5.2
“Sixty Years of Syncopation...FROM "RAGTIME" TO THE "BIG BEAT"”
A Symposium on Popular Songs (1962)
December 19, 196220mEN
5.5
17 votes
Overview
Professor Ludwig von Drake plays a variety of popular music, all of which he wrote. First, ragtime: the Rutabaga Rag, with vegetables dancing in stop-motion. Next, the Charleston, with cut-out animation of a singer and dancers. Dixieland and more cut-out animation; the crooner/love ballad; 50's doo-wop; and finally, rockabilly.
Director
Bill JusticeWriter
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Production Companies
Walt Disney Productions
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6.0Arriving at the mansion of acclaimed maestro "Prof Ludwig von Drake", we are shown into his music room where he invites us on a tour of American musical styles through the ages - all of which, of course, were his own original work! With some help from the Sherman brothers - who manage to rhyme synchopate with a surprising number of other words, we proceed to enjoy just about everything from baked potatoes to "Betty Boop" style dancers entertaining us from ragtime through the Charleston before some early examples of crooning. Then follows some power balladering; a little doo-wop and finally som…
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