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'Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat' (ProperGanderSaul)
"Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat" is a 1941 hit boogie-woogie song written by Don Raye. A bawdy, jazzy tune, the song describes a laundry woman from Harlem, New York whose technique is so unusual that people come from all around just to watch her scrub. The Andrews Sisters and Will Bradley & His Orchestra recorded the most successful pop versions of the song, but it is today best recognized as the centerpiece of an eponymous Walter Lantz Studio cartoon from 1941.
The short is awash with what is now considered offensive blackface stereotypes of African-American people and culture, and of life in the rural Southern United States.
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