Has anyone ever heard the theme song with different lyrics; It started with "all the birds in the treetops". I looked on youtube and have searched the web for months and haven't found anything. We are hoping that a die hard stooge fan has any info on the song?
Assuming you're not referring to the Three Blind Mice theme song, that one is called "Listen To The Mockingbird". I've never heard it used with lyrics in a Three Stooges Short. It's in one of my fake books (a fake book is a songbook musicians use that just has the melody line in musical notation with the chords written in above - so the musician can "fake" it if he/she doesn't already know the song). The composer is Alice Hawthorne and the lyrics are as follows:
I'm dreaming now of Hally,
Sweet Hally, sweet Hally,
I'm dreaming now of Hally,
For the thought of her is one that never dies;
She's sleeping in the valley,
In the valley, in the valley,
She's sleeping in the valley,
And the mockingbird is singing where she lies.
Listen to the mockingbird,
Listen to the mockingbird,
The mockingbird still singing o'er her grave;
Listen to the mockingbird,
Listen to the mockingbird,
Still singing where the weeping willows wave.
Ah! well I yet remember,
Remember, remember,
Ah! well, I yet remember,
When we gather'd in the cotton, side by side;
'Twas in the mild September,
September, September,
'Twas in the mild September,
And the mockingbird is singing where she lies.
Listen to the mockingbird,
Listen to the mockingbird,
The mockingbird still singing o'er her grave;
Listen to the mockingbird,
Listen to the mockingbird,
Still singing where the weeping willows wave.
In the theme song from Three Stooges shorts of the 30s, only the verse melody (I'm dreaming now of Hally) was used; the chorus (Listen to the mockingbird, listen to the mockingbird) was not included.
Speaking of trivia, does anyone know when the shorts started using Three Blind Mice instead of Listen to the Mockingbird? I know there were a few other theme songs that were only used once, but I mean as a regular, recurring theme song. While watching the new Sony sets (in the original order of their release), I thought I noticed Three Blind Mice being used for the first time in Flat Foot Stooges, but then I heard Listen to the Mockingbird being used a time or two after that before Three Blind Mice became a permanent fixture. I'll try to pay a little more attention next time I watch these sets.
