Bugs Bunny: Woo Woo, the Hare-Um-Scare-Um Song (1939)

While Fred Tex Avery is rightfully credited as the true creator of Bugs Bunny, a prototype by another director was the source of his name. Ben Bugs Hardaway saw what Tex Avery and Bob Clampett had done with the creation of Daffy Duck, and decided to put a rabbit suit on that duck. Voice actor Mel Blanc referred to the resulting character as Happy Rabbit, and lent him a voice with a laugh that became that of Woody Woodpecker at the Walter Lantz studio soon after. It would be Averys redesign and refining of this character in a Wild Hare (1940) that defined and popularized Bugs Bunny as we know him. This song from Hardaways 1939 Hare-Um-Scare-Um is known as Woo Woo!, and may well have been an original tune by composer Carl Stalling.