![]() ![]() (4) It has an ending that’s a bit shocking for a cartoon. But in this clip, you see how charming her vocals were before her voice (and style) changed. ![]() This stage legend is perhaps best known to Baby Boomers as an elderly lady belting out a song with a killer vibrato. (3) The musical portions feature a 22-year-old Ethel Merman. I’m not old enough to remember the Sing Along With Mitch TV show, but we did have a Sing Along With Mitch Christmas album when I was growing up, and I knew all those songs by heart. ![]() So Mitch Miller died this week at the age of 99. (2) It features Betty Boop, a cartoon character who was actually censored in the early ’30s. Saturday video break: Follow the bouncing ball Aug 7th, 2010 by Charles Kuffner. (1) It highlights the super-smooth and surrealistic animation of Fleischer who was Disney’s closest rival until his studio went under. It’ll be fascinating viewing for people of all ages because: Now, step back into the time machine (way before I was born) to see Disney-rival Max Fleischer’s short cartoon/live action “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” from 1930. There was a time in America when audiences would savor hand-drawn, supremely-smooth- moving animated cartoons - and even sing in the theater as they “followed the bouncing ball” that gave them the lyrics to a then-popular song. ![]()
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