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- From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
- Subject: Warner Brothers song
- Keywords: original, chuckle
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- Date: 27 Jan 89 11:30:06 GMT
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- } From: <name omitted>
- } Subject: Re: On with the Show this is it...
- }
- } In article <identifiers omitted> <another name omitted> writes:
- } > Could someone please send me the complete set of words for the song
- } > that opens/closes the bugs bunny cartoons. You know...the song starts
- } > off something like this:
- } >
- } > Oh Mashay, Purple Lights
- } > This is it; the life we like
- } > We've been rehearsing and working our parts
- } > We know every part by heart...
- }
- } My goodness! "Oh Mashay, Purple Lights"?
- }
- } <insert badly suppressed laughter here>
- }
- } I'm sorry, I'll behave now.
- } ....
-
- } From: <someone else's name omitted>
- } This is TOTALLY from long-term memory, probably not totally right, but
- } it's the best I can come up with for now...
- }
- } Overture, curb the lights,
- } This is it, the night of nights,
- } ...
- } Are there other verses?
-
- Actually, <omitted> wasn't too far off. I have a newly-released book on
- the Warner Bros. animation studios (the real inside story) called "From
- Cels to Cells -- Bugs, Thugs, and Drugs at Warner Brothers" And it lists
- the words to this song. If you sing it, you'll see how well it fits the
- tune. I'll add explanations as appropriate:
-
- Oh Mache' Curb the Lights!
- This a zit? Deny the knights!
- No Morey -- hearse
- Ignore nursing apart.
- Ween? Oh, Avery part! Pie art!
-
- Oh, Mature! Curb the Lights!
- This a zit? We lit the hides!
- And owe what hides we lit.
- Unwitting Joe, This a zit?
-
- NOTES:
-
- OH MACHE' -- (as in paper-mache -- for various reasons, this was WB
- slang for heroin)
-
- CURB THE LIGHTS! -- (The assistant animators and 'tweeners used to laugh
- at how badly their stoned-out bosses reacted to the bright lights used
- in production.)
-
- THIS A ZIT? -- (Cartoon characters never have complexion problems
- before their close up scenes. This was the animation studio's dig at
- live actors and the difficulties of working with them.)
-
- DENY THE KNIGHTS! -- (Again, a dig at the live stuff. WB had been
- cranking out those chivalry epics one after another.)
-
- NO MOREY HEARSE -- (Morey Amsterdam wanted to do some voices for them,
- and the animators wanted him. Blanc pulled some strings with Jack
- Warner, though, and Morey was `dead')
-
- IGNORE NURSING APART -- (Chuck Jones's very shapely young wife was
- nursing her new baby around the studios, and he'd asked everyone --
- especially the lascivious Tex Avery -- not to stare at her.)
-
- WEEN? OH, AVERY PART! PIE ART! -- (Jones frequently threatened to
- decorate Avery's face with a pie if he (TA) didn't stop staring at his
- (CJ) wife's breasts.
-
- OH, MATURE! -- (Victor Mature was always hanging around the studios,
- trying to get them to model a 'toon after him. The couldn't get rid of
- him.)
-
- CURB THE LIGHTS! -- (ibid)
-
- THIS A ZIT? -- (ibid)
-
- WE LIT THE HIDES! -- (Referring to the evening of the drunken rampage in
- which they burned all the old WB Tarzan costumes.)
-
- AND OWE WHAT HIDES WE LIT. -- (They, of course, had to reimburse the
- studio for this arsonous running amok.)
-
- UNWITTING JOE -- (Their secret nickname for a local teamster boss who
- had a lot of leverage over all their union staff)
-
- THIS A ZIT? -- (ibid)
-
- } Are there other verses?
-
- Yes, but you don't want to hear 'em. They are *reeeaaalllly* obscure!
-
- Hope this helps.
- --
- Gary L. Dryfoos
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