A Symposium on Popular Songs is a special cartoon featurette made by the Walt Disney Company in 1962. It features songs written by the Sherman Brothers with music arrangements by Tutti Camarata.
For one, this was back when Disney actually cared about their audiences. Second, they were hardly affected by the movie theater fiasco that was happening by the end of the 1950s, when people would rather watch TV than go to the movies.
Gloria Wood also did a voice for the Looney Tunes cartoons at Warner Bros. around this time. She voiced Nelly the singing giraffe in "Nelly's Folly", which was directed by the great Chuck Jones!
So there was turn of the century ragtime, roarin 20s jazz to Charleston to, Depression music, love ballads of the New Deal, Andrews Sisters Boogie Woogie in WWII & the rock & pop music of the 50s & 60s :))
Corey Burton makes for a fine Von Drake these days, but Paul Frees' always feels so spontaneous and free-wheeling; almost like he's adlibbing the whole thing. And the animation follows along perfectly.
If I remember correctly, he actually did have a decent amount of latitude to create the character, and a lot of his dialogue was actually ad libbed. And the animation was done by masters like Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas. and Milt Kahl, so of course it’s amazing! Even Milt’s character sketches have so much energy and life to them!
The paper animation always gave me severe uncanny valley feelings...especially the microphone guy....also people make fun of people my age for saying "irregardless".....that dude from a 50s song just said it. HAH! Best part was von Drake rockin out at the end!
The songs are really good...but I mostly watch this for Ludwig's dialogue. I never get tired of hearing him talk: "...Because they don't call me 'Pops' Von Drake for nothing. They got to pay me." "I was dressed in rags all the time. Even my clothes was in rags." XD
ah the joys of watching quality disney animations when they were still original and pure rather than watching disney ruin their ultimate classic films by making remakes
@@stephenholloway6893 It WON'T be that way for long. Once I get a job at Disney as a storyboard artist, Disney will be producing original animated movies again! Remakes will be a thing of the past, and sequels will be put on hold. The Disney movies I'll make will be wholly original. Disney will be changed for the better, I guarantee it!
@@stephenholloway6893 Thanks! I will get Disney back on the right track. No more useless live action remakes, no more woke agendas. Just original stories with memorable characters and valuable morals. That's my goal. I'll do my best!
The Love Ballad Segment Is Inspired By Bing Crosby Who Worked For Disney For 1949's Ichabod And Mr Toad And The Fortune Cookie Was Based Off The Andrew's Sisters Who Did 2 Shorts With Disney Make Mine Music, Johnny Fedora And Alice Blue Bonnet And Little Toot On Melody Time
The crooner was all I saw as a kid on a Sing A Long song tape, and I was terrified of him. It’s his weird mouth. The Andrews Sisters parody is hilariously accurate to their style.
Splendid job during Flag Day dudes!!! Gloria Wood also did a voice for the Looney Tunes cartoons at Warner Bros. around this time. She voiced Nelly the singing giraffe in "Nelly's Folly", which was directed by the great Chuck Jones! Bravo.
Amazing! Love this cartoon! You've had this up since 2012 and yet this is the first time I've seen this cartoon in its entirety! As many times as I've tried to find the whole cartoon I was only able to find it in segments! I wish I knew why your upload never appeared on my scene, even though it's been here since 2012! I'm so glad I found it! Thanks for uploading it!
Hi in 2024! I heard some of these songs in a playlist I just made this morning and was like "wait I remember these animations!" so I had to come by and watch me some Ludwig
Puppy Love - yah, I'm a teenager and you're only 10 years old but you're a teenager in my eyes. WHAT? The tune is great but the lyrics are questionable.
The singer is voicing the boy character, who says, in the same line, that he's 14. That verse spells out that he'll love her as they both grow, till she's "old and grey".
Listen to this song at 14:45 makes me think about Dwight shrute from the office when he’s not wearing his suit jacket we’re talking black jeans black shoes white short sleeve button shirt black tie and Blythe Baxter from littlest pet shop when she’s wearing her turquoise tanktop long pink skirt shell necklace pink bow hair band and wavy hair
Well. Due to dated racial stereotypes they wouldnt wish to put it on there. Though they could easily slap on the representation and equality warning before people watch it like they did on some of the muppets episodes..
Or choose to drop the Andrew Sisters segment altogether. Including Von Drake's scene leading to them. But it definitely better of they have the disclaimer.
They ought to remake this series having Ryan Reynolds take the lead with Kevin Hart as his Captain. Either as a limited series or a movie will be great. Retain the 80s/90s vibe so that cancel culture won't bother about being triggered.
Wow! The film was made a year before my birth! I have never seen it. Absolutely not like the usual Disney, except for scenes with Ludwig. I began to make films in a similar style only after 45 years.
Rutabaga Rag 2:22 - 3:54 Charleston Charlie 5:08 - 6:59 Although I dropped $100,000 in the market 8:08 - 9:56 I’m blue for you boo boo boo boo boo 10:18 - 11:38 Boogie Woogie bakery man 11:55- 14:14 Puppy love is here to stay 14:36 - 16:49 & Rock,Rumble N Roll/ final 18:01 - 19:39 Which one your favorite
OMG! Used to have this on old VHS when I was a kid... until it wore out. It was featured as part of the Donald Duck Presents segment on those Disney Channel Volume Sets. Volume 9 I think it was from memory. Even as a kid, the only "good" songs I enjoyed were the final two but Ludwig always was a mad-one. 😳🤣
18.10 One can almost date the impact of pop music from the time when cartoonists drew guitars with six strings, and noted that electric guitars do not plug directly into wall sockets.
My favorite part is always when Ludwig does his 'Rock & Roll' routine, dirty leather jacket, hopping -- A CRACK UP! I'm sorry....but saying 'quack up' is just too stupid -- hah hah.
Very good job fellows throughout the 4th patriotic longest felicitous family symposium experience week of said mega melifflous surfside Summer July!! Congratulations 871% yo. Gloria Wood also did a voice for the Looney Tunes cartoons at Warner Bros. around this time. She voiced Nelly the singing giraffe in "Nelly's Folly", which was directed by the legendary great Chuck Jones!
Paper animation is not new. Companies like Disney did it 60 years ago and earlier. Someone is doing something now with paper and computers, but it's not new.
These songs are all brilliant spoofs - NOT parodies. A parody is just a cheap imitation of a song adding crude and broad jokes (I'm looking at you, Seth McFarlane!) but a Spoof is clever and subtle send up of a music style that is still unique and catchy in its own right. That's what the Shermans understood that so many cartoon creators nowadays just don't get.
This cartoon was on Disney warner bros mgm Hanna Barbara franchise is one of the era that did not use Mel blanc or Tony anselmo Mika kanai Kae araki Russi Taylor voice so instead paul frees for the voices of Boris cousin muscles Alan young as haggis mchaggis Benny Goodman and Donald novis as the voice of pillow dog
Really? old cartoons were full of that stuff....I get more uncomfortable by the animation of the fucking paper people than anything else....talk about uncanny valley....
It's certainly period accurate for the forties, at least. Look up the Andrews Sisters song "Civilization" (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo). And that's actually relatively tame.
This is The Walt Disney that we all grew up liking and highly valuing, way before the likes of 21st Century Disney and Bob Iger, and these woke rodents who push and peddle LGBTQ values onto children today-and the total harm that these corporates have done to the once, great image of the late Walt Disney, who made a living making great family classics and superior animation, like "A SYMPOSIUM ON POPULAR MUSIC" from 1962-rich and pure with solid entertainment for the whole family to enjoy, and Tutti Camarata, the expert music composer that scored these great musical numbers in this animated short, complemented with "The Voice of Hollywood" himself, the late, great Paul Frees as the voice of "Ludwig Von Drake", you just won't find this kind of Disney entertainment today, which has been replaced by Marvel, Star Wars, and the lousiest collection of rotten remakes of Walt Disney's classic animated and live action masterpieces, through unimpressive CGI computer animation, which is such a cheat- along with the highly unwise acquisition of what was once 20th Century Fox, that its less then wise (and stupid) owner, Rupert Murdoch foolishly sold to Disney, which ended an 85-year history of a once great American Hollywood studio, that now belongs to The House of Rodent, who rebranded it as 20th Century Studios-also stupid. 21st Century Disney has become a serious stain on the once great family friendly empire that they used to be about-and Bob Iger, who was brought back to replace Bob Chapek thinks that he can steer Disney back onto a better course-Too Later, Bob! the damages have already been done!
