“The Popeye Song Folio”
In 1936, this sheet music special collection was published, containing ten of Popeye’s hit movie tunes.
In 1936, this sheet music special collection was published, containing ten of Popeye’s hit movie tunes.
Never mind what the feature was, it was Popeye the audiences wanted… accompanied by great songs!
The conventional wisdom is there is something missing from these cartoons than those in the pre-code years. But the music was just as lively.
If some viewers missed the spice of the earlier Boop cartoons, at least the folks at Paramount seemed to be happy.
When Max Fleischer started the Betty Boop series, the “music people” at the studio were already onto what was required: a theme song.