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?
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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.
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.
