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.
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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.
Sing Me A Cartoon #15: Sailor Man Rhythm
Believe it or not, songs were being written about Popeye even before the cartoons started coming out in 1933.
Sing Me A Cartoon #14: Betty Boop’s Platter Party
Of the various girls who are said to have done the voice of Betty Boop, none made more out of it than Mae Questel.
Sing me A Cartoon #13: The Girl With Three Theme Songs
When Max Fleischer started the Betty Boop series, the “music people” at the studio were already onto what was required: a theme song.
Sing Me A Cartoon #12: The Rarest of the Rare
Frank Luther recorded “Mickey Mouse And Minnie’s In Town”, and “In A Silly Symphony”. They were released on picture discs in early 1934 – and they didn’t sell at all!
Sing Me A Cartoon #11: More Mickey Melody
“Mickey Mouse And Minnie’s In Town” rolls off the tongue a little clumsy–and it was not nearly the Disney hit song that “Who’s Afraid. . . ” was.
Sing Me A Cartoon #10: Who’s Afraid Of An International Earache?
When Three Little Pigs opened in Europe, they went for it just as strongly as the Americans had done. And the dance bands were ready to pick up on the Big Bad Wolf jingle.
Sing Me A Cartoon #9: Who’s Afraid of “dem boesen Wolf?”
“Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?” was a huge hit all over the world – no more so than in the early days of Nazi Germany.
Sing Me A Cartoon #8: Wolf Tracks
Three Little Pigs premiered on May 25th, 1933 in New York and in LA on July 13th. It didn’t take long for the first records of “Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf” to hit the music shops.
