Oingo Boingo's Minnie the Moocher

Cab Calloway's jazz hit "Minnie the Moocher" was used as the soundtrack for an extremely surreal Betty Boop cartoon in 1932. The cartoon and song became an inspiration for the young Danny Elfman. He performed it on stage with the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo (later just Oingo Boingo), rewrote the lyrics as "Squeezit the Moocher" for his role as Satan in "The Forbidden Zone", and it was clearly a strong influence on Oogie Boogie's song in "The Nightmare Before Christmas".

Here I've brought things full circle and resynched the original Minnie cartoon to Danny performing the song. Obviously there are some differences in speed and lyrics between the two versions, so the lip synch isn't exact.

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[08maricuca]

I miss Oingo Boingo.................

[JohnnyLovelyOfficial]

old cartoons like that scare me

[KaiserWackeldackel]

What a great job! What you did is clearly near perfection. Atmosphere is PERFECTLY synched!

[TheVampirical]

This has to be one of the best covers I have heard, even better than the original in many ways. this one going in my play list for none stop enjoyment :)

[didogazeto]

This cartoon was way before me... after watching it I feel like I'm in a forest fucking lost just killed some animal, made a fire, cooking what I can get from the creature and watching this on a freakin' 30's-40's tv

[ragapibarino]

and it feels awesome, doesn't it? ;)

[Matironx]

Oh! From here is where Tim Burton was "inspired" for developed his ideas of his own movie's esthetics.

[Highland804]

This really showcases Danny's amazing voice and range.

[laikapupkino]

Saw the Mystic Nights live at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach many years ago- they made an amazing spectacular out of some gorilla suits, grim reaper robes and a hundred dollars worth of miscellaneous cardboard and tinfoil props. Danny had that delightfully evil grin and totally owned this song.

[Goldberg1337]

Hootchie-cootcher. It was a type of dance/ dancer in the early 20th century that was considered very provocative.

[ididcramsmom]

she was a red hot WHAT at 0:38?!?!!