another more!
God, a mother's pain, turn it to the base
Throw it, holler, get it nice and leaves a bitter taste!
Uh, she asked God just to give her grace
Preacher man told her once, gotta give it faith!
But the lifestyle we live, be a nigga's faith
For my son, all I ask, “keep a nigga safe!”
To my future's present, bought a new weapon
In case God hear a nigga late!
Hook:
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
Death gotta be easy, death gotta be easy!
Death gotta be easy, death gotta be easy!
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
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