D. J. David B. Spins Comics-Tunes: Barney Bear Is In The House
What am I, a magician? I can’t make things just appear out of the air! I’m a human being, dammit! I have limitations like everyone else. (Possibly more than anyone else.)
Why am I mad? You’d be mad too if you wanted to celebrate the new book, The Cark Barks Big Book of Barney Bear (from Yoe Books, our gracious hosts here at the I.T.C.H. blog) and you couldn’t find a single song about Barney Bear!
The book is great, by the way. If you’re not hip to this material, allow me to en-hippen you. Carl Barks is legendary for his work on Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge. But that’s not all he did! In addition to his Disney work, “The Good Duck Artist” was working for the competition at MGM, drawing Barney Bear comics. (Technically, they were both published by Dell so it wasn’t that big a deal.)
The stories about Barney Bear and Benny Burro are arguably as funny and well-crafted as his duck books, but not nearly as well-known. That’s why Craig Yoe has collected them in full-color in this luscious deluxe volume. (I’m pronouncing that “de-looks” and I hope you are too.) It’s available now from Amazon for a paltry $19.01. (Or, you can buy the old black & white book for $79. Your choice.)
Anyway, back to the music.
Since I couldn’t turn up a Barney Bear song, I did the next best thing. I have one Barney Google song, and one Yogi Bear song. Put them together and what have you got? Yogi Google! Or, in this case, Barney Bear.
Click the links below to enjoy!
Barney Google - Americans In Britain
— DJ David B.
