
A great Columbia cartoon! Hot jazz with a galloping "St Louis Blues" vocal at the end.

cartoon section from the movie "king of jazz" (1930). This cartoon sequence was produced by Walter Lantz and Bill Nolan. Music includes Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys.

Cab Calloway's jazz hit "Minnie the Moocher" was used as the soundtrack for an extremely surreal Betty Boop cartoon in 1932.

"The Pink Panther Theme" is an instrumental composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film.


This cartoon contains the last known recording by pianist, Bob Zurke, a significant American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and briefly a bandleader during the Swing Era.. He died a month after recording the soundtrack for this cartoon in 1942. The cartoon Jungle Jive was produced by Walter Lantz Productions.

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was a major hit for The Andrews Sisters and an iconic World War II tune. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. The song inspired the 1941 cartoon Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B produced by Walter Lantz Productions

A short impressionistic view of Brazil turns into Donald Duck getting dance lessons from Jose Carioca