I was watching cartoons with my kids back in the early 90s and that new "Alvin" show came on. I witnessed something that day that I'll never be able to forget:
You two are wonderful to not have looked at the properties. And hiway29 you know who they are.
As to how I found it, well I like looking for pictures. I wish I would get my butt together and stop and learn how to do songs (Sudo so graciously offered to teach me).
The older cartoons were jumpy and not so high-tech as today, but they were great fun and showed quite a bit of talent. Unlike many today that are just plain insults they're so lame! Makes me glad I ain't a spring chicken in some ways, because I got to enjoy some greatness of days past. As time goes on if we don't introduce some of this stuff to our kids and grandkids they will think Barney and Sponge Bob were actually important talents. Oh dear God, we really need to step it guys. :)-->
Keep the pictures coming, kathy. I think they're fun.
I couldn't agree with you more about keeping older animation alive. The gentlemen in the above picture may not be the best representatives of 30's animation,but they don't deserve to be forgotten.
A good Fleischer Popeye, or Betty Boop cartoon can still amaze. There are many others.
There are good cartoons being made today tho. Maybe I'm more aware since I work in the industry. As always, cartoons range from excellent to just awful. In it's own way,SpongeBob is quite good.
I haven't seen those old old cartoons in many many years. My son still watches a ton of cartoon network even though he's 14 years old but I don't think they have ANY old stuff.
Cartoon Network and most other tv stations rarely show cartoons that old-with the exception of old warner bros- and only those either in color or colorized.
The thinking is that kids will not accept b+w . They may be right, but I love b+w cartoons. And I also believe that kids will still respond to many of the old cartoons. Somehow the 3 stooges have escaped the b+w prejudice.
Plus cartoon network largely shows original stuff, and alot of Hanna Barbera and Warner bros. This is because Cartoon network is basically the result of Warner Bros having bought hanna barbera, and cartoon network has sorta sprung out as a result.
The van Beuren studio was never very popular, and really not as good as others. Still, they produced some very likeable cartoons. They acquired Fleix the cat-who was extremely popular and innovative during the silent era, pre-Disney. The Felix cartoons they made in the 30's were quite elaborate, lushly drawn, and lacking much of the imagination of the original fe;ix's.
Both incarnations have little resemblance to the Felix we grew up with. No bag of tricks, professor, or Rockbottom.
The group that made this has Memphis connections, so I thought it was just a local hit back when it came out. They had their biggest hit a year or two BEFORE this one came out but... I prefer this one. Click HERE! I don't think this group did anything BUT novelty songs and I liked most of them.
That was a big hit in Connecticut, Sudo. I always like the name of the group, with it's inconrous 'egyptian' reference, and the description of the lead singer.
In other words, I'm searching for a way to not reveal the group. I'm also racking my brain to come up with their bigger hit.
And for another tune they did that was popular(and there weren't very many) click HERE! As you listen to it, ask yourself why we don't have fun songs like that coming out and being played on the radio today.
I mean, they were so common back then. Remember Ahab the Arab?? All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth? Alvin wanting a Hula Hoop for Christmas? Even if there WERE a novelty song today, would they not be asking for something a little more vulgar at Christmas. I'm sick of of the coarsening of our culture. But I rant and rave..
Now for something that makes the heart glad and lightens the soul, click HERE! Who's doing the duet with Shirley Temple?? Ahh.. some wonderful movies.
There was a Marx Bros marathon on Turner Classics tonight and hubby was watching it off and on. They were something were they not?
Some of what they showed tonight was: Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, and Monkey Business. Some of the stuff they said really does reflect a difference in how we speak to each other, or was it just the humor? I admit to ignorance on slapstick.
See y'all tomorrow. Sorry no time to play the tunes and guess. :)-->
I guess the last real novelty songs to get any airplay were Weird Al Yankovic's stuff from the 80s and 90s. Some of his song parodies were pretty clever.
I miss that stuff too like Ray Stevens, Sam the Sham, David Seville.
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I was watching cartoons with my kids back in the early 90s and that new "Alvin" show came on. I witnessed something that day that I'll never be able to forget:
Alvin & the Chipmunks doing "Satisfaction."
That was just wrong in so many ways.
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ChattyKathy
Does anyone recognize this cartoon? And if you look at the properties you'll know so that's cheating.
But I know none of you would cheat.
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Don't know that particular one, but it looks like a Max Fleischer cartoon, no?
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hiway29
Those fellows just happen to have the same names of a more famous cat and mouse.
Not Fleischer. I don't think I'm revealing much to say that it's from the famous Van Buren studio.
The only mystery here is how did Kathy come up with this one ?
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You two are wonderful to not have looked at the properties. And hiway29 you know who they are.
As to how I found it, well I like looking for pictures. I wish I would get my butt together and stop and learn how to do songs (Sudo so graciously offered to teach me).
The older cartoons were jumpy and not so high-tech as today, but they were great fun and showed quite a bit of talent. Unlike many today that are just plain insults they're so lame! Makes me glad I ain't a spring chicken in some ways, because I got to enjoy some greatness of days past. As time goes on if we don't introduce some of this stuff to our kids and grandkids they will think Barney and Sponge Bob were actually important talents. Oh dear God, we really need to step it guys.
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Keep the pictures coming, kathy. I think they're fun.
I couldn't agree with you more about keeping older animation alive. The gentlemen in the above picture may not be the best representatives of 30's animation,but they don't deserve to be forgotten.
A good Fleischer Popeye, or Betty Boop cartoon can still amaze. There are many others.
There are good cartoons being made today tho. Maybe I'm more aware since I work in the industry. As always, cartoons range from excellent to just awful. In it's own way,SpongeBob is quite good.
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Steve!
That looks like it could be very early Disney.
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ChattyKathy
I really know nothing of it except these few facts.
The Van Bueren Studios still stand in Times Square at 729 Seventh Avenue.
Produced in 30's (31-33) by RKO and Van Bueren studios.
And I think they also did Felix the Cat and Cubby Bear.
As far as their subject matter and how they handled it I have no idea actually.
Bye y’all.
And hiway29, you know more than me so I gladly give over to your opinion.
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I haven't seen those old old cartoons in many many years. My son still watches a ton of cartoon network even though he's 14 years old but I don't think they have ANY old stuff.
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Cartoon Network and most other tv stations rarely show cartoons that old-with the exception of old warner bros- and only those either in color or colorized.
The thinking is that kids will not accept b+w . They may be right, but I love b+w cartoons. And I also believe that kids will still respond to many of the old cartoons. Somehow the 3 stooges have escaped the b+w prejudice.
Plus cartoon network largely shows original stuff, and alot of Hanna Barbera and Warner bros. This is because Cartoon network is basically the result of Warner Bros having bought hanna barbera, and cartoon network has sorta sprung out as a result.
The van Beuren studio was never very popular, and really not as good as others. Still, they produced some very likeable cartoons. They acquired Fleix the cat-who was extremely popular and innovative during the silent era, pre-Disney. The Felix cartoons they made in the 30's were quite elaborate, lushly drawn, and lacking much of the imagination of the original fe;ix's.
Both incarnations have little resemblance to the Felix we grew up with. No bag of tricks, professor, or Rockbottom.
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Yup, hiway29 you know this stuff don't ya!
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hiway29
Well,Kathy, I make my living in animation, which gives me license to be a 50 year old geek.
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Anybody up for another novelty song??
The group that made this has Memphis connections, so I thought it was just a local hit back when it came out. They had their biggest hit a year or two BEFORE this one came out but... I prefer this one. Click HERE! I don't think this group did anything BUT novelty songs and I liked most of them.
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That was a big hit in Connecticut, Sudo. I always like the name of the group, with it's inconrous 'egyptian' reference, and the description of the lead singer.
In other words, I'm searching for a way to not reveal the group. I'm also racking my brain to come up with their bigger hit.
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hiway29
That's incongrous, not inconrous. That'll teach me not to try to use big words.
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Umm, not to be anal, well, okay, to be anal, it's "incongruous".
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hiway29
Thanks Steve-from now on it's no more than 2 syllables.
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Steve!
Well, if you hadn't corrected yourself, I probably would have left it alone.
So you really work for the mouse? That's way kewl!
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Hiway29..I think THIS is the more popular song by that artist that you are thinking of.
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Thanks Bluzeman. I should have remembered that. I like the other one better.
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And for another tune they did that was popular(and there weren't very many) click HERE! As you listen to it, ask yourself why we don't have fun songs like that coming out and being played on the radio today.
I mean, they were so common back then. Remember Ahab the Arab?? All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth? Alvin wanting a Hula Hoop for Christmas? Even if there WERE a novelty song today, would they not be asking for something a little more vulgar at Christmas. I'm sick of of the coarsening of our culture. But I rant and rave..
Now for something that makes the heart glad and lightens the soul, click HERE! Who's doing the duet with Shirley Temple?? Ahh.. some wonderful movies.
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ChattyKathy
There was a Marx Bros marathon on Turner Classics tonight and hubby was watching it off and on. They were something were they not?
Some of what they showed tonight was: Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, and Monkey Business. Some of the stuff they said really does reflect a difference in how we speak to each other, or was it just the humor? I admit to ignorance on slapstick.
See y'all tomorrow. Sorry no time to play the tunes and guess.
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Here's the group that sang both those songs....is that allowed as a clue?
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This was one of my favorite song and dance numbers done by Shirley. With her costar Bill Robinson. I loved Shirley Temple movies!
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I guess the last real novelty songs to get any airplay were Weird Al Yankovic's stuff from the 80s and 90s. Some of his song parodies were pretty clever.
I miss that stuff too like Ray Stevens, Sam the Sham, David Seville.
But then there was Disco Duck.
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