{"id":58210,"date":"2020-05-26T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T07:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=58210"},"modified":"2020-05-23T21:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:32:15","slug":"looney-tunes-1939-40-keep-on-keepin-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/looney-tunes-1939-40-keep-on-keepin-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Looney Tunes 1939-40: Keep On Keepin\u2019 On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the 1939-40 season, the pattern which had been established within the previous two years had become standard at Termite Terrace. There would be somewhere between a dozen and 16 black and white Looney Tunes, and between two dozen and 30 Merrie Melodies in color. What\u2019s more, the use of Warner songs in the cartoons became more sophisticated. Action and gags no longer had to stop cold for music, and Carl Stalling more consistently used numbers as leitmotifs in a more natural manner to establish character or mood.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Porkys-hotel-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"479\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Porkys-hotel-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Porkys-hotel-600-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Porkys-hotel-600-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Hotel<\/strong> (9\/2\/39) &#8211; Porky is trying to run a hotel at Donut Center (What a Hole!). A customer of his establishment is Gouty Goat, a curmudgeonly character in a wheelchair with one foot totally bandaged, who has come there for peace and quiet. This will be difficult with newcomer Gabby Duck endlessly asking questions about Gouty\u2019s foot. Songs include \u201cHoneymoon Hotel\u201d with special lyrics, and \u201cYou Don\u2019t Know How Much You Can Suffer\u201d &#8211; a number anyone who\u2019s ever endured a session of the gout can appreciate.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9A1kAUrnJps\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jeepers-creepers600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jeepers-creepers600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jeepers-creepers600-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jeepers-creepers600-150x115.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Jeepers Creepers<\/strong> (9\/23\/39) &#8211; Officer Porky investigates a haunted house, with a ghost (\u201cYou know, hose white things that go \u2018WHOOOOOOO\u2019!\u201d), reportedly voiced by Pinto Colvig, though I wonder if this time it\u2019s Mel doubling. Some gags borrowed from <em>Case of the Stuttering Pig<\/em> in a staircase chase. Songs: The title number with special lyrics, also introducing \u201cA Hunting We Will Go\u201d reworded as \u201cA-Haunting\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GN6SI1-SuPk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Naughty Neighbors<\/strong> (10\/7\/39) &#8211; Porky and Petunia settle a longstanding feud between their mountain families. But some of their farm animals are just more used to fightin\u2019 &#8211; and a fussin\u2019. Does not appear to borrow too many gags from the studios\u2019s earlier feud cartoons. Songs include a production number on \u201cWould You Like To Take a Walk?\u201d, a 1939 pop song Stalling must have remembered, recorded widely by Rudy Vallee on Victor, Ben Selvin on Columbia, and as a vocal by Annette Hanshaw (Harmony, Velvet Tone, and Clarion) and by Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson on Victor. \u201cWhen I Yoo Hoo\u201d is revived, and \u201cMonday Morning\u201d is included.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HiKzb2WjZek\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pied-piper-Porky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pied-piper-Porky.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pied-piper-Porky-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pied-piper-Porky-150x118.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Pied Piper Porky<\/strong> (11\/4\/39) &#8211; Piper Porky has rid the town of rats &#8211; save one &#8211; a sassy rat with voice mirroring Eddie \u201cRochester\u201d Anderson. Porky attributes his success to \u201cI blew some corn right through my horn\u201d, actually a clarinet. The rat breaks the instrument in two, and says it\u2019s \u201cNo good. Full of holes.\u201d Porky resorts to an old fshioed mousetrap, a cat he refers to as \u201cSlappy Katsy\u201d (a reference to Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, an ex-champion prize righter who displayed an open-glove style of boxing leading to his nickname). The cat nearly loses all of his nine lives in battle with the rat, but is revived by Porky\u2019s bottle of \u201cKat-Nip &#8211; 100% pure (Dynamite)\u201d. However, the rat emerges from the final bout wearing a cat fur which he describes as \u201cgenuine ermine\u201d. Songs: extended passages from the final movements of Mendelssohn\u2019s Violin Conncerto in E Minor accompany the open credits. \u201cThe Umbrella Man\u201d is used as a clarnet lure for the rodent. Also a swing arrangement of \u201cHere We Go Round the Muberry Bush\u201d with special lyrics accompanies Porky\u2019s press conference with the townsfolk.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8DNec26iHY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/porky-giant-killer600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/porky-giant-killer600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/porky-giant-killer600-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/porky-giant-killer600-150x116.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Porky the Giant Killer<\/strong> (11\/18\/39) &#8211; Porky joins a mob of villagers who intend to destroy the giant living in a big castle on a hill. The giant is father to a toddler who alteay stands 6&#8242; 7&#8243;. The giant never stoops to grinding bones for bread, and when Porky is left behind by the fleeing villagers, the giant discovers Porky\u2019s playing on a toy piano is a great pacifier for the baby\u2019s wailing. Like it or not, Porky becomes the permanent baby-sitter (\u201cEverything seems to happen to me.\u201d) Songs; \u201cThe Alphabet Song\u201d (aka \u201cTwinkle Twinkle Little Star\u201d), sung by Porky, \u201cYou Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby\u201d (from the Warner feature <em>Hard To Get<\/em>), and \u201cMonday Morning\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_rG4JkMLLHQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Film-Fan-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"484\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Film-Fan-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Film-Fan-600-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Film-Fan-600-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><strong>The Film Fan<\/strong> (12\/16\/39) &#8211; Little boy Porky has been sent to the store by his mother to get \u201ca loaf of bread, a bottle of milk, and come home right away\u201d. He is distracted, however, by a movie house offering free admission for kids. Parodies of newsreels and shorts abound, with some gags borrowed from \u201cShe Was An Acrobat\u2019s Daughter\u201d. When Mama calls the theatre to inquire about Porky\u2019s whereabouts, the management announces that if there is a little boy in the theatre who was sent to the store by his mother, he\u2019d better come home. The entire audience disappears in the twinkling of an eye, and the theatre deflates. Songs: \u201cYou Ought To Be In Pictures\u201d; \u201cThere\u2019s a Brand New Picture In My Picture Frame\u201d with special lyrics &#8211; this song was recorded by Freddy Martin on Bluebird, Larry Clinton on Victor, Russ Morgan on Decca, Horace Heidt on Brinswick, Bunny Berigan on Thesaurus Transcriptions, and Dick Jurgens also on a radio transcription; and \u201cThrough the Courtesy of Love\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/th1FdG5iM3I?start=4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Last Stand<\/strong> (1\/6\/40) &#8211; Porky runs a diner in an isolated town. Daffy is also present as cook and waiter, with gags abounding as he finds his cupboard bare (with a note reading \u201cNow you know how Mother Hubbard felt &#8211; signed, The Mice\u201d. A customer insists on \u201ca good hamburger &#8211; and I want it bad\u201d, prompting Daffy to hunt some beef in the raw in the form of a local bull. Songs: \u201cWith Plenty of Money and You\u201d (with special lyrics), \u201cI\u2019d Love To Take Orders From You\u201d, plus two fairly recent numbers, \u201cStart the Day Right\u201d, recorded by Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell on Decca as a vocal, and by Guy Lombardo on the same label as a dance arrangement (see below), and \u201cAll In Favor Say Aye\u201d, recorded by Orrin Tucker on Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7OxjTJUztH8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Africxa-Squeaks-500.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto[58210]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Africxa-Squeaks-500-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-58531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Africxa-Squeaks-500-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Africxa-Squeaks-500-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Africxa-Squeaks-500.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Africa Squeaks<\/strong> (1\/27\/40) &#8211; A spoof of a picture from the previous year, \u201cStanley and Livingston\u201d. Borrows one gag from \u201cPorky In Wackyland\u201d &#8211; the \u201cDark, Darker, and Darkest Africa\u201d bit. Much of it has become politically incorrect over the years. It also features a topical takeoff on Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge, caricaturing him as \u201cCake-Icer\u201d and using one of his catch phrases, \u201cThat\u2019s wrong. You\u2019re right!\u201d Songs include \u201cCongo\u201d, \u201cWe\u2019re Working Our way Through College\u201d, and \u201cYou\u2019re the Greatest Discovery (since 1492)\u201d, a song which the real Kay Kyser recorded for Columbia, and Jimmy Dorsey on Decca, and also by Sterling Young and his orchestra on radio transcription.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rqlfSuSv9yc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ali-baba-bound-lobby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ali-baba-bound-lobby.jpg 571w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ali-baba-bound-lobby-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ali-baba-bound-lobby-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Ali Baba Bound<\/strong> (2\/17\/40) &#8211; Porky in the desert again, trying to let the soldiers in the<br \/>\nfort know that Ali Baba and his dirty sleeves are on the prowl again, after receiving a tip from a coin-tossing George Raft caricature, with a pocket marked \u201cSecret messages &#8211; Take one.\u201d Much line-mileage is given over to a mother-and-child camel combination, which Porky refers to as \u201cBlondie\u201d and \u201cBaby Dumpling\u201d &#8211; reference to the comic strip characters who had a few years before broken successfully onto the silver screen. Songs include \u201cThe Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish\u201d (sung by Porky), and \u201cVision of Salome\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WWEhRzzXocI?start=4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pilgrim-porky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"484\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pilgrim-porky.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pilgrim-porky-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pilgrim-porky-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Pilgrim Porky<\/strong> (3\/16\/40) &#8211; Gags taking off on the voyage of the Mayflower, many of them anachronistic (references to \u201cF.H.A,\u201d, for example). Songs: \u201cLong Long Ago\u201d, &#8220;A Life On the Ocean Wave&#8221;, \u201cSong of the Marines\u201d, \u201cMy Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean\u201d, \u201cJeepers Creepers\u201d, \u201cYou Must Have Been a Beautify Baby\u201d, and \u201cConfidentially\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Slap Happy Pappy<\/strong> (4\/13\/40) &#8211; Built around two facts well known to the public in 1940: (1) that Eddie Cantor had five children &#8211; all daughters, and (2) that Big Crosby had several children &#8211; all boys. Eddie \u201cCackler\u201d asks Bing what to do in order to get a son. Bing recommends crooning &#8211; it may do the trick. Songs: \u201cYou Must Have Been Beautiful Baby\u201d, \u201cChicken Reel\u201d, \u201cIn an Old Dutch Garden\u201d (recorded by Glenn Miller on Bluebird, Dick Jurgens on Vocalion, Eddy Duchin on Columbia, Russ Morgan on Decca, and in England by Victor Sylvester on Parlophone and Jack White for Regal-Zonophone) and \u201cConfidentially\u201d (from the Warners 1938 feature <em>Garden Of The Moon<\/em> &#8211; here with special lyric material for Eddie). <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ybvduIwsCBA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/porkys-poor-fish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/porkys-poor-fish.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/porkys-poor-fish-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/porkys-poor-fish-150x119.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Poor Fish<\/strong> (4\/27\/40) &#8211; Porky operates a pet shop specializing in fish. Puns abound, including \u201cMussels\u201d with Popeye arms, who make use of them when a cat appears intent on satisfying his appetite. Songs include \u201cThe Girl With the Pigtails In Her Hair\u201d, recorded by Charlie Barnet for Bluebird, Horace Heidt for Columbia, Hal Kemp for Victor, and Lawrence Welk for Vocalion; and \u201cYou, You Darlin\u2019\u201d, recorded by Duke Ellington on Victor with vocal by Herb Jeffries, Kay Kyser on Columbia, Jack Teagarden on Varsity, Blue Barron on Bluebird, and Bob Crosby on Decca). Here&#8217;s a double dose of tunes heard in this picture: <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PiIlHVErndo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0i5dDCRKNo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/you-ought-to-be-in-picturesus-lobbycard-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/you-ought-to-be-in-picturesus-lobbycard-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/you-ought-to-be-in-picturesus-lobbycard-600-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/you-ought-to-be-in-picturesus-lobbycard-600-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>You Ought To Be In Pictures<\/strong> (5\/18\/40) &#8211; The landmark film in which Porky shakes hands with Leon Schlesinger. During lunchtime at the Warner studio, Daffy (on a drawing board) talks Porky into breaking his cartoon contract to go into features. Leon (in the flesh, but voiced by Mel Blanc) agrees, but knows that \u201cHe\u2019ll be back.\u201d Spectacular use of the animated characters cavorting on live action backgrounds, in and around the studio and on the streets of Los Angeles. Several Warner staffers appear on screen, including Michael Maltese as a studio guard). Porky finds feature work not to his liking, and returns to find Daffy vying for his old job. Porky delivers Daffy a sound thrashing, patches things up with Schlesinger (\u201cApril fool!\u201d), and hits Daffy with a final tomato when he tries to talk him into being featured with Greta Garbo. Songs: \u201cYou Ought To Be In Pictures\u201d, \u201cConcert in the Park\u201d (with special lyrics &#8211; \u201cI\u2019ll Be Famous On the Screen\u201d for Daffy), \u201cAm I Blue\u201d, and \u201cHome Sweet Home\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U6K1j5YGee8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/chewin-bruin-268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/chewin-bruin-268.jpg 268w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/chewin-bruin-268-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><strong>The Chewin\u2019 Bruin\u2019<\/strong> (6\/8\/40) &#8211; An old grandpaw tells the tall tale of a bear who had a hankering for chewing tobacco. Spittoon gags provide running punctuation, but overall a fairly weak cartoon with little to no concentration on Porky. Songs include \u201cFor He\u2019s a Jolly Good Fellow\u201d &#8211; and for the first minute (after the credits) you hear &#8220;Little Old Sod Shanty On The Claim&#8221; on the soundtrack. Here&#8217;s the whole tune: <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KpkGu05YPF8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Porky-Baseball-Broadcast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Porky-Baseball-Broadcast.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Porky-Baseball-Broadcast-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Porky-Baseball-Broadcast-150x123.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Baseball Broadcast<\/strong> (7\/6\/40) &#8211; Broadcasts of major league baseball games had become routine by this time, and we find Porky in the booth calling play-by-play. A running gag has a fellow trying to find his seat &#8211; only to find it\u2019s behind a pillar where he can\u2019t see a thing &#8211; a somewhat common occurrence in older parks of the day. On the field activities almost take a back seat. A few gags would be repeated in \u201cBaseball Bugs\u201d. Songs include \u201cFrat\u201d, and \u201cSing, You Son of a Gun\u201d (from \u201cHollywood Hotel, performed by Dick Powell, but not known to be commercially recorded).<\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Patient-Porky600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"474\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Patient-Porky600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Patient-Porky600-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Patient-Porky600-150x119.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Patient Porky<\/strong> (8\/24\/40) &#8211; \u201cI had a birthday party, and I made a p-p-pig of myself\u201d, declares Porky at the local hospital. An x-ray reveals all but a single slice of a chocolate cake, complete with lit birthday candles, whole inside him. A nutty cat, who is actually a patient himself, decides to perform an operation, to \u201ccut the cake\u201d. Makes reference to two popular doctor series of the cinema &#8211; the cat calls himself Dr. Kill-dare, while the real doctor is named Dr. Chris Chum &#8211; reference to Dr. Christian, a popular radio series and RKO film series. Songs: \u201cWe\u2019re Working Our Way Through College\u201d (with specialty lyrics), \u201cYou Don\u2019t Know How Much You Can Suffer\u201d, and \u201cMelancholy Mood\u201d (recorded by Harry James on Brunswick with the first recorded performance by Frank Sinatra &#8211; very rare on 78; Artie Shaw on Bluebird; Ginny Simms on Vocalion; Martha Raye on Brunswick; Bob Crosby on Decca, and Jess Stacy for Varsity, and, of all things, revived by Bob Dylan in 2016!)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kEjXn6e9x7I\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><strong>On Deck:<\/strong> Merrie Melodies 1939-40 (Part 1) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the 1939-40 season, a new pattern had now been established &#8211; and the use of Warner songs in the cartoons became much more sophisticated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":58538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1762],"tags":[69,139,51],"class_list":["post-58210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-needle-drop-notes","tag-leon-schlesinger","tag-porky-pig","tag-warner-bros-cartoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58548,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58210\/revisions\/58548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}