Hoolihan and Big Chuck - Dueling Accordions

As requested, classic 70's "Dueling Accordions" skit, a takeoff on "Dueling Banjos" from the movie "Deliverance".

[@cybernettie]

It wouldn't have been Friday night without Big Chuck and Hoolihan! Thanks for the memories.

[@handmadehearts]

LOLOLOLOL... Friday nights with Ghoulardi!

[@BrianKay-i9m]

The laugh at the end was always played when the skits were over. They say you can't go home again. But seeing this makes it pretty darn close😊

[@robrepublic1]

It never got better for a kid growing up in Cleveland than Hoolihan and Big Chuck on a Friday night.

[@twinsmm1]

I grew up on Hoolihan and Big Chuck! Great Stuff!

[@mikelucas3119]

Same here - good memories - that laugh in fixed in my memory!

[@markdrop7127]

Those canned laughs are BURNED into my psyche from a childhood spent lost in Hoolihan and Big Chuck!

[@DavidKozinski]

Love these skit's! Great Cleveland personalities!

[@voodosforever]

Went to my best friend's😊 house to watch Big Chuck and Little John, after Hoolihan left. The Ghoul on Saturday nights. You will never see such classic TV fare again.

[@lilimarlene7813]

great memory of Cleveland in the 70s

[@scruffy1106]

I lived in Goosetown back then and went to Sacred Heart .I played drums and sang polish songs just down the street at Aetna Café with Ronnie Mistak and his brother I was 7or 8. every time I see this I crack up. The Polka Varietes take off is really funny too.

[@teddyleather9079]

parama best peroigies!!

[@robinhenderson3193]

Lord, the Friday nights fixing Jiffy Pop popcorn and cherry Kool-Aid, to watch Big Chuck and Lil'John...if I remember, it was on WJW out of Cleveland, something about a giant gorilla on a WJW letter sign, and the music starting"Here we go again." I'm 67, and still remember that. Good times.....yep.

[@Thefrankiepoo]

As an accordion player who is currently working on an arrangement for two or more accordions (preferably minimum of 2 in the lead) I found this to be hilarious!!! At first wondering why an accomplished player would be using such an old, tiny instrument, when he pulled it apart I burst out laughing - this was very well done!!!!! Great stuff!!!!

[@budlistar5312]

Grew up in Akron but moved out of state in 72. Thanks for the memories. Tulsa station did have the Unfilmy Can Festival with Gaylord Sartain and Gary Busey so didn’t get away from crazy altogether thank goodness. And I do have a Ghoolardi T shirt still.

[@Juan321C]

Miss those days...and now I'm a father of 3 and grandfather of 1!

[@BobLovesKaren]

It’s a little known fact that John Boorman saw this skit and had to have it in the movie. 😂

[@dancingtrout6719]

agree

[@michealsiemer4281]

I think l only saw them once when l was a kid. I lived Indiana and we were visiting in Cleveland. I never watched Ghoulardi, either. In 1972 or '73 we were in Cleveland again and l saw the Ghoul, who instantly became my King and Leader. The movie was "The Brain That Would Not Die."

[@mooshhhh]

This is the best.

[@romantemniuk9881]

Good times.....

[@chuckp8705]

This is classic. The show use to have pizza eating contests too, if I'm remembering correctly.

[@SELAHPAUSE]

You are correct mush mouth

[@randyjobes8930]

Then they brought in the dog contestant...nobody could beat the dog...lol

[@therling]

Also notice the white socks and "flood pants."

[@teddyleather9079]

pollacks man pollacks!! lol!!

[@getlostyougoofball]

Absolute staples of mid-century Cleveland attire by men of a certain ethnicity.

[@terrillschneider3778]

I miss that stuff up here in Michigan

[@markshogan2642]

Between these guys and their predecessor Ghoulardi, we all had a lot of laughs.

[@kathysobczyk5377]

God life was good! We laughed and had fun!

[@macrosense]

thanks a lot. this is one of the greatest things ever.

[@3bhui]

Good guy in white, bad guy in black. :o) 'Theme from Belligerence' (obviously a take-off on the movie Deliverance and its banjo duel which was popular in that era, 1972) Accordion is misspelled as 'accordian'. The same accordion that falls apart was used by a child named Carl Ruskin on the Certain Ethnic Varieties sketch.

[@michaelwalling2947]

In the great American Rust Belt, from Lorain thru Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown, Pittsburgh, and Uniontown, it doesn't matter how you spell the name, it's only important that you pronounce it correctly, "Ackordeen!" The restless spirit of Frankie Yankovich demands respect.

[@alexcika9906]

What a classic

[@mjproebstle]

shannonD68 - that was WUAB Channel 43 Lorraine/Cleveland Ahhh, the memories...:)

[@twinsmm1]

+mjproebstle Nope. WJW channel 8. CBS at the time. Now it's Fox. I guess the memory is a bit fuzzy. Super Host was on channel 43.

[@JayJayDobro]

These guys are David Stuchlak (moustach ) and Corky Barber (white accordion). I went to the same accordion studio with them in Parma called Luty's Music...no foolin

[@teddyleather9079]

awesome!

[@teddyleather9079]

i grew up back then loved this stuff!

[@SaleGuy]

Stuchlak was a SWAT officer for a while

[@linkfilmsite]

Yo cool

[@sawdust5]

@mrdandrea Yes, you're right and the bar they,re at was at Fleet ave. and Atena Rd. Sad thing is the bar is long gone so is the neighborhood.

[@bigjumboballs]

east side of cleveland slavic village east 75 and aenta rd that bar has been gone for at least 25 yrs

[@quixeborg]

Bum's Saloon. Memories.

[@harihead2]

Sinister. Gripping! Truly an epic saga. Thanks so much for having the courage to post this. Heh.

[@lichiarenz]

Very nice this Duel

[@shannonD68]

I used to watch this show as a little boy in Cleveland, O in the 70's. I always looked forward to seeing it for some reason. I believe it came on channel 42: "channel 42 plays favorites".

[@janconner2087]

They were always on Channel 8. Superhost was on Saturdays on Channel 43

[@karolinesmail489]

Ch 43

[@MsPandaRosa]

@nsa12345 Yeah, but Superhost was a Cleveland memory too. Miss him doing the winter weather reports, it is just too hot down in Georgia.

[@jimmccormick6091]

Such is the rough and tumble life of an accordion tough guy…..

[@unionrdr]

Thuis was filmed,as was thge rifle guy outsidfe the cz4ch grill in lorain on the corner of Elyris Avenue & 31st. The sidewalk goes down Elyria avenue from 31st. I rode with my parents past the site when they were fiiming the rifle giy. Good memories.

[@jethropu]

Fantastic! Great Vid!

[@astrolog55]

Super Duell... Klasse !! gruss Karl-Heinz

[@mjproebstle]

best skit ever

[@bigjumboballs]

i grew up right around there east 75 st and aenta rd

[@artsyfartsyme]

Love it! :)

[@r-leehunt8205]

"THIS!"IS"Called"A POLISH-Or- POLACK"Duel"!🤭🤣

[@AccordionLadyMi]

This is so funny! LOL Fran

[@atkinsdd]

Great skit! H&BC really bumped up their production standards on that one.

[@kklonowski]

Klonowski Street, best street name ever.

[@danielmarco1242]

Ah, not a swear word or vulgar reference to be heard.

[@Jollyaccordionist]

Very great lesson to start studying the bellows tecnicue;-) Funny video 5*****

[@nsa12345]

Klonowski - I think it's off of Fleet Ave. in Slavic Village in Cleveland.

[@3bhui]

Yes. It was filmed at Fleet and Klonowski. Jolly Tee Cafe was near Aetna and E.75th. clevelandcentennial.blogspot.com/2011/11/hoolihan-and-big-chuck.html

[@johnnymeadwell4074]

Slavic village was great back in the 70s I would not take my dog there to TAKE A SHIT NOW LOL LOL

[@jennydow741]

Cool how the hometown good guy has a white accordion and clothing and the challenger is dressed in black with a black accordion.

[@flintironstag2381]

Squeal like a flamingo boy!!!

[@nsa12345]

You must be thinking of Superhost!

[@mjproebstle]

RIP Superhost

[@MrNOWIEH]

txccd I'm with you man, I'm about the same age my brother is two years younger. umm popcorn made in a kettle with butter.

[@aydenpolo3857]

What happened to Slavic village ☹️

[@ktoth29]

You don't want to know

[@poplifeinctv]

This is ORIGINAL... even before Liil John

[@kevindondrea144]

I can only assume the one Negative vote was because they ruined a classic Accordion. I wasn't too happy about it either but I hope they had it repaired after that.

[@MsPandaRosa]

Well, can you beat that? Your boss & mrs have a Little John around?

[@ricko7902]

Wasn't life fun back then?

[@karolinesmail489]

Oh god yes LMAO

[@MsPandaRosa]

@nsa12345 Hey, don't just knock SuperHost, he's a cool bit of Northern Ohio as well. A poor man's version of BG & LJ, but what's wrong with that? Ah, guess you had to grow up with it all to understand.

[@hangawara]

in western ohio the only cleveland tv station we got was channel 43. maybe hoolihan and big chuck was relayed in some way or different tapes were shown other than what was being shown in cleveland at the same time. anyone know?

[@getlostyougoofball]

Hooligan/Big Chuck/Lil' John were on Channel 8 throughout their stint.

[@scott6421]

Does anyone know or remember if they did a skit with Wonder woman... I remember something where 1 of them was a on a bench or something and wonderwoman was there or maybe a hot girl in a police uniform it was.. I don't recall.. but she went after a group the stold something or whatever.. next thing you know.. she was being chased cause she was "Hot"... if someone can remember or have a link to that.. please post

[@tangle70]

That was Big Chuck and Little John. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnXRZKd5rcqBb7s

[@mrdandrea]

Man, I had forgotten all about this one. What was the name of that street? Kolonowski? Wow, is this in Parma?

[@getlostyougoofball]

Nope, it's in Slavic Village

[@EddieC2000]

Does anyone know who sings this version of this song shes too fat for me I like it. Cleveland was awesome in the 70's after the steel mills started shutting down Cleveland really went downhill in the 80's. Good memories though that bar has been long since bull dozed.

[@hangawara]

wuab channel 43 lorain and cleveland !

[@michaelj.4521]

the guy in black looks like Bill Murray from SNL.

[@kevindondrea144]

+Michael J. Actually :) I thought he looked like Jim Belushi. Maybe a twinge of Bill Murray.

[@Inky261]

cool 5*

[@angrydonny]

Ha ha aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haa ahh a hahahaa a hh aha h haa ah h ha ha aha ha!!!!!!!!! ha ha

[@blackjaguarlord]

It's "Big Chuck and Hooligan." You're welcome.

[@linkfilmsite]

Yo skit like a Monty Python influence... Yo Yo Bizarre ending with a laughing ending yo? Yo laughing sound is like vintage 70s cartoon character yo... bizarre laughing voice yo. seens to be similar to one who does 1970s cartoon voice of "Hong Kong Phooey" or Yo is it Scatman Crothers laughing trying to sound like Burt Reynolds Yo... Or is it Reynolds laughing voice yo or is it Cheech and Chong yo Yo Seems like a tv show of local celebrities yo for Cleveland yo. Yo

[@Bigryan8070]

i feel sorry for guy

[@cdurartist]

ROFL !!!!!!!!!! 5*

[@mudcrunch6955]

Do these guys know Weird Al Yankovic nicked their act?