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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 4:11:50 GMT
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Nov 22, 2018 5:49:29 GMT
I'm going with 'Diamond Horsedhoe' (1945)
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Nov 22, 2018 6:14:44 GMT
You beat me to it.
The movie with that song is an American mystery/comedy. The cast play hillbillies, I think looking for a treasure or body in an old house. They follow the lines in the song as clues around the house.
Was there a female comedian in the 1940s with the name "Grandma ...." or something similar? Wikipedia says the song was written in 1943 so that dates the movie.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 16:52:27 GMT
suggested by themighty Diamond Horseshoe (1945)"A medical student who wants to be a crooner gets involved with a showgirl who has an ulterior motive. " Nightclub …. only song listed is "let me call you sweetheart"
calling in the resident experts Nalkarj, Doghouse6Quit eating Turkey you guys … we have a mystery to solve !
Still looking , Hairynosedwombat
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 22, 2018 17:58:42 GMT
I seem to recall it being played on either an accordion or concertina by Stan Laurel in The Big Noise in '44, which was also the year in which recordings were first released: Al Trace and His Silly Symphonists; Lawrence Welk Orchestra; The Pied Pipers; The Merry Macs; The Four King Sisters. The Andrews Sisters did it in '48, I think. So I guess Diamond Horseshoe remains, for now, the first vocal performance in a film (although Hope and Crosby were filmed performing it for troops at the Santa Ana Air Base, but I don't know the year).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 18:14:05 GMT
Doghouse6 I posted the Bing and Bob clip elsewhere but someone complained about thread hi-jacking so I nuked it. Wombat's note indicates that he is seeking a mystery/comedy movie with hillbillies rather than medical students and showgirls. Is it also sung in Diamond Horseshoe ? Have not located any reference to it.
ohhhh perhaps we have a Sleuth Singer thread ?
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 22, 2018 18:25:08 GMT
You beat me to it. The movie with that song is an American mystery/comedy. The cast play hillbillies, I think looking for a treasure or body in an old house. They follow the lines in the song as clues around the house. Was there a female comedian in the 1940s with the name "Grandma ...." or something similar? Wikipedia says the song was written in 1943 so that dates the movie. The movie you cite sounds like Murder, He Says (1945), with Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Helen Walker, Porter Hall and Jean Heather. In it, a nonsensical rhyme very much like Mairzy Dotes gives clues to the location of hidden money: "Honors flysis (On horse, flies is) Income beezis (In comb, bees is) Onches nobis (On chest, knob is) Inob keesis" (In knob, keys is)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 18:43:17 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 18:45:36 GMT
Doghouse6 … yes ! THE BIG NOISE Mairzy Doats (1943) Written by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston Played by Stan Laurel on a concertina Reprised by him while on an ocean buoy
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Post by jervistetch on Nov 22, 2018 18:50:14 GMT
Not the movie but I just had to call to everyone's attention that this film actually exists.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 18:54:18 GMT
jervistetch That ^^^^^^ looks incredibly …. prize-worthy !
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 22, 2018 19:02:03 GMT
Doghouse6 I have no recollection of seeing Murder He Says but must have because I remember the poem. It ticks several of Hairynosedwombat's boxes: MacMurray is a worker for a polling organization who comes to the remote, ramshackle farm of the Fleagle family of larcenous, homicidal hillbillies, ruled by whip-crackin' Main (in a typically raucous performance much like her Ma Kettle, but without the kind heart), who have been trying to locate loot stashed there by their Cousin Bonnie (Barbara Pepper). If you don't specifically recall the plot or film, perhaps you remember this precursor of Gene Wilder's "dead hand" gag from Young Frankenstein: It's this film that convinces me that MacMurray would have been better casting than Cary Grant for Arsenic and Old Lace.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 19:07:45 GMT
Doghouse6 love seeing those boxes being ticked ! The poem being mistaken for another nonsense song makes perfect sense I think we may have a winner .. already.
and yes on Fred /arsenic.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 22, 2018 19:10:40 GMT
Doghouse6 love seeing those boxes being ticked ! The poem being mistaken for another nonsense song makes perfect sense I think we may have a winner .. already. Winner? Sounds like "dinner." It's not yet noon here, but ah'm gittin' powerful hungry...already.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 19:14:07 GMT
Doghouse6Punkin' Pie just came outta the oven …. and Planes, Trains and Automobiles is spooled up and ready to run !
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Nov 22, 2018 19:25:08 GMT
You beat me to it. The movie with that song is an American mystery/comedy. The cast play hillbillies, I think looking for a treasure or body in an old house. They follow the lines in the song as clues around the house. Was there a female comedian in the 1940s with the name "Grandma ...." or something similar? Wikipedia says the song was written in 1943 so that dates the movie. The movie you cite sounds like Murder, He Says (1945), with Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Helen Walker, Porter Hall and Jean Heather. In it, a nonsensical rhyme very much like Mairzy Dotes gives clues to the location of hidden money: "Honors flysis (On horse, flies is) Income beezis (In comb, bees is) Onches nobis (On chest, knob is) Inob keesis" (In knob, keys is) Yes,,that's if. Funny how memory plays tricks on you. I saw it on TV years ago.
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Nov 22, 2018 19:27:43 GMT
Doghouse6 love seeing those boxes being ticked ! The poem being mistaken for another nonsense song makes perfect sense I think we may have a winner .. already.
and yes on Fred /arsenic. Yes, we have a winner. Immisremebered the rhyme. Quite a funnny movie.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 19:29:17 GMT
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Nov 22, 2018 19:32:35 GMT
We could hijackanother politics board thread.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 19:40:07 GMT
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