The Best Song Ever Sung by a Cartoon

Cafe Society
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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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Uncle Fucka.

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“Why Don’t You Do Right?”
Written by Joe McCoy
Vocal by Amy Irving
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Either that or the Nations of the World song from Animaniacs…

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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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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. :slight_smile:

Jon

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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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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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“Is You Is, Or Is You Ain’t My Baby”, as mentioned above.

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“Kiss the Girl” also wins major points (from The Little Mermaid).

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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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“kyle’s mom’s a bitch!” by cartman

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Elmer Fudd and Buggs Bunny in What’s Opera Doc? IIRC
Also Poor Unfortunate Souls from The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast as sang by Mrs. Potts.

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Man, I opened this thread just to vote for “Hello, My Baby”… and I’d like to add “Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone” also by the Frog.

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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“Oh, bwunhiwda you’we so wovewy!”
“Yass I know it! I can’t help it!”
“Oh Bwunhiwda, be my wife!”
On a more serious note. The song “Beauty and the Beast” sung by Mrs. Potts in the movie won an Oscar for best song.

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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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Actually, I think Yakko did the State Capitals.

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Boy take ten minutes to complete a post and half a dozen slip in under the radar. You only beat me to it by 8 minutes Zebra.

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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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You really are eeeeviiiiil homer. I swear, if I leave work and I’m still doing the cha-cha in my head while humming about sa–LAD!, I’m going to hunt you down and spill ink remover on you.

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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. :wink: