David Geffen Hall...

[bort]

I'm not going to lie, that's going to sound wrong for a really long time.

[bort]

Write the check and they'll call it "Bort Hall." That sounds ok...

Hahaha! Top of the list if I would have won the giganto-Powerball jackpot. Next time...

[Heavy_Metal]

Doesn't say who played tuba.................

[roweenie]

"Schultz is back again!"

[EdFirth]

I'd bet the farm that it's Joe Tarto. Maybe Uncle Markie will comfirm . They were pretty good friends. Ed

[Uncle Markie]

The Van Buren studios were located in New York City literally across Broadway from the Max Fleischer Studios at that time.

Could be Joe Tarto, but doesn't sound like Joe to my ear. I'm thinking Fred Pfaff - who played big Conns and had a big sound, plus was quite the technician (as evidence by the clean execution in much of the tuba work in this cartoon) is a likely suspect for this one. Joe's tone wasn't as "round" as whoever this is, and Bell wasn't in New York at the time this done. Too bad is no longer with us - he kepts all his date books with notes on who was on every session he ever did. Plus - even in his 70s he remembered just about everything too. I could ask him to confirm who an arranger was for some B side of a Joe Vennti record and he would recall it - accurately.

Winston Sharples whose name appears on this cartoon took over the music supervision of the Popeye cartoons after the Fleischer stuff went to Paramount. According to Joe, when he was doing the Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons Dave Fleischer (Max's brother) - who directed many of these cartoons - also wrote all the music for them.

Van Buren is a pretty obscure animator; the studio did some good work, but never found a character that clicked with audiences like Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny, etc. His animators were holdovers from the Silent Era but obviously by this example managaed the transition pretty well.

Thanks for posting! New to me!

Mark Heter