A New Year’s “Celebrake”-tion
This was the first Popeye cartoon released during the calendar year of 1938, and it’s quite notable for what it has–and for what it doesn’t have.
Author Archives: James Parten
Sing Me A Cartoon 24: Snow White Meets The Big Bands
In 1937, when Snow White was released, Disney had many more ways its songs could be promoted. It was now the much-revered “Big Band Era”.
Sing Me A Cartoon 23: “Snow White” on Black Shellac
The idea of the “original soundtrack album” had not occurred to anybody until Disney tried it with Snow White – and it proved to be a hit all over the world!
Sing Me A Cartoon #22: Original Mousetracks
You would think that, by 1936, the folks at the Walt Disney studios would have every way figured to promote their product. Toys . . . newspaper comic strips ….
Sing Me A Cartoon #21: Even More Mickey Melodies
By 1936, Walt Disnney’s studios had musicians and lyricists at the ready, willing and able to provide themes and words for any song that might be required for a given…
Sing Me A Cartoon 20: Who Played Cock Robin?
The Disney music department was pinning its hopes on a song in a cartoon that was based on a poem that had first been printed around 1744 – Who Killed Cock Robin?
Sing Me A Cartoon 19: Two Sequels, One Mystery
“The Three Little Pigs” spawned two sequel songs–one of which we may never hear. Here’s what I know about them.
Sing Me a Cartoon 18: “The World Owes Me A Living!”
The tunes from other Silly Symphonies weren’t nearly as successful as Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf? But that didn’t mean that the songwriters at Disney weren’t trying!
Sing Me A Cartoon #17: Turning the Paige
Victor was interested in covering songs from the latest “Silly Symphonies”, so they turned to an musician familiar with these selections. That bandleader was Raymond Paige.
Sing Me A Cartoon #16: More Sailor Man Rhythm
There’s an odd duck in the Fleischer pond, in the form of “Be Kind To Aminals”, on which an absolutely different voice – Floyd Buckley – appears as Popeye.
