Carissima Clobber

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you no doubt know all about one of Friz Freleng’s greatest cartoons, Back Alley Oproar, so I don’t have to explain the frames below, other than this is from the part of the cartoon where Sylvester tries to avoid getting bashed for singing outside Elmer Fudd’s window by conning a dopey cat to sing for him. It doesn’t work.



If you don’t know, the cat with the female voice is singing “Carissima,” a 1907 song by Arthur A. Penn. The other, non-Stalling music on the soundtrack:
● Barber of Seville (G. Rossini)
● Sweet Dreams Sweetheart (M.K. Jerome, T. Koehler)
● Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (F. Liszt)
● Some Sunday Morning (R. Heindorf, M.K. Jerome, T. Koehler)
● You Never Know Where You're Goin' Till You Get There (S. Cahn, J. Styne)
● Cradle Song (J. Brahms)
● Frat (J.F. Barth)
● Moonlight Bay (E. Madden, P. Wenrich)
● Sailor's Hornpipe (public domain)
● Angel In Disguise (K. Gannon)
● Sextette from Lucia (G. Donizetti)

Manny Perez, Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy and Ken Champin are the credited animators, with gags by Mike Maltese and Tedd Pierce. The beautiful backgrounds in this are by Paul Julian.