{"id":1017,"date":"2008-06-11T14:28:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2008-08-07T12:35:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T20:35:47","slug":"swing-monkey-swing-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/swing-monkey-swing-1937\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CARTOON CRYPT: Swing, Monkey, Swing (1937)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=12\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/headers\/cartooncrypt.gif\" alt=\"THE CARTOON CRYPT\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An incredible Charles Mintz produced cartoon animated by Manny Gould for Columbia Pictures. Unfortunately, some of it is cut off, but it is still utterly fantastic. What a great soundtrack! They start with some Cab Calloway style hi-de-ho mixed with a Mills Brothers-esque monkey making music with his mouth, move into something that sounds a lot like Jungle Fever (which I know through the Mills Brothers), and finish with St. Louis Blues. <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-8775547274087808509&#038;q=harman+ising&#038;ei=ZoRMSIdsjKDgAu3voYgM&#038;hl=en\">The person who posted this<\/a> on DailyMotion thinks the soundtrack was most likely by Les Hite and his Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note: The monkey jazz musicians in this cartoon could definitely be read as a racial slur if you&#8217;re inclined to read monkeys as a racial slur. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><object width=\"420\" height=\"365\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/x4kdww&#038;related=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=111\">Go here to see a whole lot of other classic monkey cartoons on this website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcdb.com\/cartoon\/790-Swing_Monkey_Swing.html\">Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible Charles Mintz produced cartoon animated by Manny Gould for Columbia Pictures. Unfortunately, some of it is cut off, but it is still utterly fantastic. What a great soundtrack! They start with some Cab Calloway style hi-de-ho mixed with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/swing-monkey-swing-1937\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,79,111,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-mintz","category-columbia","category-monkey-cartoons","category-cartoon_crypt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-gp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}