<P> Woody's wild days were numbered, however . In 1946, Lantz hired Disney veteran Dick Lundy to direct Woody's cartoons . Lundy rejected Culhane's take on the series and made Woody more defensive; no longer did the bird go insane without a legitimate reason . Lundy also paid more attention to the animation, making Woody's new films more Disney-esque in their design, style, animation, and timing . Lundy's last film for Disney was the Donald Duck short Flying Jalopy . This cartoon is played much like a Woody Woodpecker short, down to the laugh in the end . It also features a bad guy named "Ben Buzzard" who bears a strong resemblance to Buzz Buzzard, a Lantz character introduced in Wet Blanket Policy (1948), who eventually succeeded Wally Walrus as Woody's primary antagonist . </P> <P> In 1947, contract renewal negotiations between Lantz and Universal (now Universal - International) fell through, and Lantz began distributing his cartoons through United Artists . The UA - distributed Lantz cartoons featured higher - quality animation, the influence of Dick Lundy (the films' budgets remained the same). Former Disney animators such as Fred Moore and Ed Love began working at Lantz, and assisted Lundy in adding touches of the Disney style to Woody's cartoons . Despite the Disney style added for the later cartoons, Woody's cartoons still try to maintain a good dose of slapstick and madcap humor from the pre-Lundy cartoons . </P> <P> In 1947, Woody got his own theme song when musicians George Tibbles and Ramey Idriss wrote "The Woody Woodpecker Song", making ample use of the character's famous laugh . Kay Kyser's 1948 recording of the song, with Harry Babbitt's laugh interrupting vocalist Gloria Wood, became one of the biggest hit singles of 1948 . Other artists did covers, including Woody's original voice actor, Mel Blanc . Lantz first used "The Woody Woodpecker Song" in Wet Blanket Policy (1948), and it became the first and only song from an animated short subject to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song . Lantz soon adopted the song as Woody's theme music, and due to the song's popularity, Woody Woodpecker fan clubs sprang up, theaters held "Woody" matinées, and boys got the "Woody Woodpecker" haircut . </P> <P> "The Woody Woodpecker Song" and the Woody Woodpecker cartoons made extensive use of Woody's famous laugh, upsetting the man who created it, Mel Blanc . (He first used the laugh, in a different recording, for the seminal pre-Bugs Bunny character in Porky's Hare Hunt (1938).) Although Blanc had only recorded three shorts as the voice of Woody, his laugh had been recorded as a stock sound effect and used in every subsequent Woody Woodpecker short up until this point . Blanc sued Lantz and lost, but Lantz settled out of court when Blanc filed an appeal . Although Lantz stopped using Blanc's Woody Woodpecker laugh as a stock effect in the early 1950s, Blanc's voice was still heard saying "Guess who?" at the beginning of every cartoon for the duration of the Woody Woodpecker series . </P>

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