MUS 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paul Henning, Petticoat Junction, The Andy Griffith Show
Document Summary
The hillbilly on radio & in film. Part 3: starring percy kilbride as pa kettle and marjorie main as ma kettle, the popular film series started off with them appearing as secondary characters in the 1947 film the egg and i. In the soundtrack, cartoon film composer carl stalling replays the children"s song little baby. Bumblebee which seems to have enjoyed a long association with the rube characters that dated back to the stage. The lyrics to the song show how this children"s song can be transferred to a slow-witted country clown. Stalling sets this as an instrumental: later tv cartoons, such as quick draw mcgraw, portrayed the slow-talking. Hillbilly type as a western stock character: hanna-barbera also produced the hillbilly bears in the wake of the popular tv show the beverly hillbillies, mayberry. In the early 1960"s, abc"s the real mccoys was probably the first television.
