Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Songwriter Sammy Lerner (1903-1989) wrote this famous theme in less than 2 hours! Movie theaters in the mid-1930s sponsored Popeye clubs were this song was sung a meetings. In this cartoon William "Billy" Costello (1898-1971) the original voice of Popeye is heard.
Songwriter Sammy Lerner (1903-1989) wrote this famous theme in less than 2 hours! Movie theaters in the mid-1930s sponsored Popeye clubs were this song was sung a meetings. In this cartoon William "Billy" Costello (1898-1971) the original voice of Popeye is heard.
![A Christmas Carol [on Radio] with Orson Welles as Scrooge - December 23, 1938](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ri61qdYe2_8/mqdefault.jpg "A Christmas Carol [on Radio] with Orson Welles as Scrooge - December 23, 1938
There are so many Scrooges to choose from on the 180th anniversary of A Christmas Carol but 23 year Orson Welles is very memorable. Lionel Barrymore was supposed to play the part as he had annually (he would resume in 1939 and until 1951) but Welles filled in the part on radio for this broadcast.
After scaring millions (?) into believe there was a Martian Invasion on October 30, 1938, The Mercury Theater of the Air secured Campbells Soups as a sponsor and became The Campbell Playhouse.")
![Mel-O-Toons : Miguel the Mighty Matador (1960) [Black & White Version]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WmEJ1xHjs6s/mqdefault.jpg "Mel-O-Toons : Miguel the Mighty Matador (1960) [Black & White Version]
Some of the Mel-O-Toons survive today in original color and black and white prints. Some children in the 1960s may have seen these cartoons on a Black and White set years before seeing them in color.")
