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A Symposium on Popular Songs(1962)
Status: Released
Date: 1962-12-19
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Time: 0h 20m
Sixty Years of Syncopation...FROM "RAGTIME" TO THE "BIG BEAT"
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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.
Languages: English.
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United States of America
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Movie: A Symposium on Popular Songs
Top 5 Billed Cast
Paul Frees
Ludwig Von Drake
Gloria Wood
The Andrews Sisters singing The Boogie Woogie Bakery Man / Helen Kane
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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.
Release Date
1962-12-19
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Sixty Years of Syncopation...FROM "RAGTIME" TO THE "BIG BEAT"
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