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| Text on Button | HEE-HEE HO-HO HOO-HOO RED BUTTONS |
| Image Description | Photograph of Red Buttons wearing a winter hat in the center with white text and stars surrounding on red background. |
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| Curl Text | EMPRESS SPEC CO. 22 JONES ST., N.Y. 14 |
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| Additional Information | Red Buttons was born as Aaron Chwatt in New York in 1919. He got a job as an entertaining bellhop at a Bronx tavern at age 16. There, the orchestra leader started calling him “Red Buttons” due to his red hair and the bellhop uniform. A stage name was created. Buttons had a movie career from 1944-2005 including The Poseidon Adventure. He had his own TV variety show from 1952-1955. In 1953, he recorded a hit record, “Strange Things are Happening/The Ho-Ho Song.” This artifact misquotes the “The Ho-Ho Song” refrain as actual lyrics list, “Ho-Ho, He-He, Hoo-Hoo.” |
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1953 HITS ARCHIVE: The Ho Ho Song - Red Buttons. YouTube. (2020). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKlA1TIYsPw. Red Buttons. En.wikipedia.org. (2020). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Buttons. |
| Catalog ID | EN0575 |