Lady Play Your Mandolin!

Lady Play Your Mandolin! is a 1931 animated cartoon with the first appearance of Foxy.

Overview
The black and white cartoon features the short-lived Mickey Mouse-inspired character Foxy as a gaucho who decides to visit a local saloon. His horse soon finds himself drunk on tequila and begins to hallucinate wildly.

As was typically the case with the early entries in the Merrie Melodies series one purpose of the cartoon was to promote a Warner-owned popular song. The title theme written by Oscar Leveant with lyrics by Irving Caesar was a 1930#5 poop hit sung by Nick Lucas and released by Brunswick Records which had been purchased by Warner Brothers the previous year (Another recording by the Havana Novelty Orchestra was released the same year on RCA's Victor Records). In this short it is sung by a female fox character who would become Foxy's girlfriend Roxy.

The credits animators were Rollin Hamilton and Norm Blackburn (plus uncredited animation by Isodore Freleng Robert Clampett (his first cartoon at WB according to some sources) and Carman Maxwell) with a musical score and direction of the Brunswick Recording Orchestra by Frank Marsales.