Phil, John and Pip Murphy

Phil, John and Pip Murphy - Ireland (2) 

Phil, John and Pip Murphy

Phil, John and Pip Murphy - Ireland (1)

Smart Politics (1948)

                                                               Smart Politics (1948) Harmonica Boys                                                                   (George Fields and Don Ripps)

  Don Ripps and George Fields

The Harmonica Boys – George Offerman Jr, George Fields, Don Ripps, Dick Paxto                         

About Harmonica Players in this movie: They were not The Cappy Barra Harmonica Boys but "The Harmonica Boys" with: George Offerman (stand-in) Dick Paxton (stand-in) George Fields (Chromatic Harmonica Player) Don Ripps (Bass Harmonica Player) Both Fields and Ripps were outstanding harmonica players. Fields had been with The Cappy Barras and Ripps with The Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals, The Cappy Barras and The Harmonica Ripples. Ripps has passed away but Fields is living in Palm Springs. Movie comment: Average "High School movie" but the Harmonica playing is excellent on two occasions. The sound tracks were dubbed by Fields and Ripps for, the two stand-ins in order to give it a quartet sound. The dubbing by these two excellent players is of a high standard. A movie well worth having, especially for Harmonica Players!

George Fields

Radio Stars on Parade (1945)

 Radio Stars on Parade (1945) - Cappy Barra Harmonica Boys

L-R -  George Fields, Alan Car (actor - nonplayer), Charles Leighton, Wally Brown (actor - nonplayer), Joe Mullendore (aka Joe Sanns).jpg

Carol Axford

Carol Axford - England

Noel Battle

  Noel Battle - Ireland (2)

Noel Battle

 Noel Battle - Ireland (1)

Pot o' Gold (1941 )

Pot o' Gold - 1941 

Jerry Adler, younger brother of Larry Adler, taught James Stewart how to hold the harmonica

and mime the playing for the movie, and was the person who did the actual playing of the

harmonica music supposedly done by Stewart, who continued playing the instrument after the movie

Jerry Murad's Harmonicats

  Jerry Murad's Harmonicats (20)  

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