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.
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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.
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…”
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.
