Oh How I Wish Again I Was in Michigan Down on the Farm Cartoon

"Start your day with a song

And sing the whole 24-hour interval through

Fifty-fifty while you're busy working

Do just like the birdies practice!

Though the day may be long

Y'all never will get wrong

Low central, high key, any quondam primal

But start your twenty-four hour period with a song!"

Screen Songs is the name of a series of animated cartoons produced past the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1938, serving as a sister series to Talkartoons. They were revived by Famous Studios in 1945 starting with the Noveltoons short "When Chiliad.I. Johnny Comes Abode". It morphed into Kartunes by mid-1951 later Max Fleischer sued Paramount over the use of both the serial name and the words "billowy brawl", and lasted to 1953—1954, if you count the Noveltoons short "Candy Cabaret", which follows the aforementioned format every bit the previous cartoons. The formula was tried ane last time in the 1963 Noveltoon "Hobo's Holiday".

A quick history of the series tin be found here.

Filmography

1929

The Sidewalks of New York (East Side, West Side) February v 1929
Yankee Doodle Boy March ane 1929
Erstwhile Black Joe April 5 1929
Ye Olde Melodies May 3 1929
Daisy Bong (A Bicycle Built for Two) May 31 1929
Female parent, Pin a Rose on Me July half dozen 1929
Chinatown, My Chinatown Chinese August ii 1929
Dixie Baronial 17 1929
Adieu My Lady Honey August 31 1929
My Pony Male child September 13 1929
Smiles Male Vocal Quartet September 27 1929
Oh You Beautiful Doll Tommy True cat October fourteen 1929
After the Brawl Charles K. Harris November eight 1929
Put on Your Former Grayness Bonnet Animal Quartet November 22 1929
I've Got Rings on My Fingers Irish Traffic Cop December 17 1929

1930

Bedelia January 3 1930
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree Bears January eighteen 1930
I'g Afraid to Come Home in the Nighttime Bimbo February 1 1930
The Prisoner'south Song Prisoners March 1 1930
I'thousand Forever Blowing Bubbling Mice March xv 1930
La Paloma Dog April 12 1930
Yep, We Have No Bananas April 26 1930
Come Take a Trip in My Airship Kitty Apr 26 1930
In the Adept Old Summertime Cats June half dozen 1930
A Hot Time in the Quondam Town Tonight Drunken Mice Baronial one 1930
The Glow Worm Baronial 23 1930
The Stein Song Hot Dog Vendor September half dozen 1930
Strike Up the Ring (Here Comes a Sailor) September 27 1930
My Gal Sal Chubby Canis familiaris Oct 18 1930
Mariutch November 15 1930: First Screen Song that Grim Natwick worked on.
On a Sun Afternoon Dog Woman November 29 1930
Row, Row, Row Bad Dog December 20 1930

1931

Please Go 'Mode and Let Me Slumber Sheriff Jan 10 1931
Past the Beautiful Sea Mouse January 24 1931
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now White Boy True cat February 14 1931
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain Boy Dog March vii 1931
Somebody Stole My Gal Boy Dog March xx 1931
Any Little Girl That'south a Nice Piffling Girl Tommy Cat and Betty Boop prototype Apr 18 1931
Alexander's Ragtime Band Canis familiaris May 9 1931
And the Light-green Grass Grew All Around Male child Fly 1931 May 30
My Wife's Gone to the Country Bimbo and (briefly) Betty Boop May 31 1931
That Old Gang of Mine Lady Alley Cat July 11 1931
Betty Co-ed Rudy Vallee and Betty Boop prototype August 1 1931
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean Gallagher and Shean Baronial 29 1931
You're Driving Me Crazy Jungle Animals September 19 1931
Little Annie Rooney (1931) October 10 1931
Kitty from Kansas Urban center Rudy Vallee and Betty Boop October 31
Past the Light of the Silvery Moon Eddie Cantor Nov 14 1931
My Baby Only Cares for Me Eddie Cantor December v 1931
Russian Lullaby Arthur Tracy December 26 1931

1932

Sweet Jennie Lee Jean Harlow January 9 1932
Show Me the Way to Get Home Eddie Cantor January 30 1932
When the Reddish, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along Joan Crawford February 19 1932
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie The Round Towners Quartet, Betty Boop March 4 1932
Just One More Chance Betty Boop April 1 1932
Oh! How I Detest to Get Up in the Morning Les Reis and Artie Dunn, Betty Boop April 22 1932
Polish On Harvest Moon Alice Joy May 6 1932
Permit Me Call You Sweetheart Ethel Merman and Betty Boop May xx 1932
I Ain't Got Nobody The Mills Brothers June 17 1932
Y'all Try Somebody Else Ethel Merman and Betty Boop July 29 1932
Rudy Vallee Melodies Rudy Vallee and Betty Boop August 5 1932
Down Amid the Sugar Pikestaff Lillian Roth Baronial 26 1932
Just a Gigolo Irene Bordoni and Betty Boop September 9 1932
School Days Gus Edwards September 30 1932
Romantic Melodies Arthur Tracy and Betty Boop October 21 1932
When It's Sleepy Fourth dimension Down S The Boswell Sisters November 11 1932
Sing a Song James Melton December 2 1932
Time on My Hands Ethel Merman and Betty Boop December 23 1932

1933

Dinah Mills Brothers January 13 1933
Own't She Sweet? Lillian Roth Feb 3 1933
Reaching for the Moon Arthur Tracy February 23 1933
Aloha Oe Royal Samoans March 17 1933
Popular Melodies Arthur Jarrett and Betty Boop Apr 7 1933
The Peanut Vendor Armida April 28 1933
Song Shopping Ethel Merman and Johnny Green May 19
Boilesk The Watson Sisters June nine 1933
Sing, Sisters, Sing Three Ten Sisters June three 1933
Downwardly by the Old Manufacturing plant Stream The Eton Boys July 21 1933
Stoopnocracy Stoopnagle and Budd August eighteen 1933
When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba The Mills Brothers September xv 1933
Boo Boo Theme Song Funnyboners October 13 1933
I Like Mountain Music The Eton Boys November ten 1933
Sing, Babies, Sing Baby Rose Marie December fifteen 1933

1934

Keeps Rainin' All The Time Gertrude Niesen Jan 12 1934
Let's All Sing Similar the Birdies Sing Les Reis and Artie Dunn February nine 1934
Tune Up and Sing Lanny Ross March 9 1934
Lazy Bones Borrah Minnevitch and His Harmonica Rascals April 13 1934
This Fiddling Piggie Went to Market place Singin' Sam May 25 1934
She Reminds Me of Yous The Eton Boys June 22 1934
Beloved Thy Neighbour Mary Small July 20 1934
Let's Sing with Popeye: (Billy Costello) Produced for Saturday morning matinee "Popeye Guild". Later re-released by Official Films in the 1950s.

1935

I Wished on the Moon Abe Lyman and his Orchestra September xx 1935
Information technology's Easy to Recollect Richard Himber and his Orchestra November 29 1935

1936

No Other One Hal Kemp and His Orchestra / Skinnay Ennis January 24 1936
I Experience Like a Feather in the Cakewalk Jack Denny and his Orchestra March 27 1936
I Don't Desire to Make History Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra May 22 1936
The Hills of Wyomin The Westerners / Short Massey July 31 1936
I Tin't Escape From Yous Billie Bailey / Joe Reichman and His Orchestra September 25 1936
Talking Through My Heart Dick Stabile and his Orchestra Nov 27 1936

1937

Never Should Take Told Yous Nat Brandwynne and His Orchestra Jan 29 1937
Twilight On the Trail The Westerners / Brusque Massey March 26 1937
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams Barbara Blake / Henry King and his Orchestra May 28 1937
You Came to My Rescue Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra July xxx 1937
Whispers in the Nighttime June Robbins / Gus Arnheim and his Orchestra September 24 1937
Magic on Broadway Jay Freeman November 26 1937

1938

You lot Took the Words Right Out of My Heart January 28 1938
Cheers for the Memory March 25 1938
You lot Leave Me Incoherent May 27 1938
Beside a Moonlit Stream Eddie Cantor July 29 1938

1947

The Circus Comes to Clown Circus December 26 1947

1948

Base Ball Tommy Tortoise January 23 1948
Little Brown Jug Animals February 20 1948
The Aureate State March 12 1948
Winter Draws On Recorded on Nov 17, 1995 Buzzy March 19 1948
Sing or Swim Animals June 16 1948
Camp Town Races Farm Animals July 30 1948
The Lone Star State Cowboys August 20 1948
Readin', Ritin' and Rhythematic October 22 1948

1949

The Funshine State January 7 1949
The Emerald Isle Lephechauns February 25 1949
Comin' Round the Mount Hillbilly Cats March eleven 1949
The Stork Market Storks April 8 1949
Spring Song Flowers June 3 1949
The Ski's the Limit June 24 1949
Toys Will Be Toys Toys July 15 1949
Farm Foolery Subcontract Animals August 5 1949
Our Funny Finny Friends Fish Baronial 26 1949
Union Wows Recorded on October eighteen, 1994 Bertha September xvi 1949
The Big Flame-Up Tim Turtle September xxx 1949
Strolling Thru the Park Nov four 1949
The Big Drip Buzzy the Crow Nov 25 1949
Snow Foolin' Animals Dec sixteen 1949

1950

Blue Hawaii Hawaiians Jan thirteen 1950
Detouring Thru Maine February 17 1950
Short'nin' Breadstuff Baker March 24 1950
Win, Place and Showboat Elephant Apr 28 1950
Jingle Jangle Jungle Ubangis May 19 1950
Heap Hep Injuns Indians June 30 1950
Gobs of Fun Herman the Mouse July 28 1950
Helter Swelter Animals August 25 1950
Boos in the Nite - Ghosts - September 22, 1950
Fiesta Time Mexicans Oct twenty 1950
Fresh Yeggs Wolfie Nov 17 1950

1951

Tweet Music Birds Feb nine 1951
Drippy Mississippi April 13 1951
Miners Forty Niners Gold Miners May xviii 1951
Sing Over again of Michigan Buzzy the Crow June 29 1951: Terminal of the Screen Songs.
Vegetable Vaudeville (1951): Serial changes into "Kartunes" from here on out.
Snooze Reel (1951)
Off We Glow (1951)

1952

Fun At the Fair (1952)
Dizzy Dinosaurs (1952)
Gag and Luggage (1952)
Woods Fantasy (1952)

1953

Hysterical History (1953)
Philharmaniacs (1953)
Aero-Nutics (1953)
Invention Convention (1953)
No Place Like Rome (1953): Last Kartune.

1954

Candy Cabaret (1954): Technically a Noveltoons short, but follows the same format equally the previous shorts.

Tropes:

Animated Music Video: The whole reason for the serial beingness.
Biting-the-Hand Humor: In "Toys Will exist Toys" During the parade a wind-up Popeye toy rolls out watering a can of spinach, which produces a boxing glove and socks the sailor in the face. This was probably an outlet from those on the Famous Studios Staff who weren't happy with the quality of the Popeye shorts beingness made...
Cuckoo Clock Gag: In I'm Afraid to Come up Home in the Nighttime, a large clocktower has a cuckoo bird emerge when the clock strikes 3:00 in the morning. The bird gets caught in the door earlier it backs all the fashion in, and information technology so reemerges with a bandage on its neck.
Follow the Billowy Ball: A authentication of the serial. Indeed, it is the Trope Maker.
Medium Blending: While animated, the Fleischer Screen Songs would often include alive-activeness footage of many pop orchestras and singers of the day, some of which interacted with regular characters, similar Betty Boop and later on, Wiffle Piffle, a brusk, bald man.
Public Domain Blitheness: Many of the Famous Studios Screen Songs have expired copyrights, allowing them to appear on "bargain-bin" Public Domain collections.
Public Domain Soundtrack: In add-on to using licensed songs (often featured on so-current Paramount films), the shorts often employed traditional music cues (i.e. in "My Baby Only Cares For Me", when the protagonist finds a equus caballus, a snippet of "The Onetime Grayness Mare" plays).
Spiritual Successor: The "Kartunes" shorts were just Screen Songs with a new name attached to them.
- The Screen Songs themselves are a successor to the Song Car-Tunes that Fleischer had made in the late 1920's, notable for experimenting with sound a couple of years before the premiere of Steamboat Willie.
- Disney Sing-Along Songs successfully brought the "follow the bouncing ball" concept to a new generation from 1986-2006, (generally) alternative songs from existing Disney films. Screen Songs weren't foreign to Disney, either, as a segment of the "Jingle Bells" sequence from Snow Foolin' (by then in the public domain) was used in Very Merry Christmas Songs (1988).

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