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Big or small, short or tall, you will all have a ball, it's the Tom & Jerry show! Wait, actually it isn't. It's Barry Manilow!
I remember being 9 years old and riding around in my parents' dilapidated Plymouth Horizon. Many Saturdays in that era were essentially wasted on a pointless endeavor. It wasn't nearly as grueling as school or church, but there were things I'd rather be doing, like flicking Stay Alive marbles at antique lamps or trying to blow bubbles with glow-in-the-dark Silly Putty. We usually had good choices for lunch though.
On one of those Saturdays, we drove up to the north side of Cincinnati where there was a family restaurant in which the eating area overlooked a huge stage where a man played an organ. It was when we were riding around near there that Barry Manilow's latest hit came blasting through the AM radio in the Horizon.
I immediately noticed something interesting about this new release. It sounded exactly like the theme music for some 1970s Tom & Jerry shorts!
Listen to Barry's hit in the clip above. Fast-forward to about 6 seconds in.
Now peep the Tom & Jerry theme. Jump to about 27 seconds in...
If our society was as litigious in 1983 as it is now, copyright lawyers would have had a field day!
And what about those '70s Tom & Jerry cartoons? I think most fans of the cat-and-mouse duo would rather forget those shorts existed. These were the ones where Jerry wore a red bowtie, and he and Tom were actually friends. My 4th grade classmates didn't seem too interested in those episodes.
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