Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat

Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
	Original title card
Directed by	Walter Lantz
Story by	Ben Hardaway
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music by	Darrell Calker
Animation by	Alex Lovy; Frank Tipper
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	March 28, 1941;
Running time	7 min (one reel)
Country	United States
Language	English

Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat

"Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat" is a 1940 hit boogie-woogie popular song written by Don Raye. A bawdy, jazzy tune, the song describes a laundry woman from Harlem, New York whose technique is so unusual that people come from all around just to watch her scrub. The Andrews Sisters and Will Bradley & His Orchestra recorded the most successful pop versions of the song, but it is today best recognized as the centerpiece of an eponymous and controversial Walter Lantz Studio cartoon from 1941, distributed by Universal Pictures.^[1]

^ Sampson, Henry T. (1998). That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900–1960. Scarecrow Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-8108-3250-3.

[Enough-1] Sampson, Henry T. (1998). That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900–1960. Scarecrow Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-8108-3250-3.

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