Giovanni Jones appears in The Looney Tunes Show, as the head manager and Tina's boss at Copy Place. [4], Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, "Corny Concertos and Silly Symphonies: Classical Music and Cartoons", Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949), The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall, Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper, Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile, Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens – A Life in Animation, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Long-Haired_Hare&oldid=1007092877, Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 February 2021, at 12:31. I Love to Singa is a 1936 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Tex Avery. This causes the piece to fall and crush him in offscreen. ("Music-hater," Bugs opines. Bugs offers a welcome dramatic foil to Fudd’s machismo, but his overly strident voice struggles through the more emotional passages. Their identity depends only on their instrument. Realizing his mistake,[4] Giovanni loses his temper over his rehearsal being interrupted in this manner. Directed by Chuck Jones. Between 1934 and 1943, the Merrie Melodies series were … Giovanni's face turns various colors as he squirms and his formal wear unravels. Bugs rescues him and takes him backstage. Progresses to Bugs playing several tricks on singer at the performance, culminating with Bugs impersonating "Leopold" the great conductor. D&D Beyond While his name is an apparent play on that of animator/director Chuck Jones, his appearance appears to be patterned after that of character actor Alan Hale, who is best known for his role as the Skipper on Gilligan's Island. After the off-screen explosion, Giovanni steps out to the stage with a singed face and evening wear torn to shreds. ), Giovanni tries to start singing once more, but the sound of a sousaphone seems to come out of his open mouth when he tries to sing the first note. [4] Bugs ducks into his hole after seeing Giovanni approach to punish him again for interrupting his rehearsal, the bell of the sousaphone getting stuck in the hole's small opening, but the singer simply pulls Bugs out through the sousaphone. A further contrast is implied through the geographic origin of their songs. What's Opera, Doc? Bugs Bunny … The folk melodies which Bugs sings are featured as infectious and treated as disease by Giovanni, acting as a representative of the musical establishment. He takes a couple of bows and then collapses. Bugs takes the earmuffs out of the package, puts them on, and then returns to the stage where Giovanni has obeyed the glove and is still holding the high note, now on the floor from the strain. The Donizetti piece, originally a sextet that comprises part of the opera's Act II finale, seems to have been a favorite of Warner music arranger Carl Stalling, and is also used in Book Revue and Back Alley Oproar. This contrasts with orchestra-driven animated shorts by other creators. This episode features a blowhard opera singer named Giovanni Jones. When presented in the 1979 compilation The Bugs Bunny Road-Runner Movie, Bugs Bunny claims that the short was the whole of Wagner's seventeen-hour Opera Cycle \"Der Ring des Nibelungen\" (The Ring of the Nibelung, which he mispronounced as \"The Rings of Nibble-lung\" in his Brooklynese accent), condensed into only seven minutes. Long-Haired Hare is a 1949 American animated short film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The soundtrack includes "Largo al factotum" from Act I of Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville; Arthur Schwartz's "A Rainy Night in Rio"; Barney Fagan's "My Gal is a High-Born Lady"; Herman Hupfeld's song "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba" – played by Bugs on a Sousaphone; the sextet "Chi mi frena in tal momento" from Act II of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor; the 2nd theme from the Prelude to Act III of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin; the overture from Franz von Suppé's operetta Die schöne Galathee (The Beautiful Galatea); and the melody to "It's Magic." Chuck Jones would follow this idea with similar personality-less depictions in the Rabbit of Seville (1950) and Baton Bunny (1959). Satisfied with his victory, Bugs removes his wig and ends the show by taking out another banjo and playing the Vaudeville-era four-note riff, "Good Evening Friends". Also noted on the DVD commentary is Bugs Bunny's conducting performance as "Leopold", as a send-up of conductor Leopold Stokowski's energetic style, including his shunning the baton: Bugs makes a point of snapping the baton in half and discarding it. The best known of which is "Long-Haired Hare", which starts with Bugs playing several musical instruments (banjo, harp, tuba) while opera singer tries to rehearse. He reacts by going to Bugs on the hill and grabbing the banjo from him, popping the strings, then splitting it in two. Report. His next appearance was a silent cameo in "A Christmas Carol". The soundtrack includes "Largo al factotum" from Act I of Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville; Arthur Schwartz's "A Rainy Night in Rio"; Barney Fagan's "My Gal is a High-Born Lady"; Herman Hupfeld's song "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba" – played by Bugs on a Sousaphone; the sextet "Chi mi frena in tal mo…
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