Three Little Bops (1957)

Three pigs' career as a jazz band is complicated by a wolf they rejected for membership who keeps blowing down their gigs.

Director:

Friz Freleng

Writer:

Warren Foster (story)

Star:

Stan Freberg

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Stan Freberg	...	Narrator / Big Bad Wolf / Three Little Pigs (voice)

Storyline

Three hip, Little Pigs are travelling entertainers, moving from straw to wood, to brick nightclubs, playing swinging tunes for high-class, "with it" crowds, but an uncool Big Bad Wolf keeps intruding on their act with his "corny horn" and uses it to blow down their nightclubs when they throw him out - until they are playing in their brick club and the Wolf tries a more drastic, explosive method for destroying the "House of Bricks".

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Plot Keywords:

pig | nightclub | jazz | jazz trio | dart | 

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Genres:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Family | Musical

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Certificate:

Approved

Did You Know?

Trivia

The first time that anyone other than Mel Blanc was given screen credit for voices (Stan Freberg did all of the voices for this cartoon).

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Quotes

1st Pig: We've played in the west.
2nd Pig: We've played in the east.
3rd Pig: We've heard the most, but you're the least.

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Crazy Credits

Rather than closing with the "That's All Folks!" card, the cartoon ends with "The End" superimposed over an iris-out.

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Connections

Referenced in Pastor Mike Online: What Is Black Fire on White Fire? (2013)

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Soundtracks

Charleston
Music by James P. Johnson

User Reviews

Pigs are pretty lame, too

The pigs play better than the wolf, but no more hip. They're mostly just vamping on a simple boogie that sounds a lot like "Rock Around the Clock" (And Stan Freberg's inability to find the right pitch is downright painful--way worse than the wolf.)Considering this was made the year Miles released "Kind of Blue," (a year after Bird died.) and considering the really adventurous stuff Shorty Rogers was doing for Stan Kenton around this time, I have to think Warner Bros. dumbed it down musically to what they thought the Lawrence-Welk/Liberace-listening public would like.

For a cartoon that really does something with music, how about "The Rabbit of Seville"?

Glenn

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 January 1957 (USA)

Also Known As:

3匹の子ブタロック

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

7 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1