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05-30-2003, 11:17 AM
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The Best Song Ever Sung by a Cartoon
Once a long, long time ago (BCS-- before Cafe Society) in a thread far, far away I remarked that Sugar, Sugar was the best song ever sung by a cartoon. It didn't take two post before someone corrected me: Sugar, Sugar wasn't actually sung by cartoon characters. It was sung by studio musicians who pretended to be cartoon characters. I never did thank that poster for lifting the scales from my eyes.
I still think Sugar, Sugar is one of the best songs ever sung by a cartoon, just beating out Josie and the Pussycats (long tails and ears for hats!) but The Archies have been replaced at the very top of the list by Unaesta. Unaesta is an unseen band in GTA: Vice City and they sing the most ass-wiggling, kick-ass, ass-stomping song ever sung by would-be animations-- La Vida Es Una Lenteja. Too bad this song will never get any airplay. What do you think is the best song ever sung by a cartoon? P.S. La Vida Es Una Lenteja translates into, I believe, Life Is a Lentil. Sample lyric: GET UP!! and go to the refrigerator! RockStar North have a strange sense of humor. 
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#2
05-30-2003, 11:27 AM
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Uncle Fucka.
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05-30-2003, 11:41 AM
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A tie:
When You Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio St. James Infirmary Blues from Snow White (Betty Boop short)
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#5
05-30-2003, 11:48 AM
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I'm partial to the classics..."Hello My Baby" by the Warner Bros frog and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" By Tom (of Tom and Jerry of course). But then again, I'd go along with the Nations Of The World song too.
OH! And don't forget the Jetsons classic "Oop Eep Ork", and that one song fred Flintstone sung..."There's a place I know where the four winds blow called Bedrock, twist twist...." Fred coulda been a rock and roll contender if it wasn't for Wilma holding him back.  Jon
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05-30-2003, 11:53 AM
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Rabbit of Seville, "Come into my shop, let me cut your mop, daintily, daintily..."
Elmer J Fudd "Kill the Wabbit, kill the Wabbit" Animaniacs Wakko "Wakko's World" and "State Capitals"
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#7
05-30-2003, 12:04 PM
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I've been partial to "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid
Other choices: "What is Your Order?" from Daffy's Duck Hunt (a reworking of Harry Warren's "The Latin Quarter.") "Gaston" from Beauty and the Beast Wagner's "Ring Cycle" (excerpts) in What's Opera Doc?
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#10
05-30-2003, 12:28 PM
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Anything in a Betty Boop cartoon, from Cab Calloway's hot jazz, to the toonland jazz of Grampy.
Sharon Apple's signature tune in Macross Plus. Hypnotic.
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05-30-2003, 12:40 PM
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Also Poor Unfortunate Souls from The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast as sang by Mrs. Potts.
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#13
05-30-2003, 12:46 PM
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BTW, The Violent Femmes do a great cover of "Eep-Epp-Ork-Uh-Uh" on an album called "Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits".
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#15
05-30-2003, 12:49 PM
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To hijack here for a moment, Disney Channel occasionally runs clips of their cartoons set to classic rock. The one they did for "Heart of Rock and Roll" was brilliant!
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05-30-2003, 12:52 PM
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The first songs I thought of were the "Nations of the World" from Animaniacs, or the Hillbilly song by Bugs Bunny.
Or, from the Simpsons, "Who Needs the Quickie Mart". For sheer stick-in-the-headedness, "You Don't Make Friends With Salad!".
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05-30-2003, 12:58 PM
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05-30-2003, 01:15 PM
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"When She Loved Me," from Toy Story. Play the song and break out the hankies...
Runner up to "Blame Canada," from the South Park movie, just for the sheer silliness of the idea. 
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#21
05-30-2003, 01:16 PM
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The Dickies also did an excellent cover of Eep Op Ork, as well as the Gigantor theme.
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#22
05-30-2003, 01:27 PM
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I don't want to be overly pedantic (well, actually I do) but we're mixing things up a little here. Some of these songs were written expressly for the cartoons, like Sugar Sugar, while others were songs that pre-date the cartoons in which they were included. "Is You Is" was written by Louis Jordan and Bill Austin in 1944. "Why Don't You Do Right" was written by Joe McCoy (as Ethilrist notes) in 1941. "Hello My Baby" was written in 1899, and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" was written in 1930 by Bee Palmer, Sam Stept, and Sidney Clare. "The Great McCloskey Fight", however, is a WB original.
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#24
05-30-2003, 01:36 PM
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Some good ones mentioned so far...but it's no contest: the Snorky episode ("There's No Such Thing as a Sea Serpent") of Beany & Cecil.
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#25
05-30-2003, 01:50 PM
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All of the songs in "One Froggy Evening" are brilliantly executed. I have had "The Michigan Rag" in my head for approximately 3.47% of my life. (Second only to Del Shannon's "Runaway" at 4.13%)
As for the Simpson's, l'll nominate "See My Vest," "Planet of the Apes--The Musical" and the song about the brothel whose name escapes me.
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#26
05-30-2003, 02:10 PM
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That would be "We Put the Spring in Springfield".
I would have to say it's a tie between three songs from Anastasia: "Once Upon a December", "Journey to the Past" and "At the Beginning". Probably "Once Upon a December".
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#27
05-30-2003, 02:14 PM
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Yet another vote for Yakko's World ( I have it on 2 cd's)
"United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru. Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean, Greenland, El Salvadore too" And "Monorail" by the cast of the Simpsons.
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05-30-2003, 02:35 PM
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For the not written for, but performed by, the cartoon section - "Why Don't You Do Right?"
For the written for a cartoon section - movies- "Kiss The Girl," (ballad), "Gaston" (ensemble number), "Everybody Wants to be a Cat," (great song in the middle of a questionable film) and "The Siamese Cat Song" (they're on screen for what, 2 minutes? And they steal the show with that one). And for television - "Conjunction Junction"
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#31
05-30-2003, 02:38 PM
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I have to live up to the name once and a while. Besides, if you hum/sing loud enough, everyone will join in. What a way to start the weekend! Of course, I personally prefer (to the same tune) :I am Evil Homer! I am Evil Homer! I am Evil Homer! I am Evil Homer! So easy to remember, so hard to forget.
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#32
05-30-2003, 02:39 PM
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Re: The Best Song Ever Sung by a Cartoon
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#33
05-30-2003, 02:45 PM
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In addition to some already mentioned, I've always been partial to
"I Just Can't Wait to Be King" from The Lion King "God Help the Outcast" and "Hellfire" from Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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#35
05-30-2003, 02:51 PM
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For all its faults Rock and Rule has some excellent songs;
songs by Cheap Trick / Debbie Harry / Lou Reed / with Iggy Pop / and a special performance by Earth, Wind and Fire Send Love Through, Pain and Suffering...
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#36
05-30-2003, 03:27 PM
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#38
05-30-2003, 03:32 PM
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Another vote for "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch," from South Park.
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#39
05-30-2003, 03:39 PM
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There's a Yosemite Sam song that I sing to my dog (much to my husband's chagrin):
Oh, I can't get along little doggie, Oh, I can't even get one that's small, Oh, I can't get along little doggie, Oh, I can't get a doggie at all. I love the music in all of the Looney Toons cartoons, especially Bugs.
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#42
05-30-2003, 03:48 PM
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They fight and bite, They fight and fight and bite, Fight fight fight Bite bite bite... [/correction] as evidenced by "The Day The Violence Died" where they did the last episode of I&S They fought and bit, They fought and fought and bit. Fought fought fought Bit Bit Bit...
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#43
05-30-2003, 03:59 PM
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For sheer stick-in-your-memory value, I've always loved "I Love to Singa", the song which lent its title to a classic WB/Tex Avery Jazz Singer tribute with little "Owl Jolson" who defied his traditional mama and papa to follow his heart.
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#45
05-30-2003, 04:46 PM
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Seriously, Sarah MacLachlan's When She Loved Me from Toy Story II even gets me choked up.
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#47
05-30-2003, 04:51 PM
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Some good choices in here. For "Schoolhouse Rock," though, I'd say it's a tie between "Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla" (thank you, pronouns!) or "Verb (That's What's Happening)".
The Bedrock "Twitch" song is another good choice. But my vote goes to "Don't Put Marbles In Your Nose," from "Home Movies," if only for the accompanying Quiet Riot-style video. "Don't put marbles in your nose Put them in there Do not put them in there"
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#49
05-30-2003, 05:13 PM
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What's Opera Doc is good, of course, but The Rabbit of Seville is far better, IMHO:
Hey yeeeew! Welcome to my shop! Let me cut your mop Let me shave your crop! Dain-tily Dain-tily Hey you!! Don't look so perplexed Why must you be vexed? Can't you see you're next Yes. You're next, you're so next! How about a nice close shave Teach your whiskers to behave Lotsa lather, lotsa soap Please hold still, don't be a dope! Now we're ready for the scraping there's no use to try escaping Yell and scream and rant and rave It's no use you need a shave! There. You're nice and clean. Although...your face looks like it mighta gone t'rough a...ma..chine. OR, how about the one with Bugs vs Giovanni Jones? Bugs: She's a fancy stepper when she dances Go and see her as she kippers and prances My gal don't do much talking Dances even when she's walking Giovanni, unable to contain himself bursts in: One and two and three and four she dances all day long Bugs: Oh my gal is a high part stepper Ginger with salt and pepper She's a fancy stepper when she dances Go and see her as she kippers and prances Then, of course, Giovanni squishes Bugs's head in the harp. What's weird is that the lyrics are a HUGE improvement over the original ragtime tune Fenris
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#50
05-30-2003, 05:13 PM
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(And yes, "When She Loved Me" was from Toy Story II)
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