The Fat Boys? mentor?and the owner of the brand name?is a Swiss-born promoter named Charlie Stettler. In 1982, Afrika Bambaataa, a DJ of esteemed heft and taste, turned on Midday with Bill Boggs and saw a man in a gorilla suit promoting a cassette that contained recordings of garbage trucks. The gorilla, Stettler, had sold over 200,000 tapes of ?noise for homesick city dwellers,? released through his label-management company Tin Pan Apple. The following year, he put on a talent show at Radio City Music Hall, and the Fat Boys?then rapping as Disco 3?were the unexpected walk-on champs. Stettler took the group to a yodel-off in his native Switzerland, figuring, as he put it, ?If you can get those assholes?? he meant the Swiss yodeling fans??to nod their heads and smile, then you might have something.? Farmers on a mountain north of Zurich witnessed Buffy doing a beat-box version of ?My Country Tis of Thee.? And though they arrived in Europe as the Disco 3, the group flew back to New York as the Fat Boys, after raiding the hotel kitchen and, so the legend goes, sticking their manager with a 375-franc tab, as well as a multi-million-dollar idea.
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