10th
Morning Cartoons
Apparently, it’s cartoon week at Pay Attention.
I’m not sure if every parent experiences this, but even before my daughter was born, I started making plans to control curate her pop culture experience. Honestly, I can’t stand the bulk of modern children’s programming, and I freely admit that most of the shows I watched as a kid were pure crap too.
It isn’t that I plan to cut her off from her own generations pop culture, but I want to at least lob some influence in her direction. So we’ve been watching a few cartoons every morning, mostly Donald Duck cartoons from the 30s through the 50s because they’re both hilarious and gorgeous. (There’s a nice collection that Disney hasn’t seen fit to remove from YouTube if you want to check them out).
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to broaden her horizons a bit and showed her the Chuck Jones classic “One Froggy Evening”, better known as “that cartoon with the singing frog.” Apparently she enjoyed it because she now requests it every morning.
Which brings me to the point that I actually meant to post about. The songs featured in the short are extremely infectious. After I watch it, I find that I can’t get them out of my head for most of the morning. I decided to do a little research, and possibly purchase copies of the songs. During my research, I found a site that gives the full background of each of the songs that the frog sings.
It’s worth checking out, if only to discover how disturbing some of the music really is.
