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.
“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.
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.
“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…”
Once Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married – in song – it was inevitable that they should become parents… at least on records.
To the best of my knowledge, “The Wedding of Mister Mickey Mouse” was not published, nor recorded, in the United States. Have a listen.
If you know your onions about Mickey Mouse, then you know that his main squeeze was one Minnie Mouse.
“. . . that tricky, wacky-wicky, Bolseviki Mickey Mouse”. I don’t know if Disney would have approved of that description of Minnie’s boyfriend.
By 1929, the Mickey Mouse shorts had attained a theme song – a deliberately corny, purposefully rustic opus called “Minnie’s Yoo-Hoo”.
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.
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.