Tom Turkey & His Harmonica Humdingers

Tom Turkey & His Harmonica Humdingers
1940 Hugh Harman's Cartoon.

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Entertainment

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• Tom
• Turkey
• Cartoon
• Harmonica
• Humdingers
• 1940
• Vintage
• Animation
• Reels
• MGM
• Hugh
• Harman

[ESLinstructor1]

For those who asked the songs are in the following order:

1. Turkey in the Straw

2. Darktown Strutter's Ball

3. Marching Through Georgia

4. Dixie

5. Here Comes the Showboat

6. Strollin' Through the Park

[baxterfilms]

Yeah, this was before Blanc went exclusive to WB in 1941 - he did voices for MGM, Lantz, and Columbia beforehand.

[Blakefe]

why dont they show this any more?

[tkhering]

The characters actually aren't too far removed from the antics of the actual band, Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals. The turtle is obviously a caricature of Johnny Puelo, the short member of the Rascals. Minevitch made several movie shorts in the 1930s. Check 'em out.

Surely this group inspired Spike Jones when he was working out his musical stage shows in the late 1940s.

[nacoran]

@megadork456 Could be, but you can certainly make those noises on harmonicas too. Harmonicas and accordions are both free reed instruments so their tone can be very similar. I didn't hear any notes in there that couldn't be made by harmonicas and the antics were pretty similar to old recordings I've seen of harmonica bands. It could be a mix too.

[castper]

i cant get over the music

[vmpickle123]

@ESLinstructor1 There's also the sextet from Donizetti's "Lucia di Lamermoor" played at 4:00.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@megadork456

One of those is a rare bass harmonica or chord harmonica, like what you'd hear on the Beatles' "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" and the Who's "Join Together."

[skurvay]

my favorite part was the TRAIN gag, I sure wish I could get some friends together and recreate that scene in real life.

[megadork456]

Those "harmonicas" sound an awful lot like accordians...

[shaunWOH]

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