Hooray for Captain Spaulding

"Hooray for Captain Spaulding"
Song
Composer(s)	Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby

"Hooray for Captain Spaulding" is a song, originally from the 1928 Marx Brothers stage musical Animal Crackers and the 1930 film version. It later became well known as the theme song for the Groucho Marx television show You Bet Your Life (1950–1961), and became Groucho's signature tune and was often played when he was introduced on various talk shows and the like.

The dialogue prior to the song and the lyrics of the song itself can be found here:

The Marx Brothers

Family members

Associates

Films

with Chico, Harpo Groucho, Zeppo	Humor Risk (1921) The Cocoanuts (1929) Animal Crackers (1930) The House That Shadows Built (1931) Monkey Business (1931) Horse Feathers (1932) Duck Soup (1933)

with Chico, Harpo Groucho	A Night at the Opera (1935) Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937 – unproduced) A Day at the Races (1937) Room Service (1938) At the Circus (1939) Go West (1940) The Big Store (1941) A Night in Casablanca (1946) Love Happy (1949) The Story of Mankind (1957)

Musicals

I'll Say She Is (1924)
The Cocoanuts (1925)
Animal Crackers (1928)

Other appearances

Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel (radio, 1932 - episodes)
Blue Ribbon Town (radio, 1943-44)
You Bet Your Life (radio and TV)
"The Incredible Jewel Robbery" (TV, 1959)
Deputy Seraph (TV, 1959)

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