That was a new idea! Over the years, he refined it and it became his signature piece.Įventually he was asked to perform it on the November '94 TV show, "World Greatest Magic. In fact, other story routines such as "Jack goes to Town", as published in "Scarne on Card Tricks", were already in the literature.īill learned the Sam the Bellhop story and stack as shown to him by Mike Pappas of Chicago and he immediately added expert blind shuffles and cuts to it, thereby making magic out of an amusing vignette. He goes into great detail, especially since he is left handed, though he explains it as a right handed person. Bill Malone teaches you all the steps in order to perform this great miracle. I believe Bill Malone has another version of Sam the Bellhop where he pretends to screw up and get great laffs along the way. It was not really a trick but an amusing interlude such as "Troublewit" or "Rocky the Raccoon" In other words, it was not supposed to fool anybody and it was not a new idea. Sam the bellhop is a great routine using nothing but a normal deck or cards. The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » The workers » » Sam the Bellhop (0 Likes) Go to page 1 23 KidCrenshaw Special user USA 537 Posts. Its not that hard to take a vignette from your OWN LIFE and make a story trick. Sam The Bellhop by Bill Malone (AKA 654 club) - Possibly the best card trick ever created. Heck, Im sixty and Ive never seen a bellhop. Your average 14-year-old doesnt know what a bellhop is and has certainly never seen one. This was a stunt in which the magician tells a story while turning over cards from the deck, the cards matching the words in the narrative. If youre not Bill Malone, Id ditch Sam entirely. In the book "The Final Word on Cards" by Rufus Steele there was an entry titled "Sam & Moe" (author unknown).
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