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Hardrock, Coco and Joe: The Three Little Dwarfs.
A short Christmas musical stop motion animated cartoon from 1951, written by Stuart Hamblen. Three of Santa Claus' helpers who ride on Santa's sleigh each Christmas. The short has become an annual "Christmas Classic" on Chicago's WGN-TV and Johnstown, PA WJAC-TV since its introduction in the early 1950s. The film is entirely in black-and-white.
* I created a karaoke sing-a-long of Gene Autry with scrolling lyrics to sing along with in the middle of this video. Gene sings slightly altered lyrics, but the following are the original lyrics sung by The Les Tucker Singers. Enjoy!...
HARDROCK, COCO AND JOE
http://bit.ly/HardrockCocoJoe
Words & Music by Stuart Hamblen
Published by Hill and Range Songs Inc. BMI
ORIGINAL SONG LYRICS:
Ole olady olady I oh
That's Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
Now listen my children and you shall hear
A story fantastic, a story so queer
It's all about Santa and his helpers three
There's Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
Now Hardrock's the driver up there by his sleigh
Coco reads maps and he shows him the way
Though old Santa really has no need for Joe
But takes him cause he loves him so
Ole olady olady I ay
Donner and Blitzen away away
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
And Santa is busy with his heavy pack
He trusts his drivers and never looks back
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
Now go to bed early on this Christmas Eve
I've no way of knowing just what you'll receive
But you'll hear their laughter that much I do know
Twill be Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
The three little men only two feet high
Singing to Santa way up in the sky
Laughing and shouting as the sleigh bells ring
It's Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
Ole olady olady I ay
Donner and Blitzen away away
Ole olady olady I oh
He's Hardrock, he's Coco, he's Joe
And Santa is busy with his heavy pack
He trusts his drivers and never looks back
Ole olady olady I oh
He's Hardrock, he's Coco, he's Joe
Ol' Santa will come in and set down his pack
And Hardrock will hold the reindeer till Santa comes back
If you hear a giggle as he turns to go
It's Coco, a snowball,...and Joe!
Ole olady olady I ay
Donner and Blitzen away away
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
And Santa is busy with his heavy pack
He trusts his drivers and never looks back
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
Ole olady olady I oh...
* Gene Autry sings slightly altered lyrics. Those words scroll in the "sing-a-long" to his version in the middle of the video.
Its full title is Hardrock, Coco and Joe - The Three Little Dwarfs. It was originally created by a company called Centaur Productions utilizing the stop-motion talents of artist Wah Ming Chang. Its running time is about 2 minutes and 45 seconds. This cartoon is traditionally broadcast with their two other short Christmas cartoons, "Suzy Snowflake" and "Frosty the Snowman".
According to the narrative song, Hardrock drives Santa's sleigh, and Coco navigates with maps. Santa "has no need for Joe but takes him 'cause he loves him so". Part of the charm of this primitively made cartoon is that Joe, the smallest of the three and very boyish-looking has a deep bass voice.
A new generation of animation lovers was introduced to this Christmas classic via the short-lived Comedy Central television series, TV Funhouse, a spin-off of the recurring Saturday Night Live cartoons. In the series' third episode, "Christmas Day", the Hardrock, Coco, and Joe short is satirized under the name "Christmas With Tingles" in which an elf named Tingles magically spreads tension and guilt during the Christmas season. Aside from the subject matter, the spoof stays remarkably faithful to the original, featuring black-and-white stop-motion animation, as well as spoken lyrics backed by an a cappella chorus:
Yo-dee-yo-die-deedle, deedle-ee-dee
Awkwardness and anxiety,
Yeedle-dee-doo-deedle, dee-deedle dension
"I'm Tingles the Christmas Tension!"
The tune of the song featured in the "Christmas With Tingles" is the song featured in the Hardrock, Coco, and Joe "Three Little Dwarfs" cartoon.
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"I'm Tingles the Christmas Tension!"
DemonWarp65 1 year ago
@DemonWarp65 nice to meet you Tingles.
Nice to see people reading. :-)
XmasFLIX 1 year ago