Richards Favorite Videos

1951 Goofy No Smoking Cartoon. back when Goofy was funny.

For some reason I liked this song even though I wasn’t a big fan of the movie. I thought I was real slick for bringing in my voice recorder into the movie theater and playing back this song and other parts of the movie on it.

Here’s the whole opening sequence in it’s entirety.
Actually, I’ve been informed that this is just one version of the full opener. There are other versions that include segments with Scrooge ordering a paintbrush to fix the color of his hat after it’s accidentally colored pink, A paint brush coloring Gadget’s hair orange, and Cubbi gummi swinging through the screen Tarzan style. Here it is:

Walt Disney’s The Rescuers’ “Rescue Aid Society”.

LYRICS:
R-E-S-C-U-E
Rescue Aid Society
Heads held high
Touch the sky
You mean everything to me

In a fix, in a bind
Call on us anytime
We’ll appear from nowhere
Mighty are we

R-E-S-C-U-E
Rescue Aid Society
Honesty, loyalty
We pledge to thee

R-E-S-C-U-E
Rescue Aid Society
Heads held high
Touch the sky
You mean everything to me

In a jam, in a scrape
And you think ‘no escape’
Do not fear, we’ll be here
Courageous are we

R-E-S-C-U-E
Rescue Aid Society
Heads held high
Touch the sky
Our hearts we pledge to thee

A wonderful token villain song of greedy, capitalism, and general plundering of natures recourses in disregard for anyone or anything but your own self gain. Its meant as a precautionary “look how bad they are” tale, but I of course love it for the bad reasons. The song also serves as a “just in case you forgot” moment that the entire movie is propaganda to remind us that Natives = good and noble, Whites = bad and greedy.

Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame: Quasimodo attends the Feast of Fools.