The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (150)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon (featuring the first appearance of Marvin the Martian and his martian pet dog K-9,) the 1948 Haredevil Hare directed by Chuck Jones.



Listen for it: Shortly after the rocket's liftoff, the music heard in the background is from Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey, an excerpt in Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the last movement in Der Ring des Nibelungen.


We're guessing that you are starting to decorate the house for the holidays this weekend. The programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to help get you into the mood. They thought to dust off this funny but forgotten 1951 Bob Hope Christmas themed movie, The Lemon Drop Kid. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn,) and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching The Lemon Drop Kid.



The film introduced the hit Christmas song Silver Bells. While the movie was filmed in 1950, it was not released in theaters until March, 1951. When a recording of Silver Bells by Bing Crosby became a hit in December, 1950, the studio called Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell back to re-shoot a more elaborate musical version of the song for the film's release.


Our other holiday theme for this evening is about a good use for the snow in your front yard - Frosty the Snowman


It't the 50th anniversary of another Rankin/Bass production, Frosty the Snowman, debuting on CBS-TV on this date.



This was Jimmy Durante's final film (not counting documentaries and one short film appearance).


The original recording of Frosty The Snowman by Gene Autry was his seasonal follow-up to his successful recording of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1949.



This time he peaked at #7 in December 1950.


The Snowman in July (1944)




Frosty The Snowman (1953)




Snowman's Dilemma (1960)




The Snowman (1982)



When this program first aired on PBS stations in the United States, the introduction featured a newly filmed introduction by David Bowie instead of Raymond Briggs on the grounds that the animation needed a star.


I will not play the songs featuring Olaf from Frozen (the earworms they cause has led to a UN report being issued concerning possible war crime being committed by yours truly.) Really, don't bother to look for them if you can help yourself.