Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom

Episode aired Mar 27, 1959
Unrated
1h

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7.8/10

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Features Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953). A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.Features Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953). A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.Features Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953). A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

YOUR RATING

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Walt Disney

Self - Host

Bill Thompson

Professor Owl
(voice)
(as Wm. H. Thompson)

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Trivia
Scenes from this episode were re-used in Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Heigh-Ho, and Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Fun with Music.

Quotes
Himself - Host: The lyrics of the song you just heard being recorded bring to mind a very intriguing idea. Just where did all these wonderful musical instruments come from in the first place? It's an actual fact that each and every one of them owes its origin to one of four basic sounds; either a toot...
[blows on a slide trombone]
Himself - Host: or a whistle...
[toots on a clarinet]
Himself - Host: or a plunk...
[plucks a harp string]
Himself - Host: or a boom.
[strikes a tympani drum]
Himself - Host: Now, I want you to meet a wise, old bird; a certain Professor Owl, who is an authority on music. I'm going to call on him to take over this program and tell you all about where the music comes from.
[blows a reveille on a bugle, and Professor Owl flies into the scene]