Episode 18: "Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat"




BMA: Black Media Archive show

Summary: "Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat" (1941) is a 1940 hit boogie-woogie song and best recognized as the centerpiece of this Walter Lantz Studio cartoon from 1941. A risqué, 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.