(03/05/2020)


"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers  with Paul Weston and 
His Orchestra - Capitol 323 (1946)

This week's theme: Walt Disney's "Song of the South"

Remember growing up with all those wonderful Disney movies?
Movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi, Peter 
Pan.

And do you especially remember Disney's movie, "Song of the South", with all 
it's wonderful memorable characters like Uncle Remus, Johnny, Toby, Ginny 
Favers (the poor white girl), Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, and Br'er Bear.

Do you?

You do?

Really?

NO YOU DON'T!

Did I catch you lying again?

Wait, did I ever catch you lying before?

I must have you mixed up with somebody else :-)

This movie was considered so incredibly racially offensive that Disney had 
to pull it off the market shortly after releasing it and has buried it ever 
since!

And that was by 1946 standards - long before the civil rights movement of 
the 1960s.

"one of Hollywood's most resiliently offensive racist texts"

Song of the South
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South

When the movie had its world premiere in 1946 in Atlanta, James Baskett, the 
actor who played Uncle Remus, was not allowed to attend - it was shown in a 
segregated "whites only" movie theater.

Here are some other examples of racism in Disney films:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15677_the-9-most-racist-disney-characters.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/are-these-disney-movies-racist

or Google "disney pick aninnies"

"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (Original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY&list=PLKqWQwSrwbcs7PjOwlaTXUAtbst0TQt8_&index=3


Johnny Mercer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer


The Pied Pipers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pied_Pipers


Paul Weston
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weston


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Johnny Carson used to do a comedy bit called "Carnac the Magnificent" in 
which he would psychically "divine" unknown answers to unseen questions in 
pre-sealed envelops and then tear open the envelop to read question.

Answer: "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"
Question: "How do you tell Marcello Mastroianni his doo-dah is open?"

Answer: "Mein Kampf" (Hitler's book)
Question: "What do you do in a Kampf mine?"

Carnac the Magnificent
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_the_Magnificent

Carnac the Magnificent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuFSWcNe8hY


Stay Jazzed!