![]() ![]() ![]() Dog ( Barnyard Dawg) in The EGGcited Rooster (1952). The final theatrical film in which Foghorn sings "Camptown" is Mother Was a Rooster (1962).įoghorn Leghorn and George P. "Camptown Races" essentially became Foghorn's signature tune and one of the most widely familiar uses of the song in popular culture. ![]() On occasion, he would also sing his own lyrics if they were related to what he was doing at the time. But this proves to be Foghorn's worst trait, as his loud and fast mouth and propensity for over-explanation eventually annoys his intended subjects so much that, completely fed up with him, they end up hitting him over the head with a blunt object, yelling "Ahhhhh, SHADDAP!" and leaving in a huff.īeginning with the 1949 cartoon Henhouse Henery, Foghorn would perform a verse from the Stephen Foster song " Camptown Races", softly humming the lyrics while loudly singing the refrain "Doo-Dahh! Doo-Dahh!", and ending the verse, again loudly, with "Ohh, Doo-Dahh Day!" He often hummed the song more than once in a given short, though in the 1950 cartoon The Leghorn Blows at Midnight, he hummed "Camptown" only at the beginning, but then hummed " Old MacDonald" in two later scenes. According to A Broken Leghorn and Raw! Raw! Rooster! Foghorn lives on "Old MacDonald's Farm" in "Cocamunga" California and had attended "Chicken Tech" University his college roommate and rival Rhode Island Red is a practical joker and even more obnoxious than Foghorn himself.įoghorn often fancied himself a mentor figure to the smaller and younger characters he encountered, particularly Henery Hawk, tossing off bits of self-styled sagacity interjected with phrases like "Pay attention, son", or "Look at me when I'm talkin' to ya, boy", both of which borrowed heavily from Senator Claghorn's vernacular. Aside from the Senator Claghorn reference, his first name " Foghorn" is indicative of his loudmouthed personality, while his surname " Leghorn" refers to a particular Italian breed of chicken. He has a bombastic and somewhat unrefined personality, and shows a penchant for mischief. Physically, Foghorn Leghorn is depicted as a very large rooster with a non-rhotic Southern accent he is easily the tallest of all the regular Looney Tunes characters. The accent has similarities to that of another Mel Blanc voice: Yosemite Sam (a strictly Friz Freleng character) and even more similar to a proto-Sam character in Stage Door Cartoon.īiography, characteristics and personality Īccording to Keith Scott, the character's voice was also patterned after a hard-of-hearing West Coast-only radio character from the 1930s, known simply as The Sheriff, on a radio program called Blue Monday Jamboree. ![]() Foghorn adopted many of Claghorn's catchphrases, such as "I say." and "That's a joke, son!" Delmar's inspiration for Claghorn was a Texas rancher who was fond of saying this. Foghorn's voice was created and originally performed by Mel Blanc and was later performed by Jeff Bergman, Joe Alaskey, Greg Burson, Frank Gorshin, Jeff Bennett, Bill Farmer, and Eric Bauza.įoghorn Leghorn was directly inspired by the character of Senator Claghorn, a blustery Southern politician played by Kenny Delmar on Fred Allen's popular 1940s radio show. įoghorn Leghorn's first appearance was in the 1946 Henery Hawk short Walky Talky Hawky. All 29 of these cartoons were directed by McKimson. He was created by Robert McKimson, and starred in 29 cartoons from 1946 to 1964 in the golden age of American animation. Foghorn Leghorn is a cartoon rooster who appears in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and films from Warner Bros. ![]()
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