I Love to Singa

I Love to Singa is a 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.
==Summary==
Owls are happy with their three classically musical kids but dismayed at their fourth one, who won't stop singing jazz. So they kick him out. He goes on Jack Bunny's radio show (billing himself as Owl Jolson), and the family is reunited.
==Plot==
A very stern owl who teaches 'voice, piano & violin, but no jazz!' becomes a father of four. Very soon, three of his boys turn out to be musical talents in the classical repertoire. However, the fourth isn't into classical music but into jazz. When he keeps singing jazz songs, the father decides that enough is too much and turns him into the street, much to the distress of the mother. While joyously walking and singing through the forest, the young son stumbles across a radio audition day and decides to try his luck.
==Trivia==
Based on the song (by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg) from Warner Bros.'s Al Jolson movie "The Singing Kid".
Although the protagonist is named after Al Jolson, he does not sing in a Jolson-styled voice.
Tommy Bond is perhaps better remembered as "Butch" of the Our Gang / Little Rascals film series.
The father owl was first voiced by Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion in the film The Wizard of Oz), but replaced by Billy Bletcher for the final production.
As this is one of the most requested cartoons on the wikia, so we thought we'd include the lyrics to the original version of the song (as performed by Al Jolson with Cab Calloway):
I love to sing-a
About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a,
I love to sing-a,
About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,
Anything-a with a swing-a to an "I love you-a,"
I love to, I love to sing!
Give me a song-a
About a son-a gun that went and done her wrong-a.
But keep it clean-a,
With a cottage small-a by a waterfall-a,
Any sob-a that will throb-a to a bluebird's call-a,
I love, I love to sing!
I was born a singin' fool-a,
Lah-de-dah!
Ol' Major Bowes is gonna spot me,
Got through Yale with boula-boula,
Lah-de-dah!
Old microphone's got me!
I love to sing-a,
I love to wake up with the south-a in my mouth-a,
And wave a flag-a,
With a cheer for Uncle Sammy and another for my mammy,
I love to sing!
The swingin'est,
Hot singin'est,
Bell-ringin'est,
Song singin'est
High tootin'est,
Sky tootin'est,
I love to sing!
Category:Cartoons
Category:Merrie Melodies Cartoons
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:1936 cartoons
Category:Leon Schlesinger Productions Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Tex Avery
Category:Cartoons with music by Norman Spencer
Category:Cartoons animated by Virgil Ross