Dancing clarinets and boxing bass fiddles are characters in the Benny Goodman After You're Gone sequence of Disney’s Make Mine Music
Walt Disney brings together, in a new feature-length musical, the music America loves best. Make Mine-Music, always gay, presents a cross-section of what we like to listen to, from Goodman swing to hill billy ballads to Prokofieff’s Peter and the Wolf.
“Ghost-stars” include Dinah Shore, Nelson Eddy, the Benny Goodman quartet, Andy Russell, the Andrews Sisters, the Kings Men, Sterling Holloway and Jerry Colonna. But none of them actually appears on the screen. Disney has created cartoon characters who act out stories to fit the music. Each musical piece is a character, and each character is a piece of music
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