Larry Adler plays himself and performs “Roumanian Rhapsody”. Red Skelton has a dance scene in which a young Negro boy plays a medley of songs on a harmonica while another dances with Red. There is a harmonica duel, a show of one-upmanship, between Smiley Burnette (1911-1967) and Bill Russell (1890-1970), both players. The Stranger from Ponca City-Smiley Burnette and Bill Russell
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Pinky, an orphan, plays the harmonica for his dancing caterpillar Curly.Ī movie about love and money, a woman and a sailor, in which, Arthur Chesney portrays a harmonica player. Top Man-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals Madame Sul-te-wan, one of the other characters, is a harmonica player.Īlways in my Heart-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals To view the life of the downtrodden, a movie director disguises himself as a hobo.
Jerry claims that “when he finally became a General, he wrote to me and said that the harmonica was his favorite form of relaxation which he played while flying bombing missions over Germany” (115). In his book, Living from Hand to Mouth (Bloomington, Indiana: Author House, 2005), He became Jimmy’s instructor and Jimmy actually became a harmonica player. At the time, Jerry Adler (1918-2010) prepped Hollywood actors pretending to play the harmonica. Jimmy Stewart’s character plays the harmonica. Gary Cooper plays a harmonica playing hobo, John Doe. MGM’s seven-minute cartoon, released on June 8, 1940, features the music and comedy routines of Borah Minnevitch’s Harmonica Rascals. Tom Turkey and his Harmonica Humdingers- Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals Hit Parade of 1941-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals He also played a song on a Little Lady on the Ed Sullivan Show in the early 1960s. While riding on a horse backwards, Harpo Marx plays a harmonica. Smart Politics-Cappy Barra Harmonica Band Rascals-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica RascalsĪs Scarlet walks down a street in post-bellum Atlanta, a group of ex-slaves plays various instruments, one of which is a large Wilhelm Thei-like harmonica appropriate for the times.
Mad About Music-Cappy Barra Harmonica Bandĭuring Laurel and Hardy’s funny musical skit, a Little Lady harmonica is swallowed and played.įred Astaire dances and plays a chromatic harmonica during the song “Since They Turned ‘Loch Lomond’ into Swing”. One in a Million-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals Musical Airwaves-Cappy Barra Harmonica Band Where’s That Tiger-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals Radio New York-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals Mickey Mouse plays several instruments including a harmonica.Ĭamping-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals My Shawl-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascalsįinn and Caddie-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals King Vidor’s early sound film about Zeke, a cotton sharecropper, features a harmonica in a juke joint scene.īoxcar Rhapsody-Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals So, what’s the real story? Did they just get the dates wrong and both versions are correct? Adler’s manager, Sol Hurok (1888-1974) of Hurok Attractions Inc., 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, provided yet another version of the story in his 1959-60 publicity releases in which “ Vallee again helped to get a job playing the sound for cartoons of Mickey Mouse playing the harmonica” ( S. “The cartoon character played the mouth-organ and Brusiloff had got me the synchronizing job” ( It Ain’t Necessarily So 15). In his 1973 book, The Art of Walt Disney, Christopher Finch credits Wilfred Jackson, one of the musical arrangers, with playing the harmonica in the development of the recording technique for the soundtrack (57). Harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler (1914-2001) also claimed that credit in his book. However, in 1928, Walt Disney (1901-1966) added sound to the big screen in Steamboat Willie featuring a mouse-like cartoon character and the harmonica played a role in that process. There is no harmonica in the movie or soundtrack. This Frank Lloyd silent movie shows a harmonica player in a barn dance sequence.
Let me know about the ones I have missed and I will gladly add them. Since the beginning of motion pictures and sound in the motion pictures, the harmonica was both seen and heard, played by actors, including cartoon characters, in the movie or by harmonica players on the soundtrack or, sometimes both.
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