Watching Pee Wee's Playhouse with my 5 year olds and caught this vintage cartoon with a great harp scene. What's your favorite harmonica film and/or cartoon harmonica reference?
This is the very first Warner Bros/Looney Toons film, "Sinkin' in the Bathtub". (harp at 1:07)
There's Pot O' Gold from the 1940s where Jimmy Stewart plays chromatic (it's actually Larry Adler's brother Jerry) and gusses a big-band rehearsal on the sly (starting about 18:12)
And then there's the 1938 "St. Martin's Lane" (retitled Sidewalks of London in the US). Just before making "Gone with the Wind," Vivien Leigh made this with Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty, Hunchback of Notre Dame), with Larry Adler in a role where he always spoke through his harmonica - and there is additional harmonica played by one of the other characters.
There was a scene in an episode of The Little Rascals/Our Gang where Stymie got up in front of the class, took out his Marine Band and started belting out The Hungarian Waltz. That little guy could have hung out in Times Square in NYC, busking, and making some serious coins from the people passing by.
This one's no surprise, but this specific scene (at 1:43) is one of my first blues harp memories. I was only 4 or 5 years old when the movie was released. I remember my dad having to explain to me that he was playing a harmonica into a microphone.
I can't add anything, but I bought the 21-disc Laurel and Hardy collection last week, so I look forward to seeing them (haven't really watched them since the Sixties)
oh, there are a few harp references in the simpsons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVJzt7y2gR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63mn4iDYL_c Can't find this one yet on youtube: - http://i.imgur.com/k5s76xd.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9OuoMPaVSQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kus7v4qlWe0
(now I suppose I have to find out how to embed these on this particular forum. Shucks) ---------- Andrew. -----------------------------------------
Last Edited by Andrew on Aug 04, 2017 7:30 AM
