(Boomerang) T&J: Tom is Scandinavian?

[Flicky]

I was watching Tom and Jerry, and something caught my ear! I heard tom sing Santa Lucia, who is like the Santa Claus of Scandinavia. I've never heard anyone outside of Scandinavia sing it (besides us, in music class), and by the looks of the weather, it was probably mid-summer, and SL comes in December. Discuss.

[rainstorm46]

I was watching Tom and Jerry, and something caught my ear! I heard tom sing Santa Lucia, who is like the Santa Claus of Scandinavia. I've never heard anyone outside of Scandinavia sing it (besides us, in music class), and by the looks of the weather, it was probably mid-summer, and SL comes in December. Discuss.

Which episode of Tom and Jerry was this.

[Flicky]

Which episode of Tom and Jerry was this.

The Episode where they went onto that ship and Tom met an orange cat and he had Jerry. I wasn't really paying much attention. OH, and at the end Jerry gets drunk and sings Santa Lucia with an occasional Hiccup.

[Blackstar]

I believe that the short in question is Cat and Dupli-Cat (1966) Directed by Chuck Jones.

If Tom singing "Santa Lucia" is an indication that he is Scandinavian, then Jerry posing as "El Magnifico" means that he must be Spanish.

Incidentally, "Santa Lucia" was also once sang by Francis X. Bushlad in an episode of Taz-Mania.

[snowpeck]

Elvis recorded the song also... does that make him Scandinavian?

That song was popular with the big-band type groups of that time, and the song is actually of Greek origin (later translated to Italian) about the Borga Santa Lucia waterfront district of Naples. Scandinavian people later created new lyrics for the song to associate it with the winter Saint Lucy festival. But other than that, the song has absolutely nothing to do with Scandinavia.

Greg

[Steve Carras]

MANY old-time cartoons featured that ITALIAN song!:

"A Hound for Trouble"[WB, Jones, 1951]
"A Pizza Tweety-Pie" [you know what studio!;Freleng;1957]
"Lolla-bRICKA-DA"[I think that's the title"[Hanna-Barbera, 1961?, Hanna-Barbera,1961]

And I tink just about every other cartoon studio when they needed an Italian setting! PS I've been off for a while due to my computer being not working and fixed but it is fixed..just relogged in.:)