Article 13 of rec.humor.funny: Path: santra!tut!draken!kth!enea!mcvax!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!killer!texbell!ssbn!lzfme!think!bloom-beacon!watmath!looking!funny-request From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Warner Brothers song Keywords: original, chuckle Message-ID: 2688@looking.UUCP Date: 27 Jan 89 11:30:06 GMT Sender: funny@looking.UUCP Lines: 106 Approved: funny@looking.UUCP Reply-Path: uunet!athena.mit.edu!dryfoo
} From: <name omitted> } Subject: Re: On with the Show this is it… } } In article <identifiers omitted> <another name omitted> writes: } > Could someone please send me the complete set of words for the song } > that opens/closes the bugs bunny cartoons. You know…the song starts } > off something like this: } > } > Oh Mashay, Purple Lights } > This is it; the life we like } > We've been rehearsing and working our parts } > We know every part by heart… } } My goodness! "Oh Mashay, Purple Lights"? } } <insert badly suppressed laughter here> } } I'm sorry, I'll behave now. } ….
} From: <someone else's name omitted> } This is TOTALLY from long-term memory, probably not totally right, but } it's the best I can come up with for now… } } Overture, curb the lights, } This is it, the night of nights, } … } Are there other verses?
Actually, <omitted> wasn't too far off. I have a newly-released book on the Warner Bros. animation studios (the real inside story) called "From Cels to Cells – Bugs, Thugs, and Drugs at Warner Brothers" And it lists the words to this song. If you sing it, you'll see how well it fits the tune. I'll add explanations as appropriate:
Oh Mache' Curb the Lights! This a zit? Deny the knights! No Morey – hearse Ignore nursing apart. Ween? Oh, Avery part! Pie art!
Oh, Mature! Curb the Lights! This a zit? We lit the hides! And owe what hides we lit. Unwitting Joe, This a zit?
NOTES:
OH MACHE' – (as in paper-mache – for various reasons, this was WB slang for heroin)
CURB THE LIGHTS! – (The assistant animators and 'tweeners used to laugh at how badly their stoned-out bosses reacted to the bright lights used in production.)
THIS A ZIT? – (Cartoon characters never have complexion problems before their close up scenes. This was the animation studio's dig at live actors and the difficulties of working with them.)
DENY THE KNIGHTS! – (Again, a dig at the live stuff. WB had been cranking out those chivalry epics one after another.)
NO MOREY HEARSE – (Morey Amsterdam wanted to do some voices for them, and the animators wanted him. Blanc pulled some strings with Jack Warner, though, and Morey was `dead')
IGNORE NURSING APART – (Chuck Jones's very shapely young wife was nursing her new baby around the studios, and he'd asked everyone – especially the lascivious Tex Avery – not to stare at her.)
WEEN? OH, AVERY PART! PIE ART! – (Jones frequently threatened to decorate Avery's face with a pie if he (TA) didn't stop staring at his (CJ) wife's breasts.
OH, MATURE! – (Victor Mature was always hanging around the studios, trying to get them to model a 'toon after him. The couldn't get rid of him.)
CURB THE LIGHTS! – (ibid)
THIS A ZIT? – (ibid)
WE LIT THE HIDES! – (Referring to the evening of the drunken rampage in which they burned all the old WB Tarzan costumes.)
AND OWE WHAT HIDES WE LIT. – (They, of course, had to reimburse the studio for this arsonous running amok.)
UNWITTING JOE – (Their secret nickname for a local teamster boss who had a lot of leverage over all their union staff)
THIS A ZIT? – (ibid)
} Are there other verses?
Yes, but you don't want to hear 'em. They are *reeeaaalllly* obscure!
Hope this helps. – Gary L. Dryfoos
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