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"Coconut" is a novelty song written [3] and first recorded by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, released as the third single from his 1971 album, Nilsson Schmilsson. It was on the U.S. Billboard charts for 14 weeks, reaching #8, [4] and was ranked by Billboard as the #66 song for 1972. It charted in a minor way in the UK, reaching #42 ...
The short opens with a scene of a full moon reflecting on water lined with palm trees. "Thru' the Courtesy of Love" (Scholl/Jerome) plays during the opening scene. The camera pans to the Coo-Coonut Grove, 'Dine and Dance with the Stars', reflecting the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel, where many Academy Award shows were held in the 1930s ...
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The film was produced in May 1929 and shown by the two to various distributors. The film was first made viewable to the public on Cartoon Network's television special Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons on March 12, 2000, in an edited form. The full cartoon is present on disc 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 as a special feature.
The song was published by Box and Cox Publications (ASCAP). The song celebrates the coconut shy (coconut toss) at funfairs , and the chorus of "Roll or bowl a ball a penny a pitch" [ 2 ] is based on the call of the showman "standing underneath the flare" (of gaslight), inviting the public to play.
The hymn proved popular: in 1907, John Julian, in his Dictionary of Hymnology, stated it was the most popular Palm Sunday hymn in the English language at that time. [3] The hymn is viewed to be full of dramatic irony. [5] The third line of the first verse "Thine humble beast pursues his road" has been disliked by some hymn book editors.
The cartoon starts with an owl named "Owl Kott" (satirizing Alexander Woollcott's Town Crier radio program) giving an introduction to the festivities. This is followed by a Ben Bernie caricature called "Ben Birdie", feuding with "Walter Finchell". The same spoof was used in the cartoon The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936).
The Popeye Song Folio is a collection of 24 songs issued by Popular Melodies, Inc. 1619 Broadway, New York City in 1936. They contain the tunes played in the various Popeye cartoon short series directed by Dave Fleischer .