# 'Long Haired Hare' (1949): Opera singer identified?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** cartoons-animation
**Created:** [July 13, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538 "2010-07-13T15:42:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/21 "2015-01-16T03:12:19Z")
I suck at searching, but I was just mentioning to a friend that a Bugs Bunny video night would be a fun idea.
Is there any kind of BB compilation DVD set?
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/22 "2015-01-16T04:58:13Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> I was reading today about an encounter between two musicians that sounds very much like the beginning of _Long Haired Hare_. They were staying in neighboring bungalows at a hotel, and both wanted to practice their respective instruments, but were each making too much noise for the other to concentrate. A loud battle ensued until one of them gave up in frustration.
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> The musicians?Harpo Marx and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Here’s Harpo’s own account. [Harpo Speaks! - Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber - Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=7Iic35XpwwQC&lpg=PA284&dq=harpo%20marx%20rachmaninoff&pg=PA284#v=onepage&q=harpo%20marx%20rachmaninoff&f=false)
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/23 "2015-01-16T06:19:40Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#):
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> Here’s Harpo’s own account. [Harpo Speaks! - Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber - Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=7Iic35XpwwQC&lpg=PA284&dq=harpo%20marx%20rachmaninoff&pg=PA284#v=onepage&q=harpo%20marx%20rachmaninoff&f=false)
I came across the story in [Hello Goodbye Hello](http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Goodbye-Circle-Remarkable-Meetings/dp/1451684517), which quotes that account from Harpo.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2015, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/24 "2015-01-16T06:40:53Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#):
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> Here’s Harpo’s own account. [Harpo Speaks! - Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber - Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=7Iic35XpwwQC&lpg=PA284&dq=harpo%20marx%20rachmaninoff&pg=PA284#v=onepage&q=harpo%20marx%20rachmaninoff&f=false)
Harpo had the last laugh, as well. Six years later, when he got to [destroy a piano](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoTyDD0C93U) in _A Day at the Races_, it’s the Prelude in C Sharp Minor.
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### Author:  [@Mann\_Slaughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mann_Slaughter)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/25 "2015-01-16T17:20:33Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> I suck at searching, but I was just mentioning to a friend that a Bugs Bunny video night would be a fun idea.
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> Is there any kind of BB compilation DVD set?
There’s the 6-DVD [“Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 1-6”](http://www.amazon.com/Looney-Tunes-Golden-Collection-6-Pack/dp/B005NFJAQC) available at Amazon.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/26 "2015-01-16T17:25:33Z")
> [@Mann\_Slaughter](#):
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> There’s the 6-DVD [“Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 1-6”](http://www.amazon.com/Looney-Tunes-Golden-Collection-6-Pack/dp/B005NFJAQC) available at Amazon.
Nitpick: it’s not 6 discs, but six 4-disc collections (that were originally sold separately). So it’d keep you busy for a while. (You can also get each volume separately. “Long-Haired Hare” is on Volume 1.)
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### Author:  [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/27 "2015-01-17T02:41:45Z")
Are the songs Bugs is singing actual songs, or just little ditties written for the cartoon?
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/28 "2015-01-17T02:48:32Z")
> [@Patch](#):
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> Are the songs Bugs is singing actual songs, or just little ditties written for the cartoon?
“A Rainy Night in Rio”
“My Gal is a High-Born Lady”
“When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba”
“It’s Magic.”
> **[Long-Haired Hare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Haired_Hare#Music)**
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> Long-Haired Hare is a 1949 American animated short film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. It was produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures as part of the Looney Tunes series, and was the 60th short to feature Bugs Bunny. In addition to including the homophones "hair" and "hare", the title is also a pun on "longhairs", a characterization of classical music lovers. Nicolai Shutorov provides the singing voice of Giovanni Jones.
> On a hillside, ...
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/29 "2015-01-18T02:06:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> “A Rainy Night in Rio”. . .
[Bobby Goldsboro and a Lennon Sister](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvzTO4cTbKU). (Eh, quality not so hot, but it was the best I could do on short notice.) My favorite version was in a Surfside Six ep, sung by series comic relief Margarita Sierra.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/30 "2015-01-18T03:10:06Z")
“My Gal is a High-Born Lady”
“When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba”
“It’s Magic”
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqcqLhRiKMY)
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/31 "2015-01-18T03:13:50Z")
My favorite version of [It’s Magic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2nLjozuW4)
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### Author:  [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/32 "2015-01-18T03:43:50Z")
**Patch** , I think they’re real songs.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/33 "2015-01-18T03:47:32Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> My favorite version of [It’s Magic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2nLjozuW4)
> [@BMalion](#):
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> **Patch** , I think they’re real songs.
Not the way _she_ sang it.
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### Author:  [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/34 "2015-01-20T20:54:32Z")
Carrots are divine,
You get a dozen for a dime,
[**It’s Maaaaaagic**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OuFbyyt8k0).
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### Author:  [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/35 "2015-01-21T02:30:45Z")
Can anyone tell (uncultured) me the song being sung by Giovanni starting at about 3:10? The Wikipedia article lists several it could be.
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### Author:  [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/36 "2015-01-21T03:37:58Z")
> [@Lare](#):
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> Can anyone tell (uncultured) me the song being sung by Giovanni starting at about 3:10? The Wikipedia article lists several it could be.
At 3:10 in which clip?
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### Author:  [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/37 "2015-01-21T13:58:50Z")
Oops, sorry. This clip:[https://archive.org/details/LongHairedHare](https://archive.org/details/LongHairedHare)
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/38 "2015-01-21T16:02:56Z")
I THINK it’s from _ **Lucia di Lammemoor.** _
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoCNZPIGHQk)
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/39 "2015-01-21T17:20:08Z")
> [@mef1906](#):
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> Sorry to post on an old thread - found it by googling some genealogy research, but: in case you ever look at it again, yes, Nicolai Shutorov (gets translated/spelled different ways; his brother, my grandfather, spelled it Shuteroff, even worse!) was a real person and he did the voice for the opera singer - he was my great-uncle, an immigrant from Russia and he sang and had a band/orchestra in LA in the 1920s- 1940s. I think he did some other voiceover work, but no one’s sure anymore what else he worked on. My mom & I inherited some of his musical instruments. He died while touring Europe just after World War II in the early 50s, and his wife who never remarried i don’t think, died a year or 2 ago, and we ended up with a lot of his music memorabilia. Just to answer your question!
I think this is a classic example of “When is it OK to resurrect a thread?”
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### Author:  [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-haired-hare-1949-opera-singer-identified/546538/40 "2015-01-22T01:49:40Z")
[quote=“astorian, post:38, topic:546538”]
I THINK it’s from _ **Lucia di Lammemoor.** _
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Yes, that’s it, thank you. Like many of my generation, most of my early exposure to classical music was due to Warner Bros. I recognize a lot from those cartoons and had always been drawn to that piece. Nice to finally know what it is.
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