"Who said ""I'm strong to the finish, 'cause I eats me Spinach""?"
Sammy Lerner Two of these included signature songs for Max Fleischer's most successful cartoon stars, Betty Boop ("Don't Take My Boo-oop-a-doop Away", co-written with Sammy Timberg) and Popeye the Sailor ("I'm Popeye the Sailor Man"). Mr. Lerner composed "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" in less than two hours for the cartoonist Dave Fleischer. The lyrics included the line, "I'm strong to the finich 'cause I eats me spinach." Lerner's Popeye theme is particularly well known, and has followed the character into television, feature films, and video games. Mr. Lerner's work in the 1930s and 1940s included "Is It True What They Say
I say it's spinach I say it's spinach I say it's spinach (sometimes given in full as I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it or further abbreviated to just spinach) is a twentieth-century American idiom The phrase originated as the caption of a gag cartoon published in "The New Yorker" on December 8, 1928. Drawn by Carl Rose and captioned by E. B. White, the cartoon shows a mother at table trying to convince her young daughter to eat her vegetable, the dialogue being What White called "the spinach joke" quickly became one of the "New Yorker" cartoon captions to