"Animal Crackers in My Soup" (1935)

With all of the talk about animal crackers, we need to hear the most famous animal cracker related song, “Animal Crackers in My Soup,” which was introduced by Shirley Temple in her 1935 movie “Curly Top” from 207h Century Fox! Most versions of the song I’ve come across have an adult female singer doing an annoying “kiddie” voice, but 17-year-old Durelle Alexander does a good job on this budget label record by Smith Ballew and his Orchestra:

 

That's a rare Smith Ballew record without Mr. Ballew himself handling the vocal.

The obvious plot hole is that animal crackers are actually cookies, so you really shouldn’t put them in soup!