Today's Video Link

This is almost a real Looney Tunes, sans animation.  It's one of the kids' records that Mel Blanc recorded for Capitol Records, in this case with Arthur Q. Bryan playing Elmer Fudd.  The script was by Warren Foster and Tedd Pierce, who were concurrently writing the cartoons, and the graphics you'll see were done by Robert McKimson and Richard Thomas, who were directing and designing cartoons, respectively.  A lot of the artwork for these was supervised by the folks over at Western Publishing, the firm that was then doing the Dell comic books of Bugs and his friends, and the music was by the great Billy May, who was also arranging for the likes of Sinatra around this time.  Take a look.  You don't even have to turn the pages…