Book: On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
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Commercial firms turned out Claghorn shirts and compasses {the needles always pointed south, son}; Delmar cut two Claghorn records, I Love You, That Is and That's a Joke, Son, and Warner Brothers pirated the concept for use in a series of cartoons. The strutting cartoon rooster, Foghorn J. Leghorn, was an obvious steal from Delmar: the cutting irony, he said years later, was that the cartoons were copyrighted, so that, from then on, "in order to do Claghorn, I had to ask permission from Warner Brothers. book-quote
