A Symposium on Popular Songs

A Symposium on Popular Songs is a special cartoon featurette made by the Walt Disney Company in 1962. It features songs written by the Sherman Brothers with music arrangements by Tutti Camarata. The Shermans also cowrote the screenplay but are not credited for this.citation needed Host Ludwig Von Drake invites his audience into his mansion where he tells all about popular music through the years, introducing several songs illustrated with stopmotion photography. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It was telecast in December 1962 as an episode of The Wonderful World of Color, Disneys NBC Sunday evening anthology series. It was released on DVD in 2005 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures set Disney Rarities.

Charleston Charlie, performed by Betty Boopie Doop Gloria Wood, makes direct reference to the singing style exemplified by Helen Kane in her flapper era iconic song Hes So Unusual, which was cowritten by the Sherman Brothers tin pan alley songwriting father, Al Sherman in 1929 see 1929 in music. The subject of both songs is a male college student whom the singer desires. Charleston Charlie begins with the Betty Boopesque lyric Boop boop be doop.In the film, Ludwig Von Drake claims he wrote the song when traveling below the MasonDixon line. Mr. Dixon approached Drake and asked him to put Dixie on the map. For this reason, he wrote a song originally entitled, Louisville Ludwig, but later changed the name to Charleston Charlie in order to protect the innocent, namely himself. ........

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