Review
Sung by Frances Langford. It's Melody Time The memory of wintertime long ago, of clear, crisp air and new-fallen snow, of frost on a windowpane, of sleigh-bells heard from the lane. In this wonderland, romance is the theme, for this is the story of love's young dream. Don't you kind of love December When the merry snowbells chime?
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With Freddy Martin, an admirer of the classics, inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee, interprets this fantasy in his unique style. In a furious flight, a confused character tries to escape from the hectic harmony of an instrumental nightmare.
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The Old Settler Johnny Appleseed and Johnny's Angel portrated by Dennis Day. In American folklore, mighty men have left the symbols of their greatness. There was Paul Bunyan's axe. John Henry's hammer. Davy Crockett's rifle. Then, unexpectedly, one comes upon a tinpot hat, a bag of appleseed and a holy book. These are the symbols of one of the mightiest men of all, John Chapman, a real-life pioneer. Today, we know him simply as Johnny Appleseed.
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Based on the story also titled Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky, in which the title protagonist, a small tugboat, wanted to be just like his father Big Toot, but couldn't seem to stay out of trouble. The Andrews Sisters provide the vocals. Excitement and harmony for three in this story of adventure on the sea.
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Poem by Joyce Kilmer, music by Oscar Rasbach, arrangement by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. There's poetry in trees. Then one day a poet found it. Then a music master wove around it a melody. An artist touched it, gave it form in colours rich and warm. Now we bring to you these three, poem, picture, melody. A simple tribute to a tree.
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Performed by Ethel Smith and the Dinning Sisters, with amazing rhythm of the samba. We serve up a musical cocktail with true Latin American flavour. If three boisterous birds of a feather fall under the influence of this tropical tempo, don't blame them, blame it on the rhythm of the samba. Melody Time - Blame It On the Samba has Donald Duck and Jose Carioca meeting with the Aracuan Bird who introduces them to the pleasures of the samba. The Dinning Sisters provide the vocals while organist Ethel Smith plays the organ.
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Performed by Roy Rogers and The Sons Of The Pioneers. Melody Time - Pecos Bill movie was the roughest, toughest shootingest cowpoke that ever lived. Any story about Pecos is bound to be strong medicine. Maybe it's best to sashay into it gently. Once, a drought spread all over Texas, so to sunny Californy he did go. Though the gag is corny he brought rain from Californy. That's the way we got the Gulf of Mexico. He knew he'd never reach the border Water! If he didn 't get some water Water! So he got a stick and dug the Rio Grande
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Cast
Roy Rogers - Himself, Narrator, Singer (Pecos Bill);
Trigger, the Smartest Horse in the Movies - Himself;
Dennis Day - Narrator, Singer, Characters (Johnny Appleseed);
The Andrews Sisters - Singers (Little Toot);
Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians - Singers (Trees);
Freddy Martin - Music composer (Bumble Boogie);
Ethel Smith - Organist (Blame It On the Samba);
Frances Langford - Singer (Once Upon a Wintertime);
Buddy Clark - Singer;
Bob Nolan - Himself;
Singer; Narrator (Pecos Bill);
Sons of the Pioneers - Themselves;
The Dinning Sisters - Singers (Blame It On the Samba);
Bobby Driscoll - Himself;
Luana Patten - Herself;
Dallas McKennon - Himself;
Production
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske; story by Hardie Gramatky, Winston Hibler, Erdman Penner, Harry Reeves, Homer Brightman, Ken Anderson, Ted Sears, Joe Rinaldi, William Cottrell, Art Scott, Jesse Marsh, Bob Moore, John Walbridge; music by Eliot Daniel, Paul J. Smith; film editing by Donald Halliday, Thomas Scott.
Melody Time Lyrics
written by George Weiss and Bennie Benjamin, performed by Buddy Clark
Melody Time
It's time to swing along
To a happy land of sound
Where love is the thing
Melody Time
It's time for sweet romance
Won't you give your heart a chance
To join in and sing?
Take a tip from the birds
You don 't need words
For music has charm
It's the language of love
When your love's in your arms
Rhythm and rhyme
Sure help a heart along
So come on and sing a song.
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