D. J. David B. Spins Comics-Tunes: Little Annie Fanny
Arf! A follow-up to last week’s Little Orphan Annie radio show theme is - believe it or not - a song about Little Annie Fanny. Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder’s adults-only comic strip is sort of a female version of their own Goodman Beaver (which in turn is an update of Candide) by way of spoofing Harold Gray’s seminal comic strip Little Orphan Annie. The song is about the Playboy Magazine heroine but is itself a spoof of “Alley Oop,” a hit song about a completely different comic strip character. Are you following this?
The Kingsmen, who made history by singing what sounded like dirty lyrics to “Louie Louie” (they weren’t really dirty, just sloppy) perform this squeaky-clean song about a sexy comic strip character. Go figure!
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— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
Amazing D. J. David B.! I KNEW you were going to share unusual stuff from your collection for this every Tuesday fascinating romp into comics oriented songs. But, I NEVER would have guessed that there was a song out there about Little Annie Fanny! Mad wicked! Or should I say “Playboy wicked”?!
Sorry, there’s no song about Wicked Wanda. I checked.
[...] [Multimedia] Did you know that Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder’s Little Annie Fanny had a theme song… performed by the Kingsmen? [...]
Kurtzman was a genius. Everyone forgets that he created the Sat. morning version of King Kong from the 60s. Maybe you could share the King Kong theme next.
I didn’t forget that. I never knew it! I wonder if I have the cartoon Kong in my collection? I’ll have to check my archives. Meanwhile, lots of rare and wonderful comics tunes scheduled for the Tuesdays ahead.
Whaaa’?!? what’s this King Lurtzman Kong thing , i NEVER heard of that!
Yeah, well…I hate to be contumacious, goodness knows, but hey, this song is called ‘Annie Fanny’, but it’s obviously about Little Orphan Annie…the ‘blunked out’ eyes, as they were called in POGO, the dog Sandy, Daddy Warbucks…all in the original Harold Gray strip, not in the Kurtzman/Elder one. Annie Fanny has huge bright ones. Eyes, I mean.