I Love to Singa

This article is about the theatrical short. For the song, see "I Love to Singa". For the version that appears in The Looney Tunes Show, see "I Love To Sing-A (segment)".

I Love to Singa
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	July 18, 1936
Run time	8:14
Starring	Jackie Morrow Billy Bletcher Tedd Pierce
Producer(s)	Leon Schlesinger
Music composed by	Norman Spencer
Animation	Charles Jones Virgil Ross
Director(s)	Fred Avery
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I Love to Singa is the sixty third Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on July 18, 1936. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Tex Avery.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Owl Jolson	Jackie Morrow Tommy Bond (singing voice)
Fritz Owl	Billy Bletcher
Jack Bunny	Tedd Pierce

Locations

• Earth
  • United States

Vehicles

• None of importance.

Music

The music was composed by Norman Spencer and as with many Warner Bros. cartoons made in 1930s, it pulls from music from the Warners library. The titular song, "I Love to Singa," was first written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg for the 1936 Warner Bros. feature-length film The Singing Kid.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: July 18, 1936 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• It is one of the earliest Merrie Melodies shorts produced in the three-strip Technicolor process.
• The radio host, Jack Bunny, is a parody of Jack Benny.

Everlasting influence

• In the premiere episode of South Park, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe," a beam from the Visitors causes Cartman to inexplicably lapse into a dance routine and perform "I Love to Singa."
• The title song would be performed as a Merrie Melodies segment in The Looney Tunes Show episode "Gribbler's Quest".