How ARE things in Glocca Mora?

[Leviathan]

Daffy casually asks this question to the Butler in Daffy Dilly (1948), and it appears again some 23 years later in DFE's Cat in the Hat adaptation (which is understandable, since half the people who worked on that special are Warner veterans).

Until a couple of minutes ago, I thought that this some antiquated radio star catch phrase that the Warner people appropratied (kinda like "Ain't I a Stinker?" or "I'm only 3 1/2 years old"), but I learned that this was actually the title of a song that debuted only a ocuple of years before Dally Dilly.

Out of curiosity. How many other Warner cartoons contain spoken references to lyrics of contemporanous songs? The only other instance I can think of is the "Milkman, keep those bottles quiet" lline in Kitty Korned

[Jon Cooke]

Out of curiosity. How many other Warner cartoons contain spoken references to lyrics of contemporanous songs? The only other instance I can think of is the "Milkman, keep those bottles quiet" lline in Kitty Korned


In "A Corny Concerto", Elmer's line "The music goes around and around...and comes out here, hehehehe." is a reference to a song made famous by Tommy Dorsey (http://www.lyricsdepot.com/tommy-dorsey/music-goes-round-and-round.html) .

There's also "Open the Door, Richard" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_the_Door,_Richard) references in "High Diving Hare" and "Crowing Pains".

[frizfrelengfan]

Daffy casually asks this question to the Butler in Daffy Dilly (1948), and it appears again some 23 years later in DFE's Cat in the Hat adaptation (which is understandable, since half the people who worked on that special are Warner veterans).

Until a couple of minutes ago, I thought that this some antiquated radio star catch phrase that the Warner people appropratied (kinda like "Ain't I a Stinker?" or "I'm only 3 1/2 years old"), but I learned that this was actually the title of a song that debuted only a ocuple of years before Dally Dilly.
I think it's from the musical "Finian's Rainbow."

[oldgreypole]

Bugs Bunny makes reference to a song in "Rebel Rabbit" when he says, "South America, take it away."

[nickramer]

In "The Unruly Hare", Bugs said "Is you is or is you ain't my baby?" which the song was, of course, referenced more famously in "Solid Serenade".

[Sogturtle]

Bugs Bunny makes reference to a song in "Rebel Rabbit" when he says, "South America, take it away."

Oldgreypole~

Now THAT would be the song by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters... Funny song by-the-by!!:)

[Fibber Fox]

Out of curiosity. How many other Warner cartoons contain spoken references to lyrics of contemporanous songs? The only other instance I can think of is the "Milkman, keep those bottles quiet" lline in Kitty Korned

High Diving Hare which jokes about 'Open the Door, Richard.'

FF

[absolutpaul]

Daffy on a couple of occasions says "Beat me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" - an Andrews Sisters song that was a hit in the early 40s. He also does a wonderful version called "Don't you go and beat me Daddy to the nearest bar!". Curly Howard also uses it in Some More of Samoa - "beat me daddy, down to the floor". Naturally, Moe, with mallet, obliges...

[Fibber Fox]

There's also the Sylvester-Tweety cartoon that ends with Granny saying "Que Sera Sera."

FF

[SirRuppOfFiggs]

Then there was Porky's horse, Flat Foot Floogie.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs paraphrases a line from a Duke Ellington song, "She's got it bad, and that aint good!"

[frootloops]

High Diving Hare which jokes about 'Open the Door, Richard.'

FFAlso, Foghorn Leghorn in Crowing Pains says "Open the window, Richard!" to Henry Hawk.

I think one of the "Ducktators" in the cartoon of the same name says "My mamma done told me" as a reference to Blues in the Night, in the middle of a speach.

[mmtper]

Back in 1941 there was a pop song "Why Don't We Do This More Often?" (Next line: Just what we're doing tonight...) It was popular enough, and it may have had a mild double entendre to it...Doris Day, Benny Goodman, and Eddie Arnold recorded versions of it. But it truly lives on because Bugs Bunny & Beaky Buzzard refer to it in Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid

[Spike]

There's also the Sylvester-Tweety cartoon that ends with Granny saying "Que Sera Sera."

FF


Which cartoon was that?:tweety: :sylvester

[doctoon]

The lines "My mama done told me" in Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid and The Ducktators and "Blues in the night" in Coal Black come from the song "Blues in the Night" by Jimmy Lunceford.

In 1966 Daffy Duck's line "Mother said there'd be days like this" in A Squeak in the Deep is from "Mama Said" by the Shirelles.

[Timber Wolf]

Which cartoon was that?:tweety: :sylvester

"Greedy for Tweety".

[frootloops]

Mother McCree is mentioned a few times. Two cartoons I can't remember the name of. The one where Foghorn Leghorn has to egg-sit and the one where Daffy Duck and Porky Pig are space-detectives.

[mmtper]

Bugs quotes I Hear You Knocking (But You Can't Come In) in No Parking Hare. Odd info tidbit: My quick internet research shows that the song was first published and charted as a pop music hit in 1955; first version by Smiley Lewis, quickly followed by Fats Domino and Gale Storm....But the cartoon was released in May 1954! Ah, that Bugs, always ahead of his times!:bugs2:

[Mark J]

Bugs quotes I Hear You Knocking (But You Can't Come In) in No Parking Hare. Odd info tidbit: My quick internet research shows that the song was first published and charted as a pop music hit in 1955; first version by Smiley Lewis, quickly followed by Fats Domino and Gale Storm....But the cartoon was released in May 1954! Ah, that Bugs, always ahead of his times!:bugs2:

Smiley Lewis did the best version with Huey Smith on piano (recorded for Imperial, Fats Domino's label) - he also did the original recordings of Blue Monday (a hit for Fats) and One Night (a hit for Elvis with a 'clean' version). Smiley's version of I Hear You Knockin' charted number 2 R&B but couldn't break pop because of Gale Storm.

[Sogturtle]

Bugs quotes I Hear You Knocking (But You Can't Come In) in No Parking Hare. Odd info tidbit: My quick internet research shows that the song was first published and charted as a pop music hit in 1955; first version by Smiley Lewis, quickly followed by Fats Domino and Gale Storm....But the cartoon was released in May 1954! Ah, that Bugs, always ahead of his times!:bugs2:

Mmtper~

It looks like it gets even weirder... "No Parking Hare" was written long before the Warner's closure of '53. So what this appears to mean is that Bugs Bunny (okay and Sid Marcus:p ) actually wrote/said the line that was then turned into the song... In other words Marcus unintentionally wrote the key lyric in exactly the same way that Paul McCartney wrote a NOTE to himself saying "You know the name, look up the number" which was then "borrowed" by his buddy John Lennon for the key part of the song "You Know My Name, Look Up The Number".

Ah writers!!!! Creative even when they don't know they're being creative!!:D

Mark J~

Elvis also did the "dirty" version of "One Night" (aka "One Night (Of Sin))" which was promptly and embarrassedly buried by RCA Victor for decades...:p

[RachelToonist]

Mother McCree is mentioned a few times. Two cartoons I can't remember the name of. The one where Foghorn Leghorn has to egg-sit and the one where Daffy Duck and Porky Pig are space-detectives.

It was mentioned in ROCKET SQUAD, that much I know. The name of one of the suspects is George "Mother" McCree...

[doctoon]

Elvis Presley's songs were mentioned in a few theatricals. Lantz's Fodder and Son had Windy Bear saying "Hound Dog" and "Blue Suede Shoes." WB's Hare-Abian Knights christened "Hound Dog" as "Hound Camel," and WB's Dog Tales created a "Hound Dog" character with Presley sideburns.

As for the Beatles, there is a mop-topped harpist singing "Yeah, yeah, yeah" from "She Loves You" in Lantz's Woody and the Beanstalk.