Looney

[Adam Lou Stephanides]

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996 LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu wrote:

> 
> Henry Musikar asks:
> 
> ">      In the backgound, we hear a chorus of sailors singing, in
> >      harmony:
> >
> >      ...we're shovin' right off for ho-ome,
> >      shovin' right off for ho-ome,
> >      shovin' right off for home again!
> >
> >      Chris
> >
> >
> Who was who sang that in looney tunes?"
> 
> 
> Daffy Duck, for one (in Chuck Jones' immortal DUCK AMUCK--talk about paranoia
> and control!)
> 
> (also at least one Dick Powell caricature in one of those Warner cartoon
> pastiches of refs to other films--probably a Tex Avery one).

I remember one cartoon where this was first sung by a chorus of sailors,
then solo by a dopey-voiced character who followed the last "shoving right
off for home again" with a spoken "And we are, too."

--Adam