Cindy Walker -- looking a lot like Daisy Mae from LITTLE ABNER -- sings the novelty song in this soundie.
Soundies were short films, usually about three minutes in length, meant to be played on a machine called a Mills Panoram. You might encounter this device in a bar or a night club. Stick in a dime, and get one of the ten songs that were freshly uploaded each week, not your choice. Mills and other companies produced more than two thousand of them from 1940 through 1946, and sometimes you found a well known artist like Cliff Edwards, or someone who would become famous, like Doris Day performing.
Or Miss Walker. I don't recall having heard of this singer doing an act straight out of HEE HAW, but she seems to have been a prolific recording artist.
Soundies were short films, usually about three minutes in length, meant to be played on a machine called a Mills Panoram. You might encounter this device in a bar or a night club. Stick in a dime, and get one of the ten songs that were freshly uploaded each week, not your choice. Mills and other companies produced more than two thousand of them from 1940 through 1946, and sometimes you found a well known artist like Cliff Edwards, or someone who would become famous, like Doris Day performing.
Or Miss Walker. I don't recall having heard of this singer doing an act straight out of HEE HAW, but she seems to have been a prolific recording artist.
