The voice of Pete Parrott, the star of this cartoon, was my late Dad . . .1930's child star Robert Winkler. I still have the script to this in our scrapbooks! He was always playing pushy, loud, tough kid parts. He starred in over 80 films and 200 radio shows with all the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood! He was the kindest man on Earth! Boy, I sure miss him!
wooow thnx for this for yrs since a kid when i first saw this cute little guy it always stuck in my head that song he sang and every now and then it will just pop up in my head i just so happen to be up late this morning which is 4:16 am here in texas i dont know why this just pooped in my head yet again ive always wanted to find this episode to watch and hear him sing that song which he sang with much conviction which cracked me up everytime so that i can watch it as much as i want so this time when it popped in my head i was like girl go search for this cartoon so that i can have it in my collection and i did and boy am i ever glad i did i searched for little cartoon bird singing im a buccaneer and i saw what i thought was the little guy holding that little long gun or rifle marching chest sticking out all proud singing his little song but nooo that was yosemite sam in that big red hat of his burying his treasure chest and bugs pops up on him the title of that cartoon is what threw me to it and threw me off it was the episode bugs bunny buccaneer parrot boy was i ever disappointed so i then look at the very first search result and this time i looked much closer and yes i saw the little guy on the video i immediately clicked on the link and went to youtube and ding ding ding my prayers were answered i found my cartoon which is the ‘i wanna be a sailor’ episode i was jumping for joy in my head i had been wondering about this for years but was just either to busy and would forget to or just to lazy to search for it or just keept putting it off well not this time i was up late yet again nothing really all that good on tv so i did the search and VIOLA i found it so a big huge thnk u for this i dont know if u posted it or not im just so happy it was and sorry for your lost i just lost my step dad in 2015 and all my sissies but different dates i can just imagine how hard it is when ever u do go through his things and all those memories start rushing right back so i get it im the same way when i think about them my sisters it could be a song a music video and laaaawd a picture that sometime does it for me but its a really good comfort to have those memories your dad gave us such really good work well im a 70’s kid so i watched his work as a kid i was born in 69 and i still love watchn all my old cartoon favorites and those black and white films so he was in very good awesome company i have all of my shirley temple little rascals blondie and dagwood three stooges laurel and hardy abbot and costello honey mooners i love lucy father knows best leave it to beaver andy griffith dennis the menace donna reed my three sons and gomer pyle i can on and on as i just did but these were great and still is and your dad was apart of all of that wooow it must have been terribly awesome to grow up with him he is a legend and now that i know who the voice belonged to or who was the voice of the little bird is an added bonus again thnk u so very much now im gonna go and google your dad to read more about him ooooh one more thing my favorite movie little lord fauntleroy i had such a huge crush on freddie bartholemew i was a kid and thought he was soooo cute and wise beyond his years in that movie my favorite scene is when he gives the guy an engraved pocket watch it goes when this u see remember me whooo that took my breath away and i was a little kid no less well sorry for this very long comment it was just on my heart to let u know how i felt so im gonna go watch this awesoeme little gem and enjoy and google search for dad thnx dee dee stay safe
Released: September 25, 1937 Re-released: April 30, 1949 Supervision: Fred ("Tex") Avery Story: J. B. ("Bugs") Hardaway Animation: Paul Smith Assistant Animation: Virgil Ross, Sid Sutherland, Irven Spence, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Bobe Cannon, Cecil Surry, Elmer Wait Musical Direction: Carl W. Stalling
Despite being the first release of the 1937-38 season, this could most certainly have been made much earlier in '37, possibly even late '36. For one thing, Bob Clampett was said to have worked on this before he and Chuck Jones left Tex Avery for Ub Iwerks during 1937.
No, because the end title music is not the same as the season before. Same goes with _The Lyin' Mouse_ which was the first WB short to feature a story credit on-screen, in that case Ted Pierce.
She's singing a line from "Old Black Joe". " I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low" It's an old Stephen Foster song. Paul Robeson, the great African American bass (the "Old Man River" dude from Show Boat), released a pretty popular version of it in 1936, not long before this cartoon came out. Meaningless to the plot of the cartoon, but even back then, writers snuck in pop culture references and topical humor.
"CALLING ALL CARS" also happened to be a popular syndicated radio series in the mid-'30s (primarily on the West Coast, which Tex and his fellow animators enjoyed listening to), utilizing a police dispatcher spelling out the title {"Calling all cars, calling all cars..."}.
GUYS. he says "FOR I'M A BUCCANEER!" it was actually illegal to use cuss words in cartoons that could be shown to minors back then, even though most Looney Tunes were mostly aimed towards adults, kids still watched them.
This was first released in September 1937 (this is the 1950 reissue}, and directed by Fred "Tex" Avery, featuring several of his trademark gags (including the finish)...
@Hotshotter3000 Sure. You are dead on. Old cartoons were full of gags with topical, cultural, and even historical references. They expected a little more from their audiences than modern stuff.
@testodude That's true, too. But remember, there was no TV at the time (actually there was, but it was in its infancy and still highly experimental with no movies or dedicated programs for it), so all cartoons where shown at cinemas, and most people who go there would have been adults with young children only being there with their parents.
