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Do you mean Red Hot Riding Hood? I sure have!!!
The song is a take on "Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, oh!" it sure is catchy!

I can't talk about old time radio without talking of my beloved Cinnamon Bear. Paddy O'Cinnamon is the best friend you can ever have. He's an Irish bear who's only 4 inches high. And is he fee-rocious! Check him out. If you do, believe me, he'll be much obliged to you!

Who doesn't love Mr. Rogers? Did you know that you can watch his first week wayyy back when on YouTube? I love it. I still feel like he is talking just to me!
[Edit: video deleted, unable to locate replacement]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDZ0b72tujg

Tex Avery was first introduced to me on Cartoon Network. His cartoons were shown late at night, and has to be one of the first things to make me realize I lived the old style of music. Unfortunately the full cartoon is no longer on YouTube, but here is a clip of Swing Shift Cinderella: https://www.y...

Thanks for sharing, Norma! I had never seen that one. I think that main elf was Mae Questel who also voiced Betty Boop.

This is a Western short that was produced by Kalem. It has lots of action, but I had to watch this with Dutch inter-titles. Gene Gauntier has very little screen time as the girl whose horse is stolen by thief that happens to be an indian. The indian chief’s daughter, Ivy, is a very eligible bachelor...

A Lad from Old Ireland boasts to be the first film made on two continents – Ireland and America. The interest stops there, though, I am sorry to say. The copy I was able to see had German inter-titles, and they went by so fast that I couldn’t even pause the video to look them up on Google Translate....

I’m not a fan of civil war stories usually, so I went in not expecting much. Gene Gauntier played a girl spy in several shorts for Kalem, so by the time that The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg was released, the audience already knew about this character. The only thing I found interesting in this story w...

This is another D.W. Griffith Biograph short. This 13 minute short very much surprised me. I didn’t know the story of Ten Nights in a Barroom, on which this story is loosely based, so I was impressed by the story. I was especially impressed with the little girl, Gladys Egan’s acting. A working man w...

I watched this nice D.W. Griffith film because Gene Gauntier was sited to be in it. She is billed on IMDB as ‘A Partygoer’. There were a few partygoers, and because of the cinematography style and the fact that this 10 minute short is over 100 years old, it is hard to tell which one she is. Nonethel...