Is it remotely possible that Sha Na Na might have been good?

Or motorcycle jackets for that matter.

http://www.dickdestiny.com/band.jpg

Did Bowzer influence the sartorial taste of the guy on the right? No -- the carnies at the Allentown fairgrounds plus me showing them the backpages of old Rock Scene mags did.

in some ways they remind me of hee haw

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, and almost started a TS: Sha Na Na vs Hee Haw thread

Hee Haw in a landslide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NyK3df0xaw

it seems from watching this that tv funnyman david schneider has a past i wasn't aware of.

Pffft You Were Gone is a timeless classic.

Hee Haw in a landslide.

u crazy

again

for years my dad thought kramer (from seinfeld) was a guy in sha-na-na. i believed him for awhile too!

gabb beat me to the punch re sha na na's academic pedigree. i was a bit surprised when i found out that they're a bunch of ivy leaguers.

lol @ tracer's dad.

it's still pretty amusing to think of michael richards doing his "battle boy" schtick on sha na na's prime-time TV show.

I did see some 20/20 special about a guy who faked being in Sha Na Na to bilk people out of their money at mall appearances. Turns out the imposter had escaped from jail and was lying low underneath this guise for years.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Holy shit, the list of members is enormous. Lots of room for Michael Richards and the baby-killing guy on there with nobody noticing. Room for you, too, fellas - go to it.

Bought a Sha Na Na album (Sha Na Now!) for a buck at a garage sale today. The cover was worth it, the music.... not so much. But love this thread.

Look at this shit (1975):
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s89975.jpg
Is it even remotely possible that Sha Na Na weren't a direct inspiration for The Village People?

one of the best thread titles ever

A while ago, fiddling around at Colindale newspaper library, I read the Guardian's round-up of 1970 in pop. Guy who wrote it - Geoffrey Cannon, maybe? Can't recall - rounded up the Velvets, Joni, Neil Young, and then concluded that the hands-down best album of the year was by Sha Na Na. Wonder if he stands by that.

A larger image for better WTFs:
http://webspace.webring.com/people/bd/divamagenta/snnow.jpg

Guy far left looks like he's just been kicked in the nuts. There's an underage Henry The Eighth upper right. And if you look carefully behind the bronzed fella lower right, there's a phantom pair of legs behind him, that belong to no torso.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/1987NWA-PanicZone12front.jpg

http://www.tampabay.com/music/woodstock-was-a-myth-sha-na-nas-henry-gross-who-played-before-hendrix-wants-to-bust-it-20190807/

“I submit to you that Sha Na Na should have been one of the first people, if there were a legitimate Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to go into it,” he said. “If you want entertainment, the original Sha Na Na cannot be beat.”

Sorry Henry, sorry Chuck--that is some kind of ludicrous. (Just posting this is taking the bait, I know--he's probably half-kidding.) I do like the idea that Sha Na Na was a people.

Maybe he just never got over the dog dying.

Great article

https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/sep_oct08/features1?fbclid=IwAR0cYnFspm0ZlLdPKPqd6x_ssKgBLkZ0dqTzqScrFY1rR7fMSsW0WV8tlVY

I am a fan of their 1972 single "Bounce in Your Buggy," which sounds more like the Archies than Danny and the Juniors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7nQtuWuY9Y