Origin of quote - don't you believe it

[Peter Morris]

Does anyone know the origin of this quote, the words "d-o-n-'t y-o-u b-e-l-i-e-v-e i-t" in a deep booming voice. Used in a few cartoons:
Mouse Trouble (1944)
Big Top Bunny (1951)
The Missing Mouse (1953)



I get the impression that it's a reference to some movie or radio show that would be familiar to audiences in the forties and fifties. Anyone know what it is?

[DrFidelius]

Probably from :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143221/

but I cannot find a sound sample.

[Larry Mudd]

There was a series of popular radio shorts before the newsreel.

[De La Rue]

It probably influenced this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGerw6xPSxI

[Peter Morris]

Originally Posted by Larry Mudd

There was a series of popular radio shorts before the newsreel.

I don't follow what you mean. What was this series of radio shorts?

[Larry Mudd]

Originally Posted by Peter Morris

I don't follow what you mean. What was this series of radio shorts?

It was just like the newsreels, only made for radio. They ran on CBS - "The Columbia Broadcasting System." I probably still have them around somewhere in .mp3 format - at least I did c. 2000.

Passing Parade had different themes from year to year -- Don't You Believe It was similar to NBC's long-running Ripley's Believe It Or Not! series.

[Peter Morris]

So you actually have the recordings? And it contains that soundbyte?

I'd be interested to hear some of those.

[Larry Mudd]

I'll see if I can dig 'em up - I have a ridiculous amount of OTR on cd-r, but it's not obsessively catalogued or organized - just boxes of discs.