'Long Haired Hare' (1949): Opera singer identified?

[Leaffan]

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?

[rowrrbazzle]

@Robot_Arm

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.

The musicians?Harpo Marx and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Here’s Harpo’s own account. Harpo Speaks! - Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber - Google Books

[Robot_Arm]

@rowrrbazzle

Here’s Harpo’s own account. Harpo Speaks! - Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber - Google Books

I came across the story in Hello Goodbye Hello, which quotes that account from Harpo.

[Robot_Arm]

@rowrrbazzle

Here’s Harpo’s own account. Harpo Speaks! - Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber - Google Books

Harpo had the last laugh, as well. Six years later, when he got to destroy a piano in A Day at the Races, it’s the Prelude in C Sharp Minor.

[Mann_Slaughter]

@Leaffan

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?

There’s the 6-DVD “Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 1-6” available at Amazon.

[Thudlow_Boink]

@Mann_Slaughter

There’s the 6-DVD “Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 1-6” 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.)

[Patch]

Are the songs Bugs is singing actual songs, or just little ditties written for the cartoon?

[Fear_Itself]

@Patch

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

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

@Fear_Itself

“A Rainy Night in Rio”. . .

Bobby Goldsboro and a Lennon Sister. (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.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

“My Gal is a High-Born Lady”

“When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba”

“It’s Magic”

- YouTube

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

My favorite version of It’s Magic.

[BMalion]

Patch, I think they’re real songs.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker

My favorite version of It’s Magic.

@BMalion

Patch, I think they’re real songs.

Not the way she sang it.

[Kenm]

Carrots are divine,
You get a dozen for a dime,
It’s Maaaaaagic.

[Lare]

Can anyone tell (uncultured) me the song being sung by Giovanni starting at about 3:10? The Wikipedia article lists several it could be.

[Hail_Ants]

@Lare

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?

[Lare]

Oops, sorry. This clip:https://archive.org/details/LongHairedHare

[astorian]

I THINK it’s from Lucia di Lammemoor.

- YouTube

[Ethilrist]

@mef1906

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?”

[Lare]

[quote=“astorian, post:38, topic:546538”]

I THINK it’s from Lucia di Lammemoor.

[/QUOTE]

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.