Sing Me A Cartoon #7 – Disney Finds A Gold Mine
“Walt Disney, in his new Silly Symphony in color, has contributed a musical jingle that bids fair to take this town — and country — by storm…”
Category Archives: NEEDLE DROP NOTES
Sing Me A Cartoon 6: …and What Comes after a Wedding?
Once Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married – in song – it was inevitable that they should become parents… at least on records.
Sing Me A Cartoon 5: More Nuptials for Mickey
To the best of my knowledge, “The Wedding of Mister Mickey Mouse” was not published, nor recorded, in the United States. Have a listen.
Sing Me A Cartoon 4: Mickey Mouse Gets Married. . . on records, at least!
If you know your onions about Mickey Mouse, then you know that his main squeeze was one Minnie Mouse.
Sing Me A Cartoon 3: Much More Mickey Mouse
“. . . that tricky, wacky-wicky, Bolseviki Mickey Mouse”. I don’t know if Disney would have approved of that description of Minnie’s boyfriend.
Sing Me A Cartoon 3: More Mickey Mouse
By 1929, the Mickey Mouse shorts had attained a theme song – a deliberately corny, purposefully rustic opus called “Minnie’s Yoo-Hoo”.
Sing Me A Cartoon 2: Mickey Mouse at the start
By the end of 1929, the Mickey Mouse cartoons were enormously popular, not only with the general public, but with high-falutin’ film critics …and song-writers.
Sing Me A Cartoon 1: Felix the Cat
In 1923, British lyricist Ed Bryant and composer Hubert David found a new subject for a song which had been brought over from the States–Felix the Cat.
Cab Calloway Cartoons – Part 3
Disney is not usually associated with celebrity-caricature cartoons. But one of their Silly Symphonies included a Cab Calloway spoof with the same white suit …and the same degree of energy.
Cab Calloway in Cartoons – Part 2
Cab Calloway could enliven a movie–whether feature-length or a musical or cartoon short–with the same energy he displayed on stage.
