Thursday, November 9, 2006

Follow-Up

I've received dozens of e-mails from folks who are sure they've seen Tony Bennett perform "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" on TV since 1962. A couple even recall seeing him sing it on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno before last night and there are even online videos of him doing so. Here's a clip of him singing it on the Don Imus show on MSNBC one month ago. So I don't know what that business was about him doing it on TV for the first time in more than forty years.

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Today's Video Link

Hey, let's have us another Bob Clampett cartoon! This one is also from World War II. It's called Falling Hare and sources say it was released on either October 23 or 30 of 1943. Most of the animation is by Rod Scribner, Robert McKimson and Bill Melendez, and all of the voices (both of them) are by Mel Blanc. During production, the film was called Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin but Mr. Disney was developing a gremlin feature at the time. That film was never completed but he somehow persuaded Leon Schlesinger, whose studio was then making the cartoons for Warner Brothers, to change the name of the Bugs Bunny cartoon you're about to watch. Go ahead and watch it.

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