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===Recordings=== Cantor began making [[phonograph record]]s in 1917, recording both comedy songs and routines and popular songs of the day, first for [[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor]], then for [[Aeoleon-Vocalion]], [[Pathé Records|Pathé]], and [[Emerson Records|Emerson]]. From 1921 through 1925, he had an exclusive contract with [[Columbia Records]], returning to Victor for the remainder of the decade. <table> {{Audio sample | type = song | header = A 1922 recording by Cantor | file = Sophie (1922 Recording, Eddie Cantor).mp3 | description = Sophie, from [[Make It Snappy]], recorded in 1922 }} </table> Cantor was one of the era's most successful entertainers, but the [[1929 stock market crash]] took away his multimillionaire status and left him deeply in debt. However, Cantor's relentless attention to his own earnings to avoid the poverty he knew growing up caused him to use his writing talent, quickly building a new bank account with his highly popular, bestselling books of humor and cartoons about his experience, ''Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street''<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/381325 "'Caught short! A saga of wailing Wall street', OCLC Number: 381325"] worldcat.org, accessed September 5, 2011.</ref> in 1929 "A.C." (After Crash), and ''Yoo-Hoo, Prosperity!'' Cantor was also a composer, with his most famous song seldom attributed to him. In 1935, along with Charles Tobias (Ida's brother) and Murray Mencher, Cantor wrote "Merrily We Roll Along". It was adapted as the theme song for the ''Merrie Melodies'' series of animated cartoons, distributed by [[Warner Brothers Pictures]] between 1936 and 1964. Cantor himself was frequently caricatured in Warner cartoons of the period, (see Film and television: Animation).<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Merrie Melodies Theme: "Merrily We Roll Along" {{!}}|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-merrie-melodies-theme-merrily-we-roll-along/|access-date=2021-06-02|website=cartoonresearch.com}}</ref>
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