By Merlin
"'Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat' is a 1941 hit boogie-woogie popular song written by Don Raye. A bawdy, jazzy tune, the song describes a laundry woman from Harlem, New York, United States, whose technique is so unusual that people come from all around just to watch her scrub. The Andrews Sisters and Will Bradley & His Orchestra recorded the most successful pop versions of the song, but it is today best recognized as the centerpiece of an eponymous Walter Lantz Studio cartoon from 1941.
"The short version, released on March 28, 1941, by Universal Pictures, features no director credit (although Woody Woodpecker creator Walter Lantz claims to have directed the cartoon himself), with a story by Ben Hardaway, animation by Alex Lovy and Frank Tipper, and voiceover work by Mel Blanc and Nellie Lutcher. The short uses blackface stereotypes of African-American people and culture, and of life in the rural Southern United States.
"The 'Scrub Me Mama' short is today in the public domain. Clips from it are featured in Spike Lee's 2000 satirical film about African-American stereotypes, Bamboozled.. --wikipedia"
Hilarious.Look on any porch today with blacks congregating,and you see similar--but with cellphones and drug deals now.
ReplyDelete"Lazytown".How true.
--GRA
And now it's rap instead of boogie woogie.
ReplyDelete--GRA
LAUGH OF THE DAY:nbc PROMOTES bLACK SNOW SKIING
ReplyDelete(GRA)nbc news' 1 o'clock show made a big deal about a few blacks who snow ski.They belong to a group called the International Brotherhood of Skiers--lol.
"The group is attempting to dispel the myth that blacks don't like snow and cold,"intoned nbc seriously.
What they WON'T dispel is the FACT that shootings are a sure thing to follow,if blacks DO go to the slopes(which they won't).
"The goal is to produce medal winning,African American skiers in future Olympics," nbc earnestly stated as the punchline.
GRA:nbc gets more idiotic everyday.
--GRA
A few years ago I heard a superintendent of a remote national monument and campground lamenting that there wasn't a diverse public coming there. I thought just what we need--crime in the campground--robberies when people leave their campsite, women raped in the restrooms, late night parties with drugs and chimp-outs.
ReplyDeleteDumbo, the flying elephant and the crows they keep saying an elephant can’t fly. The voices of the crows are the voices of American Negroes.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, you can identify a Negro on the telephone by listening and how to speak that is a big plus for an American Negro. If they can pass for white on the telephone gives them a better chance of getting a good job.