Bing Sings "Road to Morocco"

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are off on the road to Morocco in this clip from, well, Road to Morocco (1942).

[@WrestlingUniversesOTC]

“Paramount will protect us, cuz we’re signed for five more years” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@citizen1163]

My favourite Road movie! 🤣

[@andydryszko2411]

Just... Brilliant...

[@seanj6310]

✌️

[@RoJoMe]

Back in the ‘40s and ‘50s, movie studios basically owned their actors/actresses who they had on signed contracts. The thing is, the various studios could “loan” (rent) any of the actors at any time to any movie studio, and the actors couldn’t refuse…also, the actors couldn’t work for another studio without first getting the okay from their “home” studio (and even then at a cost). Years of actor-striking eventually paved the way for the road of freedom actors today have. Personally, I’ve watched and loved the “Road to…” movies since I was a little guy, some 50 years ago, and this song was always a favorite of mine.

[@Nick-ty9us]

What’s funny is that Bob Hope was at Paramount for more than five more years

[@joshwhalen17]

Certainties in life: 1.Death 2.Taxes 3.Discovering the original references to decades-old Family Guy bits.

[@juicyfruit6311]

KZbin blocking?

[@emtube9298]

"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco-bound" -- best line! From back when big books were bound in leather...

[@gangsterboy3664]

When the main characters know they have plot armour 😂🤭"Paramount will protect us, cuz we're signed for five more years"

[@cluckerzzyt]

“We’re off on the road to Rhode island, We’re having the time of our lives”

[@cluckerzzyt]

@tyrone102 We’re quite a pair of partners like Thelma & Louise, cept you’re not six feet tall,

[@denishiawilliams895]

@@cluckerzzyt Yes, and your breasts don't reach your knees.

[@cluckerzzyt]

@@denishiawilliams895 Give it time, We’re off to the road to Rhode Island, we’re certainly going in style, 🎵 🎵 I’m with an intellectual who craps inside his pants,

[@denishiawilliams895]

@@cluckerzzyt How dare you! 🎵At least I don't leave urine stains on all the household plants.🎵

[@cluckerzzyt]

@@denishiawilliams895 oh pee jokes, we’ve traveled a bit & we’ve found, like a masochist in Newport we’re Rhode Island bound, Crazy travel conditions, huh?

[@carlh1178]

Love the Road films. Such a great partnership.

[@johnderosa2276]

Their timing is impeccable. Crosby was a very handsome guy.

[@windwaker9514]

that 4th wall break at 1:29 is still hilarious even 60 years later

[@caldadextra2063]

Why do you think Seth MacFarlane repurposed it for the Family Guy episode “Road to Rhode Island”?

[@TheWinningRunner-gl9kw]

That’s what I’m saying

[@jana31415]

this qas over 80 years ago

[@peonycreme]

I see why it got parodied in Family Guy and My Little Pony.

[@kwiett]

This never fails to put a smile on my face.

[@jennifersman7990]

Bob Hope said that he and Bing would ad-lib so much in the films that the scriptwriters complained, so he told one of them to sit in a chair on the set and when he heard something he wrote yell out “BINGO!!”

[@Embermoon91]

You'll never find a better pair of entertainers🤩

[@reubenshuford3582]

If you know about this movie, you’ve got great taste in film!!!

[@zhongwa]

My favorite Road picture.

[@benjaminalbright4003]

Saw this movie for the first time yesterday. I had already seen the first 2. So far, this one is my favourite

[@melaniebruno4632]

Wait till you see Road to Rio! That may even become your favorite; I know it's mine!

[@MontauMediaLLC]

I'm a youngster sort of lol but I've always loved Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.

[@alansouzacruz970]

Two legends 🎬🎵♥

[@CissyEpifany]

"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound" refers to books who were bound with Moroccan leather from Fez, till this day on of THE best leather in the world ♥️ I'm from Fez 🇲🇦😁

[@Hello_World_not_taken]

One of the best buddy-buddy songs!

[@Glinkaism1]

The song was played a lot on the radio when the movie came out.

[@Nick-ty9us]

I can’t blame them. This is a very catchy song.

[@nhprman]

Seth MacFarlane spoofed this in Road to Rhode Island. Same tune. Amazing.

[@johnbellocchio66]

Seth MacFarlane brought this back in a BRILLIANT way.

[@PeteMcCorvey]

I didn't know this is where he got that from until I was up late one night and saw this movie.

[@Incapable.]

ngl i thought seth made the song didnt know it was a parody

[@higgme1ster]

My mom and dad had this in a huge stack of 45's. I didn't understand a word for years. Morocco was the name of a popular leather bookcover binding. It was sort of like Ricardo Montalbán's advertising featuring "Corinthian leather" for the Chrysler Cordoba.

[@timothyryan8983]

BING: Here we go again, Junior BOTH: We're off on the road to Morocco This taxi is tough on the spine (BC: Beats the bus, huh, Junior) (BH: Oh, beats me) Where we're goin' BH: Why we're goin', how can we be sure BC: I'll lay you eight to five that we meet Dorothy Lamour (BH: Yahoo!) BOTH: Off on the road to Morocco Hang on till the end of the line BC: I hear this country's where they do the dance of the seven veils BH: We'd tell you more, but we would have the censor on our tails BOTH: We certainly do get around Like Webster's Dictionary, we're Morocco bound BOTH: We're off on the road to Morocco BC: Look out BH: Well clear the way BOTH: 'Cause here we come BH: The men eat fire, sleep on nails and saw their wives in half BC: It seems to me there should be easier ways to get a laugh BOTH: We're off on the road to Morocco And somewhere I feel kind of numb BC: For any villains we may meet we haven't any fears BH: Paramount will protect us 'cause we're signed for five more years BOTH: We certainly do get around Like a complete set of Shakespeare that you buy in the corner drugstore for a dollar ninety-eight We're Morocco bound Or like a volume of Omar Khayyam that you buy in the department store at Christmas time for your cousin Julia We're Morocco bound

[@esmeephillips5888]

Few comics except the Marxes shamelessly broke the fourth wall and kidded the conventions of Hollywood as much as Bing and Bob. They grew to take suspension of disbelief more seriously as their confidence in their acting abilities grew: particularly Bing, who became an Oscar candidate. But in carefree comedy they complemented each other so well- Hope the cowardly, blustering, gagster, Crosby the ultra-relaxed feed always capable of coming back with a zinger- that Paramount let them improvise a lot and found that audiences were not irritated but amused by the barrage of in-jokes. The success of the Road films showed that moviegoers were becoming more cine-literate.

[@johnbellocchio66]

I don't always love Family Guy but Seth is one of the most all around, universally able entertainers out there today. The voice, the voices, the intellectual humor. He's someone you'd have met in the Yale Club in midtown in the 40s

[@SamanthaJonesSATC]

While American Dad is all I can take from him, the Road to Rhode Island episode and that song they did was back when FG seemed funny and likeable to watch. Having watched both this movie and the Family Guy parody of this song, I definitely get the references.

[@peonycreme]

@@SamanthaJonesSATC Bro, not only Family Guy parodied this song but My Little Pony did too, listen for yourself. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6OUnnynp76Fgdk&pp=ygUQZnJpZW5kc2hpcCBib3VuZA%3D%3D

[@kellvarnssen7443]

The original and FG's version, 58 years apart.

[@SamanthaJonesSATC]

@@kellvarnssen7443 That they are.

[@blueizumi]

"He's someone you'd have met in the Yale Club in midtown in the 40s" He even got trained by the same tutors of Frank Sintara. Seth is truly a man who you sometimes think was born 4 or 5 decades too early.

[@barontaylor7139]

Road to Rhode Island on Family Guy

[@peonycreme]

As you figured, Road to Rhode Island from Family Guy actually parodied this song.

[@johnvoice815]

Morocco and Utopia. My faves. Oh,what the heck.....they're ALL brilliant Hollywood at it's best

[@josephpaul4548]

Wouldn't argue, but Zanzibar is up there.

[@nondescript2892]

Road to Utopia is the craziest of them all..breaks all conventions..like a live tex avery cartoon

[@Queen_Sakura]

If one had gotten into a cheerleading outfit singing about censors, my life would have been completed.

[@casvandijck9338]

But they'd have the censors on their ass! :O

[@Trainboy452]

Yikes.

[@suzieqtruth6377]

That's a real camel.

[@randeelaskewitz5941]

Had to hear this after the Family Guy parody “Off on the Road to Rhodesia Island”

[@jamesmarshall8836]

There was actually one more song written for the soundtrack: Aladdin's Daughter (1942) Music by Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics by Johnny Burke (Written for the movie but not used)

[@jamescampion7880]

The Road To Hong Kong was their last road film and it's my all time favorite. The gags fly fast and furious. Produced by Hope and Crosby and released thru United Artists. Paramount foolishly dropped them.

[@numbersnumbers]

Crazy to think this is almost a century old

[@SammEater]

Road to Morocco is still one of my favorite movies from the series, also, now that I think about it, Ishtar totally tried to rip off this movie.

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

Dec. 25, 2018----This is the stuff I grew up watching in the base theaters years later.....and when comedy was funny and CLEAN.

[@stormcloudsabound]

Ah yes, "clean" comedy. Because that lyric about "we'd tell you more, but then we'd have / the censor on our tails" was SO clean. Euphemistic comedy is still dirty.

[@citizen1163]

@@stormcloudsabound It's called innuendo & the perceived 'dirtiness' is in the mind of the beholder!

[@joelkweskin8545]

I believe this song was introduced by Marian Hutton in an Abbott and Costello movie a few years earlier...

[@Ihaveacrushonsethmacfarlane]

Had a dream twas singing this song✨️

[@dennismackey1297]

Best road movie since the ROAD WARRIOR!!

[@mikehafezi]

The basis for "Road to Rhode Island"

[@drewevans3054]

“That’s... why I’m here”

[@jamesgizasson]

I always thought that song was really clever... should've known it was a parody! X3

[@denishiawilliams895]

@@jamesgizasson More often than not, most of Family Guy's songs are catchy parodies.(Boy, does Seth love the past)

[@ThePsho]

And “Road to Judaea” from History of the World pt 1

[@zachkubish598]

I can audibly hear one of them making the noises at the very end

[@austinmorrison6953]

I gotta see this movie.

[@MyRainbowDash20]

Family guys road to road island. 😂😂

[@TheWinningRunner-gl9kw]

So that’s how Family guy came up with “Road To Rhode Island”

[@RonGerstein]

There were SIX "road" pictures.

[@Nick-ty9us]

Jimmy Van Heusen was definitely a songwriting genius along with his future, songwriting partner Sammy Cahn

[@lolledopke]

Were they actually on a camel while filming this? I never noticed the camel's head before

[@dragoneyecomix2745]

HEy thI5 iS tHe s0nG fr0M FaMI1y guY

[@adammartin180]

without it they wouldn't have known about this video now would they?

[@Bigsmokging]

hey this is the song from mlp

[@Queen_Sakura]

@@Bigsmokging I honestly thought they were ripping off Family Guy in my rage of not being original and then I remembered this and felt so stupid -

[@orange_man_from]

@@Bigsmokging glad that people smarter than me have been making this connection for months. Maybe even years. For 9 at least

[@nicoley133]

@higgme1ster Ha! Trust me, I didn't understand that for the longest time either, I wonder how many people who hear the song actually do. Thanks for the informative comment! Moroccan leather. :)

[@user-ec1el9ch2n]

Very good movie

[@Walrus-fg8ch]

If Bing Crosby just lasted 20 more years you could’ve shook my dad’s hand

[@Paisly_]

What a weird thing to say

[@nickpetka]

If only

[@jointhearumanati8574]

I realized this is the song Family Guy took inspiration from with the song Road to Rhode island

[@owenoliver6564]

Certainly do get ArOo-Ooo-Ooound

[@hopefulbrownsfan1470]

Seth McFarlane has really good taste

[@MisterRic46]

Family Guy anyone ?

[@mr.evasion]

Check out the single version

[@shaneoliver4362]

Vaulting Brought me hear

[@robertcollinsworth9113]

In five more days I'll be like Webster's Dictionary.

[@tonycavanagh1929]

which one is Brian, which one is stewie

[@casvandijck9338]

Bing is Brian, Bob is Stewie.

[@MaestroAlvis]

The guy in front rests his head on finger 3 time

[@debb6393]

Where’s the version where he says ‘hit me with a band aid dad’ and BH also says ‘shall I slip my big shoes on?’ 🤷‍♀️ although must admit any version is amazing.

[@nateobrien354]

Family Guy brought me here

[@codywelter5302]

Same

[@gettyfanatic8860]

Red alert. If that camel has two humps, like this Bactrian camel, then it’s from Western Asia, not Northern Africa.

[@johnvoice815]

Get a life. Who cares?

[@gettyfanatic8860]

@@johnvoice815 🤷

[@barbaraferron7994]

You're right. They knew it and did it as a joke.

[@gettyfanatic8860]

@@barbaraferron7994 A visual joke?

[@OverlordDogz]

All I can hear is Brian and Stewie

[@LTD538]

What genre of music is this?

[@ralphdeluca552]

What is she Bada Bing Crosby?

[@annamaedevlin1713]

Did they realize, "THE PICKLE", America, would be in?

[@foxman4932]

You mean Pearl Harbor? Probably not

[@isabellamorris4029]

Im here because of family guy, but I love this original version a lot!!

[@epicratlord7780]

Same! They both sound amazing

[@lalosdim]

wtf...

[@Nick-ty9us]

My little pony made a parody of this

[@valeriasidon8655]

When?

[@kruzsar6340]

@@valeriasidon8655 in song “we’re friendship bound”

[@Nick-ty9us]

@@valeriasidon8655 In season eight they went so far to use use the words we’re off to the row two

[@Nick-ty9us]

Watch that episode was based on this film series

[@Nick-ty9us]

@@kruzsar6340 even they have very similar instruments the song here

[@YungSylveon]

family guy did it better