Disney singing cowboys

Merlin Haas mvhaas at elpaso.net
Sat Dec 30 12:57:19 CET 2000


Armando Botto wrote:

> It's worth noticing that also Bill Walsh & Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse
> daily strip probably used the same source of inspiration. In the continuity
> "Mickey Mouse and Dry Gulch Goofy" (March to June 1951) Goofy performs as a
> singing (moanin' ;-)) cowboy.
> And Goofy had been a singin' cowboy ("Goofy the Kid") also in the 1946 short
> continuity "Goofy the Crooner"... probably Bill Walsh found that Western
> music genre very amusing ;-)

    Goofy also had a scene as a singing cowboy in the 30s (40s?) Mickey
Mouse daily story "The Bar None Ranch," which was redrawn by Paul Murry
for Walt Disney Comics and Stories around 1959. 

best -- Merlin Haas




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