In late , the Andrews Sisters were riding high on a three-year wave of success that had started for them in early with their second recording session, and a tune called "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" -- since that unexpected success with a foreign novelty tune, they'd cut songs that intersected with blues, jazz, and even gospel and ridden it to the top of the charts. They'd done one modestly successful movie, and it was time for a second -- this was Buck Privates, starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, and one of the numbers they were planning to cut was something new for them in the way of a sound; they'd been offered a song by Don Raye, a composer who specialized in building songs around slang expressions, and who had previously come up with a song called "Well All Right," which had become a major hit for them, and "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar.
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Additionally, and more important, the peacetime draft was something new and seemingly still controversial. It had only been re-instituted by a single vote in Congress, pushed through by the sheer force of will of President Roosevelt who, himself, had courted controversy by running for and winning an unprecedented third term; and the perception was that the public might seriously resent a song that not only made light of a draftee's plight, but also tried turning it into something joyous as a musical experience.
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More sensible heads prevailed after the scene with the number was screened, and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" became part of the focus of the movie's promotion: The song became a huge hit and, in doing so, perhaps also showed in its own subtle way that the public was more open to the idea of military preparedness than the anecdotal evidence of newspaper editorial pages or interviews on Main Street led one to believe.
The arrangement by bandleader Vic Schoen may also have had a lot to do with the song's success -- the opening, a jazzy variant on "Taps" which, itself, might have been considered tasteless gives way to a pounding boogie-woogie beat on the drums and piano and with pulsing horns, and then the Andrews Sisters come in, LaVerne and Maxene like a pair of muted "trumpets" around Patty's lead, which shares riffs with the real lead trumpet and later with a clarinet; the lyrics, alliterative and built on the substance and slang of music, tells a comic yet, in its time, serious story of a drafted jazzman that gets a whole company jumping.
Anyway, to deal with it first, the cartoon is really racist — massive lipped characters, "yes masta" style voice acting and very dark skin; one can excuse it as being of its time, but it is still offensive to watch and it feels uncomfortable to do so today. On the other side, to ignore this and watch it as a cartoon it does function well because the swinging soundtrack is very enjoyable and the comedy is nicely in support of this. The animation flows well too.
It is a shame then that you will struggle to focus on all of the good aspects because there are so many negative ones and it is uncomfortable to watch because of them. MartinHafer 21 January My assumption is that the only place you'll find this cartoon short is at archive. Clearly "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B'" is one of these, though the offensive material is more benign than many from the era. This made folks laugh back in the s but today you might just get a punch in the nose with this sort of stuff!
It's a shame, as the cartoon is well made particularly for Walter Lantz and is quite enjoyable. The cartoon has little in the way of plot and is basically the famous song--with a back story and about half of the cartoon made up of folks singing the catchy tune.
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But the cartoon has a nice, goofy sense of humor I particularly liked the alligator and is worth a look. By the way, this must have been popular back in the day because it was nominated for the Oscar for the Best Short Subject, Animated. If Woody Woodpecker and Chilly Willie creator, 'Walter Lantz' qv offered 'The Andrews Sisters' qv popular trio for their current hit, of same title, "Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy" of Company B , and the trio accepted, I am strongly sure it would have won the best animation short award of , along with the fact it was nominated, despite the fact of different human races and a majority of people are racial.
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Another claimant to the title though he seldom mentioned it would be Harry L. In the s and s, he honored many requests to play at services for veterans' funerals, and in , in the character of The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy still able to fit in his World War II uniform: The single was produced by Barry Manilow.
The track was also a number-one single on the Billboard easy listening chart. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Billboard Vol 55 No.
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