Sha Na Na | Woodstock Wiki | Fandom The group's image and style were unabashedly anachronistic, as they covered '50s pop and doo wop standards, slicked their hair back in the greaser fashion, and dressed in flamboyant '50s costumes. McBride left the band in 1980, before taping of the fourth series began, and was replaced by Guitar Glenn Jordan. In his "Bowzer" persona, Bauman became instantly recognizable for his "greaser" clothes and hair, his muscular pose with his arm, and his catchphrase "Grease for Peace!". 11/8/2009 2:30 AM PT. Bowzer once stunned a fourth season audience by announcing dramatically at the end of one episode, "This is the last Sha Na Na show you will ever see." He then launches into an explanation that "me and the boys (sic) have been giving it a lot of thought, and we've decided that it's time to move on". Hendrix played. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works Baumans Sha Na Na character, Bowzer, was a greaser in a muscle shirt. Baker retired from Sha Na Na in 2000 but remained musically active, performing with local band the Spellbinders. Greene reached fame as partof Sha Na Na, the group known for Tears on My Pillow and Born to Hand-Jive. Both songs were on the soundtrack of the 1978 film Grease, along with other tracks performed by the group includingThose Magic Changes, Hound Dog, Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay and Blue Moon.. Bauman's popular Sha Na Na character, "Bowzer" (sometimes called "Bowzer J. Bowzer"), was a gangly, slender-armed greaser in a muscle shirt. Bowzer from Sha Na Na and Arthur Fonzerelli Paul Newman's half Jewish, Goldie Hawn's half too Put them together, what a fine looking Jew! They wore gold lam or leather jackets and greased their hair back like the Fifties rock n rollers, but their act was as much send-up as homage. Bauman tours extensively with his Bowzer and the Stingrays group at fairs, amusement parks, cruise ships, malt shoppes and conventions all over the world. Join Mike Pesca as he answers that for you LIVE. Mike Pesca hosted Slates daily podcast The Gist from 2014 - 2021. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree 3. At the time, he was eighteen years old, performing as one of the founding members of Sha Na Na. Originally formed as an a cappella group at Columbia University in 1968, Sha Na Na had taken their name from a line in the Silhouettes hit Get a Job and still introduced themselves as coming from the streets of New York. (Although Jon "Bowzer" Bauman was the most identifiable face of the group, he did not join until 1970.) What type of argument is a modest proposal? Arts . With guests ranging from Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Del Shannon to Paul Anka, Chubby Checker and Jan & Dean via Milton Berle, Ethel Merman and Zsa Zsa Gabor, the series proved a hit and went into syndication. ABOUT BOWZER | Bowzer