 Oogie Boogie is inspired by Cab Calloway (qv), who provided  character voices and musical numbers for several Fleischer Bros.  cartoons; he and Santas Claus quote dialog from the Betty Boop short  "The Old Man of the Mountain", when Santa asks,(quoting Bettys  line) "What are you going to do now?", and Oogie returns  Calloways(as the Old Man) "Goin do the best I can...”