Puzzeling Band Names - You Guess/Find Out The Answer

[Sparky Kronkite]

These are some band names that I've researched/might suggest might be cool/or made up.

They all "mean something." They all relate to a person, place or thing - in actual historical context. It could be a book, a person, a TV show, a historic event - anything historically noteable and real.

1) Do any of you know - or can any of you figure out - what the band names meaning - ties to?

2) I invite you to do the same: Make up/suggest a band name that has some meaning - a hidden meaning - a puzzle.

a) Boch's Car Mushrooms
b) A Meathead in Every Pot
c) 4 Wheeled Maxwell Cheepsters'
d) Krebs Foil Ball
e) Reb Button Ho Ho's
f) Dog Master's Voice
g) '38 Timeless Men of the Year
h) Major Bowes and his Hoboken 4
i) The Hitless Wonders
j) Bobbie, Billie, Betty - the Jo Jo's
k) HD Peanut Gallery
j) Jane & Michael's Nanny
k) Mauch Chunk Thorpe
l) Master Po

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

My guess is that these are too hard or......

there is a reluctance to put on any thinking caps today.

Here's a couple of answers.

Kreb's Foil Balls? Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver/Gilligan's first TV role on the Dobie Gillie show) the first beatnic on TV - he collected tin foil in the form of a big ball.

Jane & Michael's Nanny? Is Mary Poppin's

Yep - these are hard but not impossible.

 

[rambling man]

b has to have something to do with Archie Bunker's son in law and Herbert Hoover, whose campaign slogan was "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage." and who was also mentioned in the All in the Family theme song "Baby we could use some men like Hoibut Hoover agaaaaiiin"

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Ramblin' Man!!!!!!

He knows how to play this game!!!!!!

He wins - but I don't know what the prize should be.

Good job dude!!!!

 

[rambling man]

timeless men of the year, lets go with Hitler, Mussolini, Duvalier, and Chamberlain who signed the Munich Agreement that sold Czechoslovakia down the river...

Shittiest quartet in history

 

[sexy-girl]

too hard for me i could maybe get some of the present day english bands ... but im no good on historic/pop culture really alot of it was before my time

 

[Thomas Paine]

a) Boch's Car Mushrooms
b) A Meathead in Every Pot
c) 4 Wheeled Maxwell Cheepsters'
d) Krebs Foil Ball
e) Reb Button Ho Ho's
f) Dog Master's Voice
g) '38 Timeless Men of the Year
h) Major Bowes and his Hoboken 4
i) The Hitless Wonders
j) Bobbie, Billie, Betty - the Jo Jo's
k) HD Peanut Gallery
j) Jane & Michael's Nanny
k) Mauch Chunk Thorpe
l) Master Po

c) Something to do with Jack Benny, who in his stage persona drove a Maxwell and was notoriously cheap (or cheep.)

f) The RCA logo, with the dog listening to the old Victrola, with the slogan, "his master's voice."

g) Major Bowes was the host of "The Amateur Hour" and, guessing here, the Hoboken reference has to do with Frank Sinatra, maybe appearing on the show.

j) The babes from Petticoat Junction

k) The audience of kids on the Howdy Doody Show.

k - again) Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe came from Mauch Chunk, PA, which was later renamed in his honor, although I think it may have been rerenamed Mauch Chunk, no doubt for the way it trips off the tongue.

OK, so what do I win? *g*

 

[Dillinger]

a) Boch's Car Mushrooms

Enola Gay? Mushroom referring to mushroom clouds?

b) A Meathead in Every Pot

Something to do with Archie Bunker combined with a New Deal political philosophy?

c) 4 Wheeled Maxwell Cheepsters'

Wooden wheeled cars are cheaper then rubber?

d) Krebs Foil Ball

Maynard G. AKA Gilligan? Or citric acid/phosphate?

e) Reb Button Ho Ho's

A comedian with a sweet tooth?

f) Dog Master's Voice

Clueless

g) '38 Timeless Men of the Year

Everyone who didn't make man of the year in 1938?

h) Major Bowes and his Hoboken 4

An old radio show

i) The Hitless Wonders

Most every band that ever existed?

j) Bobbie, Billie, Betty - the Jo Jo's

Deep fat fried potatoes and 3 sexy babes?

k) HD Peanut Gallery

People who work at Home Depot and lurk on the BB?

j) Jane & Michael's Nanny

Nothing funny comes to mind...

k) Mauch Chunk Thorpe

Native American Olympian

l) Master Po

Kung Fu, Baby!

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Very good Dill!!!! T Paine too!!!

Yer such a smart guys!

But.......

Jack Bennie's car was named Maxwell - Bennie was cheap of course.

Almost with Red Button's, his theme song was the Ho Ho song.

The RCA dog sitting in front of the Victrola is called "His Master's Voice."

Time's Man of the Year in 1938 was - Hitler.

Hitless Wonder's 1906 Chicago WhiteSox.

The Hoboken 4 was Sinatra's early back up group - they performed on Major Bowes radio show.

Bobbie Jo, Billie Jo and Betty Jo - Petticoat Junction babes.

T Paine got these two......

Howdy Doodie's live audience - was the Peanut Gallery.

Thorpe's birth town.