Little Lulu : Swingin On A Star (1944)

[@pramote6645]

OMG MY CHILDHOOD XD I missed this song so much I’m literally Crying.

[@amadiasthelium9427]

A classic indeed! I use to watch this as a kid in the late 70s. I was walking today and started to sing this song but couldn’t remember why I knew it. I googled the cartoon and immediately knew all the scenes. I miss my older family that passed on. Good memories.

[@belindabaudouy7336]

I was born in Hong Kong in 1940 of English parents, and just before Hong Kong fell to the Japanese in late 1940 my mother and I were evacuated to New Zealand. Before the war ended, due to concerns about the whole Pacific region being overcome, we were again moved in shipping convoy back to the UK. As a four year old I remember this song being used as entertainment on the ship, and until today have never heard it played. I have often sung the words and always finished with the phrase "or would you rather be a fish?". I don't remember the mule and the pig being involved but the fish must have really caught my fascination.

[@stephaniegarcia4654]

Belinda Baudouy You’re a blessing.

[@Johnlindsey289]

I had a tape of cartoons from Casper little lulu and more at age five back in 87 at five and this takes me back. I was surprised they used it in Hudson hawk

[@brambrammetje2970]

I also had a tape with lulu and casper 😊 bootlegged i think 😅

[@cloudzack1090]

remeber watching this on an vhs tape as a kid, had a collection of old cartoons including this

[@ohwaitno]

Same! Was it not like 6 hours of cartoons?

[@Jennifergustawski]

cloudzack1090 It was my favorite tape. I still have it after 25 years.

[@ThyDungeonman2]

Jesus, did EVERYONE have this same VHS tape???

[@lovemymuzic1]

ThyDungeonman2 no I actually watched it on TV long before the advent of vhs tapes lol. Right along with the original Tom n Jerry cartoons. Best era ever for them :) And I love everything current, too.

[@jpop911]

Jenna, this may seem odd I'm looking for a copy of this tape, but I don't know which volume or version it is. Would you be willing to send me a photo of it?

[@TehNewParalyzer]

Damn, I had this on a VHS haha

[@cameronjansz88]

haha same

[@ashotofwhiskey219]

I still have my grandma's old VHS of this.

[@JOEROGILLIO]

Moana soundtrack

[@AndyHTu]

haha me too. so depressing watching this.

[@sabatonliam]

I still ya e it around my house somewhere

[@aspiringice]

i remember watching this as a little kid on some random dvds my parents got me. as a 17 year old i still remember it so vividly

[@baruchcitygirl]

AspiringIce same, i can’t even

[@dizzymisslizzy1428]

im 18 and i think we probably had the same dvds lol

[@NegotiableHemingway]

I've been singing this without realising to myself for years and years until I finally decided to google what it was and as soon as I saw this I remembered watching it when I was about 3-4 years old on vhs.

[@dragongaming4255]

Last time I watched this was when I was 2yrs old.omg my nostalgia is killing me.

[@Q80Pandora]

Was singing this when I woke up this morning and my kids asked me what the song was. So I had to google Little Lulu swinging on a star! I loved watching this as a kid in the early 90s. I just realised this a cartoon from the 1940s. It’s timeless in my opinion.

[@Giselle1]

Wow 1944.... I saw this see when was a little.....and I was born in 1983, I can't believe this it too old .

[@Johnlindsey289]

Born 82 and saw this when I was five

[@st.charlesstreet9876]

I just had to look it up. Jerry Colonna was third person singing in the group. He was always part of Bob Hope’s team ! 😮

[@L.Fontein7]

I'm 67 and remember watching this on TV when I was like 4 years old. Swinging on a Star is my favorite.

[@milky1234123]

Man this really takes me back to when i was little kid and my dad would bring all of these random vhs from yardsales and he gaves us first dibs on any cartoons one to watch and keep what we wanted and sell the rest at the flea market here in town. this was on a collection of like 50 cartoons along with some superman vs nazi episodes. this song came to mind right now i was humming it and i vaguely remembered some words and lulu. The magic of youtube gave me this as first results. ah really takes me back to those weekdays watching this on summer breaks man we had it good back then

[@davidquint2512]

I'm glad you have fond memories!

[@wkeeble1251]

0:40 I remember having this one VHS, and as a kid... 😅 I did not understand a word he said.. until now "And be better off than you are"

[@oranjekitty5794]

I remember watching this on my mom's bed as a kid on vhs

[@happybunnyntx]

my first music teacher taught us this song and a few other old songs, I'll always love her for that ^_^ she got me to love music

[@laurahurley9139]

I'm 20 how the heck do I remember this 😂

[@maysarchivez]

I was born in the 2000s but my grandma introduced me to this and thank goodness, loved little lulu:))

[@Joyfulminimalist]

This reminds me of my father.. Rest In Peace. He was 5 when this came out, had me later on in life in his mid 40's. He would play this for me, as a child. This and the oldies!

[@serienengel]

i used to watch this at my grandparents house as a little girl. i miss them :(

[@TUM_Toons]

I remember watching this when I was 5. This, Little Audrey and Casper

[@stephenholloway6893]

You grew up on the Paramount shorts. They were original distributor of these shorts but you probably saw the television prints that removed the Paramount logos.

[@TUM_Toons]

@@stephenholloway6893 yeah. I remember not seeing the Paramount logo for those. But I did see it for the Noveltoon and the Popeye

[@ladygreystoke]

So glad I found this! I am 24 and I remember seeing this when I was little. My grandfather used to sing this song to my mum when she was a kid.

[@felipethefirst8293]

when I was like 2 or 3 my parents always showed me 30's or 40's cartoon and this was one of my favorite damm I feel like I am 70 years old

[@mellobun]

Thank you for posting this! It is a long-lost memory that just popped into my head. When I was in Kindergarten, if I got to school early we would sit in the library and the teacher would play old cartoons. We watched a lot of Little Lulu and this number stuck in my head for years.

[@sophisfukingfantasmo]

I used to watch this when I was a very little girl. I'm 20 now, and still love it.

[@manhatin]

@wesims2 They are: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Jerry Colonna.

[@Caryoulater12]

Thanks soo much for posting this!!!!! I remember as a Kid watching all the older Little LuLu's such as this one.

[@Karryhuur]

Man this reminds me of my childhood, love love love it!

[@Toadsanime]

I'm 17, and others have also said, I too had this on video and I believe I watched it every now and then when younger. Literally haven't heard this in years.

[@elisha_jane]

I had a set of Little Lulu episodes when I was a lil tiny thing. Favored her over Betty Boop quite a lot! Anyways, this made me so happy to find.

[@WytZox1]

+Elisha Curry ~> Some more recent Little Lulu cartoons that ran on HBO began with Lulu doing a monologue on a stage in front of an audience much like Jerry Seinfeld did on his sitcom. ☺

[@elisha_jane]

I have SEEN that :)

[@WytZox1]

Ever since the Little Lulu comic books of my childhood I always thought Iggy and Anny seemed kind of creepy. ☺

[@sinovus4320]

Little Lulu was the shit for me! Childhood memories!

[@kaegee2579]

I love Little Lulu shorts. My grandma showed it to me and I've loved it ever since!

[@AnotherSpecialEdMom]

This is one of my favorite cartoons of all times. I remember watching it on TV in the '50s and '60s and singing along. Thanks for posting. It has brought back many good memories.

[@xvandyx]

Grew up watching this OVER and over. Love it. :)

[@birdie9038]

This was my favorite episode. Too bad I lost my Little Lulu videos.

[@trippcory]

How's ya lose me?

[@trippcory]

+tripp cory Lose them

[@starharleyn]

My grandma didn't have cable but she had little Lulu and other cartoons on a vhs I love when she says. "Sir he went that-a-way."

[@amandarutter5345]

Thank you for this. Extremely sentimental to me and have been searching for a while.

[@studio2hanselandgretel327]

I grew up with this song and with this cartoon. Kid TV shows in the 1950s didn't have that many cartoons and often repeated them - but we still loved them! Around 1960s or so, "Huckleberry Hound" and "Rocky and Bullwinkle" came out. These, of course where made for TV and not for the movies.

[@PuchitoGuzmán]

Man this was entertainment when I was young. And the cartoon the woman in the shoe 🎶”my momma don’t like no music played in here”🎶

[@setsuna2021]

Amazing that this is on youtube! I just randomly thought of it today and can't believe i really found it! :O I shd still have this somewhere on VHS lolol

[@Atalla]

I heard this song about a week ago in a store and I immediately thought of this cartoon! For the longest time I couldn't remember the name of this character. Thanks for uploading :)

[@tnaoro]

Lyrics: Would you like to swing on a star Carry moonbeams home in a jar And be better off than you are Or would you rather be a mule A mule is an animal with long funny ears Kicks up at anything he hears His back is brawny but his brain is weak He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak And by the way, if you hate to go to school You may grow up to be a mule Or would you like to swing on a star Carry moonbeams home in a jar And be better off than you are Or would you rather be a pig A pig is an animal with dirt on his face His shoes are a terrible disgrace He has no manners when he eats his food He's fat and lazy and extremely rude But if you don't care a feather or a fig You may grow up to be a pig Or would you like to swing on a star Carry moonbeams home in a jar And be better off than you are Or would you rather be a fish A fish won't do anything, but swim in a brook He can't write his name or read a book To fool the people is his only thought And though he's slippery, he still gets caught But then if that sort of life is what you wish You may grow up to be a fish A new kind of jumped up slippery fish And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo Every day you meet quite a few So you see it's all up to you You can be better than you are You could be swingin' on a star

[@Autumn_Atomic]

A new kind of jumped up slippery fish isn't the lyric "but than if that sorta life is what you wish, you may grow up to be a fish" is the proper lyric.

[@RichardCraig]

0:39 - this part always made me laugh, as a kid and now for totally different reasons. Extreme racism aside, Lil Lulu was a really funny cartoon.

[@CosmicAscent]

was it racist? I don't remember that. But maybe I missed it, I don't know *shrugs* I love these cartoons anyways

[@el_mismisimo_sr.x]

Why racist? They were just making fun of a celebrity

[@Autumn_Atomic]

all the monkeys aren't in the zoo! Everyday you see quite a few.

[@bombabombom3603]

@@el_mismisimo_sr.x The half-baked logic is that because they're making fun of his silly sounding voice, it's automatically racist because he's not white. The reason why we lost Apu in a nutshell.

[@LEOvsMAO]

@@bombabombom3603 I thought it makes fun about foreign accent, not skin color (they are all yellow there, like stars). Like I can imagine it would be the same for me, as white person from Easter Europe, but it's okay. TBH, Americans should stop this idiocracy with being offended by anything. Comedown to Earth please

[@durece100]

This is my childhood from my VHS tape. 😍

[@grayfireproductions]

Hey, me too until just now. I only knew of Bob Hope from a couple of Bing movies and this tape full of Christmas specials he did.

[@dragongamer2317]

I had this on dvd. I still watch it. Lol.

[@mikemaldonado9960]

ive been looking for this....FOREVER

[@stormy32316]

@LittleKarpat I used to watch this at my grandparents' house too! I had to sing the song today as a music therapy student working with the elderly and just had to look it up on KZbin to watch it again after about 20 years!

[@PhilippaMaryAlice]

Yes! Finally! I kept thinking about this song & video & not remembering what it was called! Then I found it! :D

[@Tkscz]

My mom use to order a series of classic cartoons on VHS and this was on there. I used to watch the hell out of it. I also found it funny that it's a cartoon about school and they spell writing wrong lol.

[@marvinmuonekejazz]

I really love how they used a snippet of the Bing Crosby commercial recording and mixed it in with this arrangement

[@andy4an]

holy crap, I'm only 29, how do I remember this?

[@lovexx5633]

weesh ful I'm 27 n I remember lol

[@aleeabandoned5199]

I'm 16 and I remember this

[@youssefalhalwagii]

Omg this episode used to scare the shit out of me ..... i used to cry when i see this scene

[@soulshaker205]

One word: Nostalgic!

[@Rainielovealways]

My dads watching a programme about Bing Crosby and this song came on, and i remembered a cartoon with this song in, couldnt remember anything else so i searched Bing Crosby and cartoon and found this, i must have been 3-4, now im 25, wow! I wish i could find some of the other old cartoons that i used to watch :)

[@grace-yz2sr]

Motivation for first-grade learners.

[@lovexx5633]

grace3726 woot

[@Voyagersguidebook]

That little Lu Lu was so clever. lol. Loved these cartoons growing up.

[@ANIMEGURL1227]

God we listened to this song in choir class and i'm just sitting there in extreme concentration about what cartoon my mom used to make me watch that had this song in it. FINALLY! It took me 3 weeks to figure it out!

[@BellasMom88]

Does anybody else remember this? Flash way back to childhood ! :)

[@richardbrayboy2285]

I was listening to my four year old singing this. Kinda cool.

[@Glambert345]

I even saw this in the 60's on my tv.

[@maegaggles]

i loved this vhs!

[@Impressionsish]

@padraigdublin95 Yes I think my brother and I did, it was our favourite video growing up, we watched it so many times the tape got dirty so we had to throw them away. They were Warner Brothers classic tapes which came in giant video boxes as there was two videos to each box. They were not unlike the Disney sing-a-longs videos, but had the 'best of' episodes of Warner Brothers. In them was a Christmas one called 'Big Paw' about bears meeting 'Big Paw' during Christmas.

[@jessicagarcia8091]

this is a major throwback!!!

[@natis212]

0:40 that face 😂

[@cabotschapterswellswharfsv6157]

What a memoriesLulu

[@leahfox7076]

The last time I watched this I was like 4 or 5. I’m 43 now and I remember everything! As a kid I didn’t realize it was from the 1940’s!

[@bubblinbrownsugar616]

YES!! YES!!! YES!!!! I love this part!!!

[@karltoontv]

Damm. How did I end up here? I used to own the VHS with this episode.

[@happyraccoon4791]

In 1960 I often got in trouble at school. Had to write I Will Not......xxxx And one day I had an epiphany. You'll see my solution at the end of the cartoon. I used 4-5 at a time and that helped time wise🤔😎

[@lozy2k3]

hi lauras son here i love this video my grandma says if you dont go to school you will become a sheeple

[@narutrix6]

i think i still have this on vhr :D

[@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918]

Cute song; I’ve always liked it......

[@eissoaimesmo]

Classic !

[@TheRanyel]

pow, lukuzinha, kkkkk

[@acreasy1]

I still sing this little ditty all the time! We had quite a fun mix of cartoons on VHS in the mid 80's. I never understood why the pig was wearing a party hat or why the fish had some sort of horn growing out of his head....I had no idea they were dunce caps till years later. lol

[@MJN_SEIFER]

Didn't freak me out as a kid, but I always remebered it more than the others.

[@hannahmontanarox468]

lol i was always wondering what this song was...thanks for posting it (: this is awesome!!

[@Tiwake]

This is one of the cartoons I grew up watching, and one of the few I will never forget. Now that I'm 22 I realize how true this was with Apollo and Orion. Unfortunately politics killed Orion, otherwise people would have been landing on Mars in the late 1980's. Dont forget that this song was written ~15 years before Apollo.

[@jzzlvrmee]

@queenalice0132 Only a part, I remember seeing these Lulu cartoons when I was growing up....

[@alannahkiwi]

@penny1240 little lulu. it was a show:)

[@kndrquinn08]

Memories :)

[@singer20441]

@LittleKarpat i have a cd my mom got me but its scratched i wanted to watch the 8 episodes

[@curtisdavis2157]

#SoCaptivatingReally!

[@thelight7997]

3:25 = priceless

[@stephenholloway6893]

The song won the Oscar for best song as well. Though not the version in this short.

[@sinovus4320]

Childhood memories!

[@Mydogandme23]

3:24 haha, that clever little lulu ;)

[@frAnkie252473]

I too had this on vhs haha my grandma gave to to me. I've been trying to think of the name of it, haven't watched it in years, any ideas?? i remember one cartoon was about santa visiting an orphanage and making toys for the kids, was great i just wish i could find out what its called

[@Queenofawesome25]

I watched this like everyday at my house until it broke :(.

[@christmasmatt21]

2:07 LETTER CONGA LINE!!! If those really happened at school, they'd make things REALLY fun!!

[@joelrivera6020]

This and the old lady and the shoe song

[@lendog3000]

i love this i dontcare how gangsta i am now. this cartoon was my child hood.. LiL lulu,. the shit

[@sinovus4320]

literally my whole childhood in one video

[@mastergirl922]

I remember this lol

[@GerardBlaize]

there was a video of these 40s little lulu episodes in my grannies... i have no idea how they got there- it seems like such a random esoteric cartoon to have on video... i haven't seen this since i was four

[@TheAdamkenneyfriedla]

I fear I've transformed into a bit of all those silly creatures!

[@Mariah140292]

the only one I didn't know was Jerry. This is my favourite song of ALL time.

[@ryanleakey2812]

I used to have this on a cassette tape thing that I put in my VCR and I can't remember what the video was called and I can't find it (which is annoying) if anyone could help then I'd be grateful

[@cameronjansz88]

its a show called little lucy

[@cameronjansz88]

+Giklab esuled woops i meant little lulu

[@HyliaHarkinian]

+ryan leakey kisscartoon.me/Cartoon/The-Little-Lulu-Show

[@bioex0rcist]

a bout with a trout

[@TVkingOmega]

To propel asking who the guy with the mustache was, that was Jerry Colonna, aka the March Hare

[@wesims2]

Who Is The 3 men on 0:37 ?