The television special Those Fabulous Funnies….which was hosted by actress Loni Anderson….provided a wonderful inside look at the history and world of The Funnies…..which were known as the comic strips in the newspapers around the USA….as it covered the genre of The Funnies from the 1920’s until 1987…. when this tv special was aired. The Funnies was originally the name of…
USA Network is currently an American pay television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBC Universal, a subsidiary of Comcast…..which was originally launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network….while being one of the first national sports cable television channels….then it was relaunched as USA Network in 1980. Once a minor player in basic-tier pay television….which has steadily…
“While Strolling Through the Park“ is a song that was used in the 1941 Mickey Mouse cartoon, The Nifty Nineties. The song was also in the album, Disney Sing Along Songs: Fun with Music…as well as 101 Notes of Fun….which was hosted by Professor Owl and Ludwig von Drake. This Sing Along Song was hugely popular….so, we thought sharing the lyrics might provide sufficient…
The song Why Sould I Worry was originally featured in the Disney animation movie Oliver and Company ….as well as one of the Sing Along Songs in their 1989 production of Fun With Music….which was hosted by Disney’s beloved Professor Owl and Ludwig von Drake. The story of the song is sung by a street dog in New York City….who is…
In 1932, the novelty song Let’s All Sing Like The Birdies Sing was written by a team of songwriters lead by English composer Tolchard Evans….as the song was recorded that year for the first time by English band leader Henry Hall. In 1933 the song was featured in the short film Betty Boop’s Halloween Party….as…
The 6th edition of Walt Disney’s animated Sing Along Songs was titled Fun With Music….which was hosted by the ever popular Disney character Professor Owl…..while featuring songs like the song “Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing”….and includes a montage with Disney birds from Bambi and the Silly Symphonies cartoon Birds in the Spring. The program was co-hosted by Professor Owl and Ludwig Von Drake….when…
Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on November 18, 1988, by Walt Disney Pictures….as the 27th Disney animated feature film….with the film being based on the classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist….which has been adapted many other times for the screen. In the film, Oliver is a homeless kitten who joins a gang of…
Professor Ludwig Von Drake is one of Walt Disney’s cartoon and comic book characters….who was first introduced on September 24, 1961, as the presenter (and singer of “The Spectrum Song”) in the cartoon An Adventure in Color….which was part of the first episode of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color on NBC. Said to be an uncle of Donald Duck, Ludwig von Drake is described as a scientist,…
In 1989, Walt Disney Animations came out with their 6th production of Disney Sing Along Songs….which featured Professor Owl and Ludwig von Drake as co-hosts for Fun With Music…..which featured a new version of the ever popular children’s song Old McDonald Has A Farm…..as introduced by Professor Owl called Old McDonald’s Has A Band….as this interpretation of the famous…