"I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" - the most violent jazz song comes to Paramount Cartoons' Max Fleischer, and his brother Dave Fleischer for 1932, deep in The Great Depression... READ MORE
...where one might suppose philandering was a problem more than today! In 'lay-man's' terms: It's fooling around with another man's wife".
Listen, please don't get on an uproar about the 'natives', the cropped man-bun on a tribal cartooned Louis - to dissolve into a singing disembodied head of Louis Armstrong. For Fleischer fans, this is classic strange weirdness - and Louis Armstrong LOVED this film, apparently. Today's audiences are not mature enough to understand the lyrics of the song - as you see, the 'man' took money from the wife (cabbage) and a lot of it too, and "ate it like a savage".
There are only two verses in this cartoon (due to it's length). It is an entire storyline that KoKo and Bimbo try to re-enact in short-form. The running gag is the joke: running from the wife's husband, who is disembodied Louis - doesn't matter whether KoKo really did take some cabbage from the Mrs...but they were SAVAGE - so the writers come up with a Polynesian theme...Note that Betty Boop refuses one of the sexual advances of a 'savage' and sternly reprimands him, "NO!" - and puts him in his place.
BTW, Remember 2 things from this cartoon kiddies: Sexual Harassment isn't new, wasn't that funny then, and is against the law today (not to mention just plain wrong)! Get your fun on Tinder (or for a lot of you - "OurTime") instead - - Also, when you need blood in the hospital - remember we are all HUMANS - the only difference is blood TYPE.
Typical Fleischer rhythmic timed looping animation in this one.
I've seen all the comments posted on previous versions of this cartoon - and no, it is NOT white guys afraid of the spooky black man in the sky... However, don't miss the Kosher symbol joke and the end of the speedometer sequence! Goes by fast!
New York City in the 1930s was a VERY integrated place, folks - and please don't get on a racial angle. Stick with the musical genius and animation geniuses in the production of this cartoon instead, please.
This film's music is special because Louis is seen recording on a high-fidelity Western Electric 618 electrodynamic microphone - one of the first dynamic mike concepts we still use today! (There might have been additional ones not seen, but doesn't sound it).
This film accompanies Louis Armstrong's performance of the same song almost 18 years later - in the Decca recording studio with Louis Jordan singing the entire lyric - which REALLY lets you understand the true background and meanings to this cartoon.
If you haven't heard it, listen to it first before you watch the film. It will give you an entirely new perspective (I hope).
The original mono film sound has been stemmed-out and cleaned-up as much as possible with SOME stereo imaging. This is nowhere as good as the recording suggested at the end of the video - where there is a special surprise.
As for the cartoon. It IS a black and white cartoon with some color-toning. Please do not distribute this video. It is my work and do not want it pushed as "color" in any "collection". It is not. It is color-toned (not "colorized") and uniquely my opinion in 'execution' - and should not be in any way considered as an affront to the original black and white.
Enjoy!
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