Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish

[@drewphillips3241]

Looney Tunes brought me here... In a way.

[@ViralVenom]

Same, I've been playing some of the Public domain ones for my daughter right here on youtube.
I needed to hear the song proper.

[@apothicd8770]

No kidding ive been looking for this song forever whence I saw daffy duck singing it. Thank God I finally found it or I would have went looney tunes myself.

[@markloveless1001]

Porky Pig, Ali Baba Bound. Porky sings a few verses.

[@Shadyacres11]

Same here. My son was watching it. Porky was singing and it caught my attention.

[@570y3n]

wow, I've been looking for this song for 30 years. I've never known what it is, or anyone who knew it.

[@kevinwollenweber340]

We definitely have to thank the animated cartoon, especially Looney Tunes and merry melodies, for expanding our desire to want to learn more about this music, this incredible music!

[@willmcmillan1430]

I agree!

[@artvandelay6421]

That's why I'm here, thanks Porky.

[@waynejones205]

Most of what I know about the 40's and thereabouts came from Warner Bros!! :D Here's one of their frequent Instrumentals!!

[@julietvalcouer]

Don't forget the Muppet Show.

[@edcaley]

This film was from 1938. Nobody here presumably had any idea what lay ahead of them over the subsequent 7 years…I wonder how many made it through. But regardless of that, I love the exuberance of this performance.

[@dicksilk]

My mom (age 89) just mentioned this tune today... that her mother (born around 1906, +/-) used to sing this to her.

[@WildBillCox13]

My Mum (a 1920 baby) sang it to me.

[@tomcat3360]

⁠I was 18 in 1973 and all my friends thought I was weird. Now I know I’m on the autism spectrumv, and I’m not ashamed of my music choices. ❤

[@willmcmillan1430]

I first heard about this song on a CD presentation of a talk (with lots of songs) given by Johnny Mercer at the 92nd Y in the early 1970s. Mercer wrote the lyrics. Then I read about it again in a biography of Harry Warren, who wrote the music. Now I learn from the comments that it was also sung in a Looney Tunes cartoon. THANK YOU, copfield, for sharing this clip on UA-cam so that we could see the original movie version!

[@kareymoore502]

Not one mention of Bette Midler's rendition from For the Boys!! 30 plus years and this tune still pops in my head every so often... along with Billy-a-dick. 😂😂😂

[@TiqueO6]

Also look for “lady on the two cents stamp “from the same movie, there are some great antics in there almost superhuman vocal and facial stunts! Definitely these things would’ve inspired the cartoons and probably vice a versa as well.

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

I'm here because UA-cam took down the Muppet show version of this song.

[@chrisyonts9652]

"He hit Buddy! Get him, girls!"

[@takerhapsody]

My grandad would sing this to me .

[@karaali3256]

Porky pig brought me here

[@Phantomsbreath]

Holy crap! That guy's playing a Stroh! I didn't think they actually used them!

[@jaungiga]

One of the early legends of tango, Julio de Caro, famously played one too, after being introduced to the instrument by Paul Whiteman in the mid 1920s

[@stoutyyyy]

Saw the Muppet version

[@kevinbyrne4538]

This tune appears at the start of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Case of the Missing Hare" (1942).
The song first appeared in the 1938 Warner Brothers film "Garden of the Moon".

[@TheMovieUniverse]

Porky Pig sings the song in a cartoon too

[@justinknox571]

@@TheMovieUniverse "Ali Baba Bound"

[@TheMovieUniverse]

@@justinknox571 Thats the one!👍

[@raulduke3237]

Billy West brought me here

[@tomcat3360]

I first heard this on a Warner Brothers 50th anniversary boxed LP set: one for music, and one for film dialog. It wasn’t until UA-cam that I got to see this zaniness.

[@mousetreehouse6833]

OMG, I was just about to write the same thing!
I was 19 in '73 when I bought this, on a whim, at the South Shore Plaza* in Braintree, Mass. I think I wore it out the first year I had it! 🫠
Now, on to "She's a Latin from Manhattan"...
* BEFORE they enclosed it.
Wow- that was EONS ago!

[@roddyteague6246]

This is a corker! I remember it from 2.4 Children years ago when the BBC was worth watching.
Also the tuba solo sounds like it was used by The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band in Intro & Outro.

[@inskip072]

Those days are gone, that's life I guess.

[@carissakirksey6606]

OMGosh, Professor Colonna! 😂

[@WildBillCox13]

With Jerry as the Tattooed Woman.

[@richardgraham5051]

Delightful!

[@TikiDragon1]

Who else is here because of Overlord DVD?

[@hebneh]

“He dreams of a Hindu honeymoon...”

[@adrianjohnson7920]

Weird, considering that Dervishes are Muslim.

[@hebneh]

@@adrianjohnson7920 And considering what happened between the two religions at the time of the partition of Pakistan in the 1940s, mixing them up would've led to violence and death.

[@johnwilson1094]

It’s in the same category as “upsot”in Jingle Bells. Hindu and Honeymoon were probably an alliteration Johnny Mercer just couldn’t pass up.

[@user-vx7qn5qr1b]

Honestly the oriental perspectives are mess, not suprised they dont know much about what they are sayig

[@johnwilson1094]

He could have made it a Haji Honeymoon, but no one would know what Johnny Mercer was smoking, so Hindu it had to be.

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Funny how music was much more entertaining when it didn't focus on either guns, drugs, money and b*tches ...novelty tunes were so much fun....and they didn't worry about political correctness for anyone who wasn't a rapper.

[@blackraptor1154]

Paula Harris Baca Yeah! This song focuses on an adulterer who fucks musicians while her boyfriend is out trying to make a liv- see where I’m going? It’s always been about this: people’s problems and the fantasies they have. “Anything Goes” is literally one of the best diss track out right now.

[@1846tt]

I believe this actually falls square in your latter mentioned category, "bitches".

[@nikkigallagher163]

You do realise music has always been cheeky and kinda dirty? Look up Lucille Bogan’s song “til the cows come home” which came out in the 1930’s. And “girlfriend of the whirling dervish” is literally about a woman cheating on her man while he’s out working hard in a well-respected societal position trying to earn money for the both of them - and his mates are laughing at him behind his back.

[@waynejones205]

WHo's Venuti? lol :) He played with Bix Biederbecke at one time, no?

[@aoomerjee]

Whats the Movie name?

[@Summer21.]

It’s called “Garden Of The Moon”. 😃

[@aoomerjee]

@@Summer21. thanks

[@Summer21.]

@@aoomerjee You’re very welcome. 😊

[@MrRagePotato]

Does anyone know what film this is from?

[@copfield]

"Garden of the Moon" (1938)
www.amazon.com/Garden-Moon-Pat-OBrien/dp/B005EXA8O6/

[@RRW1982]

'Garden of The Moon (1938)'

[@jordancarter3258]

I prefer Bugs Bunny.

[@SteveAydt]

Who's the band?

[@lawrencetoppman9151]

Joe Venuti and his Swing Cats, according to the movie poster for “Garden of the Moon.”

[@SteveAydt]

Thanks!

[@WildBillCox13]

@@SteveAydt With Comedian, Jerry Colonna, as the trumpeter and masked "GirlFriend".

[@RRW1982]

@@WildBillCox13 Not trumpet, trombone I think.

[@johnwilson1094]

@@lawrencetoppman9151 The band leader (at least in the film) is John Payne, the same actor who played the lawyer love interest in the 1947 Miracle on 34th Street with Maureen O'Hara and Natalie Wood.

[@joblo7]

Can anyone tell what they yell, at the end of the song? 4:35

[@roddyteague6246]

Not sure but it sounds like "Lets Go!"

[@hebneh]

I can't decipher it, but it sounds like "Is that so?!" or "Tic-tac-toe!"

[@izzie275]

I think they say Timbuktu??? But "is that so" sounds more likely.

[@johnwilson1094]

@@roddyteague6246 Perhaps,
That's all!

[@carissakirksey6606]

I think they are yelling "Professor", since the 'lady' turned out to be Professor Jerry Clonna.

[@dawnrogers723]

This is the first Hip-Hop to my thinking

[@RRW1982]

It was indeed hip, very much so, but Swing was then king,
and Satchmo had a LOT to do with that particular fact!

[@gregorykayne6054]

Many of the Big Bands were doing "talk-sung intros" (ancient hip-hop) by 1938; especially on live radio. They had more time on radio than on 3-minute records. Listen to "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" by Glenn Miller.