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HARRY DANN - AMERICA'S PICTURE
CLOWN
AND SIDESHOW TALKER!
HARRY DANN, "SNOOPIE", &
VERNE LANGDON
I knew Harry Dann well; he was a
good Friend of mine. He was also a famous clown (and in his
last years, a sideshow talker & ringmaster on Carson &
Barnes tent show).
For those of you who may be
interested in the life & death of Harry Dann,
I've written his biography
for (click here to
read)
Find-A-Grave
At the present time,
Harry's bio is among the 21 million non-famous
deceased persons.
In spite of my
protestations to the contrary, Robert Edwards, one of Find-A-Grave's
Administrators, felt Harry wasn't as famous as Felix B. Adler or
Chester & Joe Sherman, or Shlitze the Pinhead (other bios I
have written for Find-A-Grave).
As Robert explained to me (his own words): "Yours
is a purely subjective opinion. A Google search of Harry Dann
yields a few mentions in clown-related blogs and not much else.
Being an inductee of the International Clown Hall of Fame is really
too niche-like - how many halls of fame are there these days for all
sorts of things? He doesn't even have his own Wikipedia bio.
Nothing at all to indicate any broad-based, lasting notoriety."
Perhaps if Sideshow
World and others will post the link to Harry's memorial
page on their websites, and others of you will click on the link and
leave sentiments,
Find-A-Grave
will reconsider and put Harry Deems Dann where he belongs
- along with Felix B. Adler, Chester & Joe Sherman, Emmett Kelly
Sr., and Shlitze the Pinhead in the Famous section.
The matter is entirely
in YOUR hands now.
I Thank You for any help
you are willing to give, but you won't be doing this for me - you'll
be doing it for Harry. He surely deserves his own famous
page, wouldn't you agree?
P.S. If you're not already a
member, you need to register as a member of Find-A-Grave in order to
leave flowers and a message, but it just takes a minute, and believe
me - your information is ENTIRELY safe and is shared with NO ONE.
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