"My name is Daffy Duck
People say I'm loon-ey
I'm like an old piano
A little out of tune-ey ... "
Surely somebody besides me has heard and seen Daffy sing this, followed by duck hoots and nutty howls that must have put Mel Blanc in bed for a week.
Yet nowhere in the sprawling web hive mind-space can I find a clip of what was easily Daffy's most adorable intro.
Lesser Warner Brothers characters are all over YouTube, yet my duck only gets a couple of clips from various TV incarnations.
Daffy has been around since 1938.
His original theater cartoons were epic.
He deserves more.
My four-line Daffy Duck mantra must be a later version of the above clip--where he sings all of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down--which became half of the opening of every WB cartoon that rocked your world.
Some nights I sing "My name is Daffy Duck" in lieu of prayer. I too am out of tune-y.
See how I spend my Wednesday afternoons?
Weird.
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