![]() ![]() (4) It has an ending that’s a bit shocking for a cartoon. 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. But in this clip, you see how charming her vocals were before her voice (and style) changed. Saturday video break: Follow the bouncing ball Aug 7th, 2010 by Charles Kuffner. 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. (2) It features Betty Boop, a cartoon character who was actually censored in the early ’30s. (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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