Congo Jazz
About Congo Jazz
Bosko is hunting when a tiger licks him, ignores the gun, and gives chase. Bosko's flute settles the animal into a dance until Bosko kicks it off a cliff. He spanks a monkey that spits in his eye, then hands an ape a stick of gum. The ape stretches the gum and plucks a tune. The other animals join, playing one another and the plants, and three hyenas laugh with Bosko at the end.
Cast & crew
More about Congo Jazz
Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising directed the second Looney Tunes short. Frank Marsales wrote the music. The earliest known release date is 26 July 1930. Bernard B. Brown supplies Bosko's falsetto, the voice used for most of the series. The previous Bosko cartoon, Sinkin' in the Bathtub, had used a dialect voice instead.
Themes
Background
Harman and Ising were still building the Bosko series for Warner Bros. in 1930. The voice change here is the one that stuck.
Music
Frank Marsales composed the music. The jungle concert is made out of animals and plants rather than a written song.
Preservation
The cartoon survives.
Notes
- Second film in the Looney Tunes series, after Sinkin' in the Bathtub.
- First cartoon with the falsetto Bernard B. Brown used for Bosko afterward.
- Johnny Murray and Carman Maxwell are also listed on voice credits in some catalogs.
- The gum-as-instrument gag belongs to the ape, not to Bosko.
Scenes
- The tiger chases Bosko, then dances once the flute starts.
- The ape pulls a stick of gum into a string and plays it.
- Bosko and three hyenas laugh at the finished number.
