The hambone redux

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 14 16:20:20 UTC 2008


HIS real name of Delecta Clark?

Add to the "how could they do that to their baby?" file.

m a m

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On tonight's episode of The Simpsons, Lurline Lumpkin's father did the
> hambone in accompaniment to his daughter's singing.
>
> For the more mature among us: did any y'all know that Dee Clark, the
> R&B singer who had a hit in 1961 with "Raindrops," was, as a child
> under his, one of The Hambone Kids of 1952?
>
> -Wilson
>

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