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Hey, let's sing along with Popeye! This is a little short that the Max Fleischer studio cobbled together in 1934 when the squinty sailor and his theme song were getting popular. It uses animation that was done for Popeye's first short (entitled just Popeye the Sailor and produced the year before) and the voice is by Popeye's first voice, William Costello.

Some sources say that the one line where Popeye says "Sing along with me, everybody" was done by Jack Mercer, who took over the job of voicing the spinach-eater after Costello departed…and it does sound more like Mercer than Costello. The trouble with that deduction is that every single source says that Mercer didn't replace Costello until 1935. So if any of this matters to you, you'll have to figure it out for yourself…

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