This is a Screen Song short produced by Famous Studios. There will be spoilers ahead:
This is a fairly standard Screen Song, a bit more reliant on puns for the gags, with pretty much all the obvious puns in here, with a few others a bit less obvious. The best gag which isn't pun-dependent is in the opening, when a wave plays stones on the beach like a keyboard. There are corned beef and cabbage jokes, potato jokes, Irish spirits jokes and of course, there's singing and dancing galore.
There's even an Irish band playing a song before the singalong comes up and the band leader actually cues the song for the singalong, which is the song, "McNamara's Band", which was well-known in 1949, but perhaps may be less familiar to people today, which is a shame, because it's a cute and charming song. The animation portion of the cartoon runs a bit longer, as they re-use footage of the marching band between the verses of the song. The "bouncing shamrock" points out the lyrics for the audience.
The verse with "Uncle Yul-ius", the only Swede in McNamara's band, closes out the singalong and it's done well. This short can be found on various DVDs and online and is worth watching at least once.
This is a fairly standard Screen Song, a bit more reliant on puns for the gags, with pretty much all the obvious puns in here, with a few others a bit less obvious. The best gag which isn't pun-dependent is in the opening, when a wave plays stones on the beach like a keyboard. There are corned beef and cabbage jokes, potato jokes, Irish spirits jokes and of course, there's singing and dancing galore.
There's even an Irish band playing a song before the singalong comes up and the band leader actually cues the song for the singalong, which is the song, "McNamara's Band", which was well-known in 1949, but perhaps may be less familiar to people today, which is a shame, because it's a cute and charming song. The animation portion of the cartoon runs a bit longer, as they re-use footage of the marching band between the verses of the song. The "bouncing shamrock" points out the lyrics for the audience.
The verse with "Uncle Yul-ius", the only Swede in McNamara's band, closes out the singalong and it's done well. This short can be found on various DVDs and online and is worth watching at least once.