Monday 20 July 2009

Woody Hackspett

My friend Germund just sent me a photo of this sheet music from 1948. It's the Woody Woodpecker ("Hacke Hackspett" in Swedish) song, that was a hit in the States.
But, I wonder if the Swedish publishers had any idea at all what Woody Woodpecker looked like...

Edit: Here's the cover to the US version of the sheet music. See how similar yet very, very different they are.

2 comments:

Smurfswacker said...

"Your Hit Parade" was an old radio show that presented the week's top songs sung by the program's "staff" of performers. There's a recording of a "Hit Parade" in which this song was sung by young Frank Sinatra. You ain't heard nothing until you've heard Frank croon, "Ha ha ha haaa ha."

Anonymous said...

Just a thought: Maybe they didn't want to seek permission from Walter Lantz to print the "real" Woody Woodpecker. Maybe they only had rights to the sheet music.