Swooner Crooner

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Adventure Animation Comedy Family Music Short

Porky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.Porky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.Porky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.

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7.1/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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Mel Blanc

Porky Pig
(voice)
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Bea Benaderet

Chickens
(voice)
(uncredited)

Sara Berner

Chickens
(voice)
(uncredited)

Richard Bickenbach

Frank Sinatra Rooster
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Sam Glaser

Al Jolson Rooster
(uncredited)
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Director
- Frank Tashlin
Writer
- Warren Foster
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Trivia
The caricatured celebrities are, in order of appearance: The Crooner: Frank Sinatra; "Shortenin' Bread": Nelson Eddy; "September in the Rain": Al Jolson; "Lullaby of Broadway": Jimmy Durante; "Blues in the Night": Cab Calloway; The Old Groaner: Bing Crosby.

Goofs
When the hens are "punching the time clock", the clock advances one minute per "punch" though the line of workers is moving much quicker than that.

Connections
Edited into Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons (1989)

Soundtracks
Powerhouse
(uncredited)
Music by Raymond Scott
Performed by Studio Orchestra

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10/10

Sooner or later, "Powerhouse" had to get mixed with the Rosie the Riveter culture.

In the only Porky Pig cartoon to receive an Oscar nomination, filmdom's most famous swine owns a farm and has the hens lay eggs all day - to the tune of (what else?) Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" - but the hens get distracted by a crooning rooster. But when Porky hires another rooster to woo the hens back, the whole ordeal really turns into a battle of wits.

An obvious aspect of "Swooner Crooner" is that it's truly a product of WWII, what with the clear allusion to Rosie the Riveter. But of course, they parody singers like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. Yeah, those guys may have been really popular in those days, but I just bet that most people in my generation believe that BC and FS deserved to get mocked as brutally as possible.

OK, so I don't know whether or not I can speak for every member of my generation. But I can say that this is a really funny cartoon. It got included in Leonard Maltin's "Bugs and Daffy: Wartime Cartoons".