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Title of routine

The article linked on this page refers to the title solely as "Slowly I Turned", not "Slowly I turn".

Didn't this routine also appear on an episode of "I Love Lucy"?

And "The Carol Burnett Show"?


Just added "Abbott & Costello In Society" to the list of notable appearances, but I'm not 100% sure it qualifies. As I remember that was a similar sketch, but it wasn't just one person, it was *everyone* that Costello met on the street, who reacted violently to the words "Susquehana Hat Company" and "Beagle Street". Not certain if they actually used the words "Slowly I turned" or not, without re-watching the movie, but it was basically the same sketch.

In '99 (I think), the Smithsonian Institution, as part of their "Festival of American Folklife", recreated a medicine show including many original, 80+-year-old medicine show performers (including Harmonica Frank Floyd). (This event was the origin of the film "[Free Show Tonight][1]".) I saw one performance; one of the comedy bits seemed very familiar, a sort of proto-"Slowly I Turned". Afterwards, I chatted with some of the performers and asked about that bit, if they knew where it came from. The response was that they didn't really, but that it went back to the 1820s at least; I could easily see some variety of that bit being part of stret performances going back hundreds of years. In any case, there's no way Joey Faye or Goldman "originated" that bit. What they may have done is adapted this early "folk" version into a formal burlesque routine. (Much of burlesque and many of of Abbott & Costello's routines were derived from earlier, pre-burlesque bits, the comedy equivalents of "Froggy Went A-Courtin'".)

I also seem to recall "Slowly I Turned" showing up in an episode of "Laverne & Shirley". 75.36.163.86 01:53, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking for " Slowly I crept... " etc, which I ( thought I ) remembered from A & C, esp at the end of the film where the characters are in a car, hence no chance of escape ! Haven't seen it since childhood, John H. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.63.86.128 (talk) 10:24, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If keeping the references in music and pop culture include also the 1980s dance track "Native Love" by Divine

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