Posted By BillHeise on March 25, 2009

I’m not sure what is wrong with me, but I suspect everything’s my parents fault. Growing up my father had a great sense of humor, and one of the things he taught us to appreciate was the music of Spike Jones, a band leader in the 1940s who specialized in satirical songs. One of my favorite Spike Jones recordings was “The Fuehrer’s Face.”

Wikipedia has this to say about that:

In 1942, a strike by the American Federation of Musicians prevented Spike from making commercial recordings for over two years. He could, however, make records for radio broadcasts.

Recorded days before the record ban, Jones scored a huge broadcast hit late in 1942 with “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” a humorous attack on Adolf Hitler that followed every use of the word “Heil” with a razzberry (as in the repeated phrase “Sieg Heil, (razzberry), Heil (razzberry), right in Der Fuehrer’s face!”).

The success of the record prompted Disney to retitle the animated cartoon after the song. The song eventually reached number three on the charts, and it is said that even Hitler heard it.

Anyway, here’s Disney’s original animation of “The Fuehrer’s Face.”

“Thank you, music lovers.”

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