Hot on the heels of Betty Co-Ed, we have another collegiate cut-up from 1930 - Football Freddy!
Harry Reser and Tom Stacks are back with The Six Jumping Jacks' record of "Football Freddy" on Brunswick:
I keep saying it, but I love those Harry Reser records with Tom Stacks! They're both one-of-a-kind!
A real character of the era who was just as seemingly unreal as Betty or Freddy was trumpeter Jack Purvis, a terrific musician but a less than upright citizen!
In any event, Jack is featured on this Columbia recording of "Football Freddy" credited to Ted Wallace and his Campus Boys (actually led by entrepreneur Ed Kirkeby who also provides the vocal):
Also very fun!
Apparently the idea for the song "Football Freddy" may have come from the gridiron exploits of Alabama All-American Fred Sington, but maybe not!
Fred came a little after Johnny Mack Brown at Alabama, so he could be BMOC as a football and baseball star without competition from Johnny!
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