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"Merrily We Roll Along" is a song written by Charlie Tobias, Murray Mencher, and Eddie Cantor in 1935, and used in the Merrie Melodies cartoon Billboard Frolics that same year. It is best known as the theme of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series. The first two lines of Cantor's recording are:
The Merry Kittens: Three Kittens, Terrier May 31, 1935 Burt Gillett Shamus Culhane: Only short co-directed by Shamus Culhane. Original MPPDA production code #392, listed on credits instead of its standalone screen. 9 Parrotville Post-Office: Captain, Black Parrot, Mrs. Birdkins, Mr. Birdkins' Children June 28, 1935 Burt Gillett Tom Palmer
By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin, and the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of "Merrily We Roll Along" by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor [10] (the original theme was "Get Happy" by Harold Arlen, played at a faster tempo).
Extra in the DVD of A Tale of Two Cities (1935), along with Honeyland. January 9, 1935 7 When the Cat's Away: Rudolf Ising Extra in the DVD of Night Flight. February 16, 1935 8 The Lost Chick: Hugh Harman Additional voices are provided by Elmore Vincent. [4] March 9, 1935 9 The Calico Dragon: Rudolf Ising Extra in the DVD of Roberta (1935 ...
The Bristol-based composer, conductor and organist Arthur Warrell (1883–1939) [1] is responsible for the popularity of the carol. Warrell, a lecturer at the University of Bristol from 1909, [2] arranged the tune for his own University of Bristol Madrigal Singers as an elaborate four-part arrangement, which he performed with them in concert on December 6, 1935. [3]
Who Killed Cock Robin is a Silly Symphonies short released on June 26, 1935, by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by David Hand. [1] It is based on the nursery rhyme Who Killed Cock Robin?. It was nominated for the Best Short Subject (Cartoons) Oscar but lost to Disney's own Three Orphan Kittens.
Cookie finds a piano and plays the title song. The noise draws an octopus, who grabs her and swims off, with Buddy in pursuit. The octopus drops Cookie to fight Buddy, and does do so with some success until Buddy lures it into a pipe and ties the octopus's tentacles to a flange, then starts bashing the octopus with a battering ram.
The kitten starts to play with the feather walking down the piano keyboard and the feather lands on the 'on' switch with the kitten presses and the then-revealed pianola begins to play; ironically it is playing a variation of "Kitten on the Keys", a song composed by Zez Confrey in 1921. The other two kittens rejoin the first and play around the ...