ADD: Popeye the Sailor Man (Sammy Lerner)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Popeye The Sailor Man
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 07 May 17 - 04:34 AM

Talking about tempo of the song this could vary on the cartoon itself and in our versions. When Popeye was singing the verse it went at a steady pace and would even slow down to deliver the last few lines at the end of the cartoon, with the toot toot on his pipe. However the tune was also played very fast and in a staccato way when the exciting action was taking place, and it was at this pace that we often sang the parodies.

Remember Bluto's and Olive's version of the bawdy song 'Abraham Brown', 'Barnacle Bill the Sailor'? What a pair of voices! Oh, and Olive's 'I want a clean shaven man'. Bluto and Popeye scrapping to get a decent shave because of Olive's song and at the end she walks away with a naval officer with a big bushy beard. Those were the days! Wimpy, Swee'pea, the Goonies, Abu Hassan.....

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Popeye The Sailor Man
From: banjoman
Date: 07 May 17 - 06:30 AM

I'm Popeye the sailor man
I come from the Isle of Man
I bought a piana(o)
for one & a tanner
I'm Popeye the sailor man

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Popeye The Sailor Man
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 May 17 - 01:36 PM

My husband says Popeye was broadcast in Ivory Coast many, many years ago, dubbed in French. 'Popeye Le Matelot'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Popeye The Sailor Man
From: meself
Date: 07 May 17 - 02:10 PM

"on a screen about one foot square"

We had a TV like that - even smaller, probably - till after I'd grown up and left home. It was bought in the '50s - they made'm to last, then. Anyway, one of the local children, from a bit of a rough home, was quoted as telling his parents that our TV was "so goddamn small, you have to have to stand in a line and take turns watching it!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Popeye The Sailor Man
From: Senoufou
Date: 08 May 17 - 10:04 AM

I've been looking this up, and according to Wikipedia, the first animated Popeye cartoons were created in 1933!!

I suppose his little song was to encourage children to eat up their spinach. However we always loved our spinach anyway, and never minded eating it. It didn't make us as strong as Popeye though.

Subject: ADD: Sindbad the Sailor (from Popeye)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 May 17 - 12:48 AM

SINDBAD THE SAILOR
[From the cartoon film "Popeye The Sailor Meets Sindbad The Sailor" (1936)]
(Sammy Timberg / Bob Rothberg / Sammy Lerner)


Jack Mercer as Popeye & Gus Wickie as Sindbad - 1936




SINDBAD:
I'm Sindbad the Sailor, so hearty and hale
I live on an island on the back of a whale
It's a whale of an island, that's not a bad joke
Its lord and its master is this handsome bloke

Who's the most remarkable extraordinary fellow?
Sindbad the Sailor!

I scare all creation on land or on sea
But talk about women, they all fall for me
I take my adventures wherever they're found
I don't wanta brag, folks, but I've been around

Who's the most phenomenal extra-special kind of fellow?
Sindbad the Sailor!

From the Valley of Serpents these diamonds I took
I cleaned out those serpents with one dirty look!

Now look at this monster, so strong and so huge
He'd frighten King Kong, but he's only my stooge
The capture of Boola for me was just fun
Whoever said two heads were better than one, hah-hah

Who's the most phenomenal extraordinary fellow?
(Youse! Sindbads the Sailor!)

On one of my travels, I ran into this
Now there was a thrill I'd be sorry to miss
He spread out his wings, and the sunlight grew dim
He took me in his feet, but I ran off with him

Who's the most remarkable extraordinary fellow?
Sindbad the Sailor!

Who's the most phenomenal extra-special kind of fellow?
Sindbad the Sailor!

I'm afraid of nobody under the sun
All I say is "Boo!" and my enemies run!

Who's the most remarkable extraordinary fellow?
POPEYE: It's Popeye the sailor man!
SINDBAD: Who?

POPEYE:
Popeye the sailor man
I'm strong to the finich
'Cause I eats me spinach
I'm Popeye the sailor man

I'm one tough gazookas
Which hates all palookas
What ain't on the up and square
I biffs and I boffs 'em
And always outroughs 'em
But none of 'em gets nowhere

If anyone dasses to risk me fisks
It's 'Bop!' and it's 'Wham!', understand?
So keep good behav'our
That's your one lifesaver
With Popeye the sailor man

I'm Popeye the sailor man
Popeye the sailor man
I'm strong to the finich
'Cause I eats me spinach
I'm Popeye the swag whaler man!

Who's the most remarkable extraordinary fellah?
(You, Popeye the Sailor!)



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2014)


http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/s/sinbadthesailor.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQiAlSQyeLU