Well, yes, Guy, but it still gave me the willies.
I have a number of 78 records from WW’s I and II, which contain some lyrics unplayable today. One that cracks me up, though, is “Good-Bye, Mama, I’m Off to Yokahama,” with the deathless line,
"A million fightin’ sons of Uncle Sam, if you please,
Will soon have all those Japs right down on their Jap-a-knees . . . "
"A million fightin’ sons of Uncle Sam, if you please,
Will soon have all those Japs right down on their Jap-a-knees . . ."
Ever so effectively parodied by Tom Lehrer in “So Long, Mom”
Remember, mommy,
I’m off to get a commie,
So send me a salami
And try to smile somehow.
I’ll look for you when the war is over,
An hour and a half from now!
Guy - I thought a half barrel-roll put you feet skywards. Have I been gravely mistaken all this time?
Eve, along those same lines: There is a rare recording by Danny Kaye called “I Paid My Income Tax Today.” A tune in which he goes on (and on and on) about how good he feels about paying his income tax to help out the war effort. One of the lines in the tune:
“A hundred bombs to bomb Berlin,
They’re all paid for and I chipped in!
I paid my income tax today!
I’m squared up with the USA,
We have to win this war somehow,
Uncle Sam was worried but he isn’t now!
I paid my income tax today.”
I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but like 'em or hate 'em these war-era cartoons are part of our history. We can be embarassed and amazed at what and who they portray, but it’s still history. To lock them in a vault until the films deterirorate beyond all hope is wrong. This is the “Disneyfication” of our history. Suddenly we’re all sensitive about it; but back in the war years, this is how a majority of society thought-right or wrong. Look at it this way: 50 years from now we’ll probably be amazed how society treated same-sex couples. But I could be wrong.
Drollman! --Over 200 posts with a spelling mistake!
I wish I could have seen these, but crude flagrant propaganda is not just a relic from the past.
How many doctored Osama pictures did you see after he was named as the man behind 9/ 11? For thos who saw this can you tell me how sophisticated were they compared to the toons of yore?
I thought that was a very odd edit at the end of the very long gun. I was expecting the pigs to shoot but nothing happened, it just cut to the wolf.
Methinks Guy meant a quarter roll.