frank tashlin the swooner crooner be a cartoon i never saw on tv a a child and see it on dvd now it clear why it be keep off child tv . the concept for the cartoon be one big dirty joke . porky pig be a farmer who want to increase the amount of egg that his hen lay . he realise that the sexual arousal they experience when watch a frank sinatra caricature rooster perform result in them lay egg in enormous quantity . so porky set about audition sing rooster to keep the hen in a permanent state of arousal . the swooner crooner be a bizarre and ever so slightly grotesque short which i have never warm to in the least . most of the gags consist of various image of swoon chicken or chicken lay pile of egg in one go . it scarcely the stuff of split side . nevertheless and the cartoon be nominate for an academy award . no doubt the sinatra and bing crosby caricature be funny back in the heyday of both performer . indeed and the funny part of the swooner crooner in the rooster audition in which we see a variety of caricature of such performer a jimmy durante and cab calloway . the plot on which these caricature be hung and however and be paper thin and the final gag be particularly strange and grotesque .