The Vintage Page Is Back - A Dedication To Sallie
It has been a few months since "The Vintage Page" was out of circulation. I was looking forward to write to Sallie about H.A.P.P.Y. Radio. But in the eve of Mother's Day, I see that Sallie is back...better than ever.
In honor to her page, I want to dedicate a vintage cartoon from the Merrie Melodies series "I Love To Singa".
The original tune was recorded by Al Jolson and Cab Calloway, written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, and later becoming a short-subject cartoon produced by Tex Avery. "I Love To Singa" is considered one of the top five of the Merrie Melodies series produced by Warner Brothers.
I Love to Singa depics the story of a young owlet who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a light-hearted tribute to Al Jolson's film The Jazz Singer.
The young owl is unjustly kicked out of his family's house by his disciplinarian violinist father after he is caught singing jazz instead of Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes to his mother's reed pump organ accompaniment.
While wandering, he comes across a radio amateur contest, hosted by "Jack Bunny" (a pun on Jack Benny), and billing himself as "Owl Jolson", wins the contest, but not before his father has finally see his son's potential, and allowed him to freely sing jazz.
ENJOY!!!
It has been a few months since "The Vintage Page" was out of circulation. I was looking forward to write to Sallie about H.A.P.P.Y. Radio. But in the eve of Mother's Day, I see that Sallie is back...better than ever.
In honor to her page, I want to dedicate a vintage cartoon from the Merrie Melodies series "I Love To Singa".
The original tune was recorded by Al Jolson and Cab Calloway, written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, and later becoming a short-subject cartoon produced by Tex Avery. "I Love To Singa" is considered one of the top five of the Merrie Melodies series produced by Warner Brothers.
I Love to Singa depics the story of a young owlet who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a light-hearted tribute to Al Jolson's film The Jazz Singer.
The young owl is unjustly kicked out of his family's house by his disciplinarian violinist father after he is caught singing jazz instead of Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes to his mother's reed pump organ accompaniment.
While wandering, he comes across a radio amateur contest, hosted by "Jack Bunny" (a pun on Jack Benny), and billing himself as "Owl Jolson", wins the contest, but not before his father has finally see his son's potential, and allowed him to freely sing jazz.
ENJOY!!!
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I hope to see you frequent my home at The Vintage Place- I'll be sure to be around a lot longer.
Sallie