Songs: “Old Black Joe” “Nagasaki” and “Because My Baby Says It’s So”, another number from “The Singing Marine” recorded by Dick Powell on Decca, and in popular dance tempo by Bunny Berigan on Victor, Vincent Lopez on Melotone, and Ozzie Nelson on Bluebird (yes, Ricky’s dad could sing!).Ĭase of the Stuttering Pig (10/30/37) – Porky, Petunia, and their family are stuck in a creepy old house, as Lawyer Goodwill comes to preside over the reading of the will of their late uncle, Solomon Swine. Rover’s Rival (10/9/37) – You can’t teach an old dog new tricks – or can you? Faithful old rover is shown up by a young puppy – but age and experience prove the better virtue, as the pup can’t tell the difference between a regular stick and a stick of dynamite. This latter song would become a favorite and often-used cue by Carl Stalling for anything nautical, and receive several vocal renditions in the cartoons as well. Songs: “Hi Ho the Merri-O”, a 1926 pop song recorded widely by bands such as Irving Aaronson and his Commanders on Victor, The Knickerbockers on Columbia, and Mike Markel’s Society Band on Brunswick “I Went To the Anima Fair”, a 1924 song based upon a well-known nursery rhyme, recorded by Carl Fenton’s Orchestra with vocal by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare (The Happiness Boys) on Brunswick “Chicken Reel”, “Am I Blue”, “Farner in the Dell”, “Carolina in the Morning”, and “Song of the Marines”, from Dick Powell’s feature “The Singing Marine” (used as an underscore as a defenseless chick eats a leaf of spinach and transforms into a junior version of Popeye), recorded by Powell on Decca and as a dance record by Jimmy Ray on Bluebird. Porky grabs away the prize through the holes of a double iris out. At the judging stand, the neighbor is about to take the prize, when his flock shrinks to little chicks.
The neighbor brings his flock of fattened chickens, but is foiled by a spilled bottle of reducing pills from a medicine show hawker, which the chickens swallow like after-dinner mints.
Porky rescues this sole survivor long enough to get to the fair.
Porky thinks his large vegetables will do the trick, until his neighbor sets his chickens loose within the garden for a feeding frenzy, wiping out all the bumper crop except a large pumpkin. Both want to enter their biggest home grown item for a County Fair prize. Porky’s Garden (9/11/37) – Porky’s grown a garden, but a neighbor raises chickens. segueing into the new theme songs used for both series, “Merrily We Roll Along” for Merrie Melodies, and “The Merry Go Round Broke Down” for Looney Tunes. And early in this season, they made the zoom seem more gentle by curing it to an upwards glissando on the electric steel guitar. The zoom on the cartoons does not appear to be as fast as concurrently used on the feature films. By the beginning of the 1937-1938 season, both the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were zooming their Warner Brothers’ shields at the audience.