Pluto's Blue Note is a Pluto cartoon.
Synopsis[]
Pluto wakes up to the sound of two birds singing. He tries to sing along with them but is unsuccessful, because he's tone-deaf. It causes them to fly away annoyed. Pluto also tries to imitate the sound of a bee and cricket, but he annoys them as well, prompting the bee to hide in the flower that it was on and the cricket to jump into a hole. Pluto felt very hurt as nobody wanted to sing along with him.
Then, he hears the sound of a radio beating at a nearby music store and discovers that he can emulate it by pounding his tail on the ground. However, the store proprietor turns it off and takes it inside just as Pluto begins enjoying himself. Seeing it in the back of the store, Pluto attempts to sneak inside to play the radio some more, but at one point, he had to hide when the proprietor comes by. As the proprietor puts an "Out to Lunch" sign on the door, he closes the door behind him and leaves. With the store now left unoccupied, Pluto safely approaches the radio, but when he turns it on, no music plays. He accidentally turns on a record player and discovers that his tail can function like a record player's stylus, to which music comes out of his mouth when his tail is on the spinning record. Pluto then decides to take the record player back to his doghouse to play music with it.
As the record player plays a song, he lip-syncs to the Frank Sinatra-esque singing voice coming from the record player to make it look like he's the one singing. His tactic gets the attention of a group of female dogs (with Fifi and Dinah being among them), as well as the birds, bee, and cricket that he previously annoyed, who are all very impressed by his "singing". Close to the end, his tail comes out the record player, which causes the song to get stuck and prompting him to quickly put his tail back on the record as he finishes the song, causing the female dogs to faint from a happy shock.
Characters[]
- Pluto (voiced by Jimmy MacDonald)
- Fifi (voiced by Pinto Colvig)
- Dinah the Dachshund
- Music Store Proprietor (voiced by Billy Bletcher)
- Singing Radio (voiced by John Woodbury)
- Spike the Bee (voiced by Jimmy MacDonald)
Releases[]
Television[]
- Disneyland, episode #3.11: "At Home with Donald Duck"
- The New Mickey Mouse Club, May 9, 1977
- Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #1
- Good Morning, Mickey, episode #58
- Donald's Quack Attack, episode #29
- The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.12: "The Many Loves of Pluto"
Home video[]
VHS
- Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Cartoon Collections, Volume 2
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Starring Pluto & Fifi
- Pluto's Greatest Hits
Laserdisc
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Starring Donald & Daisy / Starring Pluto & Fifi
- Minnie's Greatest Hits / Pluto's Greatest Hits
DVD
- Walt Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites: Extreme Music Fun
- Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume 2
Trivia[]
- The song "You Belong To My Heart" which Pluto sings at the end was originally written and used in The Three Caballeros. John Woodbury provided Pluto's singing voice for this song.
- Also from the same film, the song that plays on the radio out in front of the music store is "Mexico".
- This cartoon marks the first (and to date, only) time where both of Pluto's love interests Fifi the Peke and Dinah the Dachshund are seen together, and is also Fifi's final appearance in animation until the Mickey Mouse episode "You, Me and Fifi" came out in 2019.
- Both Fifi the Peke and Dinah the Dachshund usually use the same dark brown fur in their respective cartoons, so a different coloring was given to Dinah here to indicate which one is whom; in this case she had a lighter brown fur color just like in the Pluto cartoon In Dutch.
- When Pluto first puts his tail on a record, the music that plays is "Caxangá", a traditional Brazilian song heard during the Carnaval scene in Saludos Amigos.
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