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3 unusual facts about Winston Sharples


The Porky Pig Show

Since Warner Bros. had closed their cartoon studio the year before, the opening and closing animation and bumpers were produced in New York by animator Hal Seeger, with Winston Sharples composing the title song.

Winston Sharples

Sharples married Daisy Shockley in 1931 and had a son, Winston Sharples Jr., who worked with his father as a music editor and eventually became a musical director himself on The Mighty Hercules.

Later Sharples cues were recycled into episodes of Seeger's Batfink.



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