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Fletch

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Warner Bros. Merrie Melody from 1931. Title tune by Benee Russell, George Meyer, and Joe Young.
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Almost put this in the Last Movie You Watched thread, but it's only 7 min long, and the music by the Abe Lyman band is every bit as good as the visualizations.

Another take on the tune, by Isham Jones' ork - not at all cartoonish and done with plenty of sock.
 

HepKitty

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Fletch said:
Warner Bros. Merrie Melody from 1931. Title tune by Benee Russell, George Meyer, and Joe Young.
[youtube]Pbu-cQ90WiQ[/youtube]
Almost put this in the Last Movie You Watched thread, but it's only 7 min long, and the music by the Abe Lyman band is every bit as good as the visualizations.

Another take on the tune, by Isham Jones' ork - not at all cartoonish and done with plenty of sock.

That's ok, the music is good and I like cartoons :)
 

LizzieMaine

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78s to endure the unendurable by --

Starting off in 1931 with Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees and their definitive recording of "As Time Goes By." Dug up and dusted off by Victor in 1943 during the Petrillo ban, and it became a hit all over again. Rudy's accountant must've been pleased -- it's probably the most-reissued Vallee disc of all time.

Next. following a commercial for Forty Fathom Fish -- look for the picture of Old Forty Fathom right there on the wrapper -- it's the big surprise hit of 1938, with Eddy Duchin and his Orchestra and Patricia Norman's she-didn't-really-say-what-it-sounded-like-did-she vocal on "Old Man Mose." Buck-buck-bucket indeed.
 

Cousin Hepcat

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LizzieMaine said:
and Patricia Norman's she-didn't-really-say-what-it-sounded-like-did-she vocal on "Old Man Mose." Buck-buck-bucket indeed.
Fletch said:
How likely is it that anyone, in any era, would ever say: "Ooohhh, bucket!"?
lol :eusa_clap Thanks, needed that...
 

LizzieMaine

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It's a pretty remarkable record even without the controversy -- who would have ever thought Eddy Duchin's band could sound like that?

Miss Norman, meanwhile, got herself a string of similar novelty hits -- "Pluckin' On A Golden Harp," for one. "Pluck pluck pluckit."
 

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