The "Big Bad Wolf" and chickens?

[Victor Steinbok]

I don't know, but I'll see what I can find. I was not implying any sort
of antedating on the link I posted--it was just for laughs. (Or, as the
say around here, for "shits and giggles".)

     VS-)

On 3/4/2011 4:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> John, I'm not at all certain that those GB refs. are independent of Disney.
>
> Snippets show that at least some of the dates are wildly wrong.
>
> The "signature" song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" appears to have
> premiered along with the cartoon in the spring of 1933.
>
> Victor, is there an indisputable pre-Disney cite of "the big, bad wolf"?
> The link goes to a 1947 cartoon with "BBW" used by an IMDb reviewer.
>
> JL

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