The most successful and well-regarded of Sam Singer’s cartoons is not so much associated with his name than that of Bob Kane, who with Bill Finger also created Batman. The vocalists sound as if they are trapped at the bottom of a deep well (like Timmy, before Lassie arrived with help). Jabbering mouth movements are overdubbed (without those charming Fleischer-like results).Īnother Singer cartoon, The Adventures of Pow Wow (1956) is a non-comic series of stories featuring a young Native American boy, this time using a narrator to avoid synching dialogue.Ī cel from POW WOW THE INDIAN BOYAs for Bucky and Pepito (1959), your humble author recalls the strange, echoing theme song to Bucky and Pepito as so downright creepy, it haunted his childhood ears. Singer’s The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican (1950) has a theme song so lackluster, it could be a send-up of theme songs. Sam Singer’s cartoons had little appeal and have not stood the test of time, even as cult fodder, except through Jerry’s legendary “Worst Cartoons” presentations at the San Diego Comicon and elsewhere. Even Paul Terry, whose cartoons were inconsistent and increasing parsimoniously, came up with characters and plots that captured audiences’ attention and even affection (much to the credit of Terry’s creative personnel). He could also be considered the animation industry equivalent to bottom-budget live-action producer Sam Katzman. On many occasions, producer Sam Singer has been affectionately dubbed “the Ed Wood of animation” by our own Jerry Beck. Voices: Dal McKennon (Courageous Cat, Minute Mouse, Walter Geshundheit, Harry, Tour Guide) John Holiday (The Frog Snake Charmer).Ĭourageous Cat and Minute Mouse was one of several low-budget animated series that offered local stations a mountain of episodes-like King Features’ Popeye the Sailor, Cambria’s The New Three Stooges and many others, these offered local stations the flexibility to bundle them together as one show, mix them with other cartoons and toss them in as needed if a movie ended too early. Simon Says Records M-32 (12” 33 1/3 RPM / Mono) In the story of “Around the World in a Daze” ![]() It's also a nice tune to play on the piccolo.The bargain basement Batman-like superhero from the “Wonderful World” of Sam Singer came to vinyl with an album-length comedy adventure made just for records. Some of these lyrics may have been inspired by the French music hall dancers of the time, who were known for the French Can-can. Over the years, people have put a variety of their own comedic lyrics to this familiar song, like the famous “There's a place in France where the ladies wear no pants”. Even famous composer Irving Berlin reportedly used the popular melody in his song, “Harem Nights”. ![]() The piece was also used as a basis for several songs in the early 20th century: “Hoolah! Hoolah!”, “Dance of the Midway”, “Coochi-Coochi Polka”, “Danse Du Ventre”, “Kutchi Kutchi”. The first five notes of the song are similar to the beginning of a 1719 French song named “Colin prend sa hotte”, which in turn resembles note for note an Algerian or Arabic song titled “Kradoutja”. It included an attraction called “A Street in Cairo” which featured snake charmers, camel rides and a belly dancer known as Little Egypt. ![]() Congressman) who was the entertainment director of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. The piece originally was purportedly written by Sol Bloom, a showman (and later, a U.S. ![]() This is the song that cartoons on television inevitably play every time they feature either a belly dancer or a snake charmer.
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