Billing himself as "Owl Jolson" (a reference to Al Jolson), he performs and his parents, worried sick about him (his father now regrets throwing him out) hear him over the radio. While wandering, he encounters a radio amateur contest (clearly a takeoff of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour), hosted by "Jack Bunny" (a pun on Jack Benny and later used in Goofy Groceries, voiced by Tedd Pierce). The owlet's disciplinarian violinist father, Professor Fritz Owl (voiced by Billy Bletcher), kicks him out of the family's home after catching him singing jazz instead of " Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" to the pump organ accompaniment of his mother (voiced by Martha Wentworth). The plot is a tribute to Al Jolson's film The Jazz Singer. ![]() I Love to Singa depicts the story of an owlet (singing voice of Jackie Morrow, speaking voice of Tommy Bond) who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German-accented parents wish him to perform. A still from the concluding scene of the cartoon
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