Jounk
I'd sing 'I wanna singa' to my infant when he was fussy and he'd stop crying! No lie....
He's 22 now...it no longer works-lol.
CitizenCaine
Though what seems like a clichéd story for a brief cartoon, I Love To Singa is a funny spoof of Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer. Owl Jolson is a hep-cat, born fourth after his three more classically gifted siblings. He comes out bursting with song, similar to what many folks probably heard in juke-joints of the 1930's. Owl Jolson shocks his overly stuffy parents and is thrown out on his ear left to compete at a local radio station's amateur contest. The radio station is GONG and headed up by Jack Bunny, a rabbit with a mean streak. Jack Bunny gongs each failed contestant one after the other until Owl Jolson steps up to the plate. Within moments, Jack Bunny and the audience are enthralled with his performance. The song is a very catchy tune, and the film tells the familiar story of the generation gap quite well in a short period of time.
slymusic
Directed by the great Tex Avery, "I Love to Singa" is a superb Warner Bros. cartoon featuring some great swing music. The story is about a musical owl family, the father of whom is Prof. Fritz Owl, a teacher of strictly classical music with absolutely no tolerance for jazz. He and his wife bear four sons, the first three of whom humorously pop out of their eggs sporting tuxes and displaying their immediate gift of being able to sing or play classical music. The fourth son, named Owl Jolson, sports a red coat & blue bow tie and, to his parents' horror, sings jazz! His favorite song is "I Love to Singa," which he happily sings & swings throughout this wonderful cartoon.Here are my favorite moments from "I Love to Singa." Owl Jolson's parents are hilarious in their horrified reactions to his being a jazz singer; the mother faints and the German-accented father angrily calls him a "crooner," a "hotcha," and a "falsetto" before kicking him out of the house. At the G-O-N-G broadcasting station, one of the contestants is an overweight hen who sings the first line of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" before getting the gong and almost getting stuck in the chute! When the delightful Owl Jolson shows up at the radio station, he dances & sings his old swinging standby - what else? - "I Love to Singa." "I Love to Singa" is a fun little cartoon with a great story and terrific music. It's also nice to see in the end that Owl Jolson's parents finally welcome the fact that they have a jazz singer in their family.
Guitar-8
The first time I ever saw this Warner Brothers short was @ a pizza parlor over in Irving, Texas. It always makes me laugh when the little owl heads over to radio station G-O-N-G! Jack Bunny is the host & judge of the talent show. It's kind of a spoof of the old Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio show, complete with a gong. Today, people would think of it as The Gong Show Meets American Idol with Jack Bunny as a cross between Simon Cowell & Chuck Barris! When the owl saw his family @ radio station G-O-N-G, the father had a change of heart, just before Jack Bunny's about to gong him off! I Love To Singa is a clever movie & it doesn't deserve the G-O-N-G!
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