Looney Tunes Anniversary

Subject: RE: Looney Tunes Anniversary
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 06:45 PM

Thank you, Kat, I was feeling kinda guilty of its placement...but you and Joe have made an honest poster of me.

BTW, for some reason I thought that Raymond Scott (of Your Hit Parade fame) had a connection with one of those songs...maybe he just had a record of "Merry-Go-Round". That Eddie Cantor?

Subject: RE: Looney Tunes Anniversary
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 04:14 PM

Here's the original(?) intro for it: on youtube with an orchestral overture.

On another site which talks about Hungarian Rhapsody being used in various cartoons, there was this, also:

Although this 1847 composition is widely used in Warner Brothers cartoons, it is not the Looney Tunes theme or the Merrie Melodies theme. The Looney Tunes theme is "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," written in 1937 by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin. The Merrie Melodies theme is "Merrily We Roll Along," written in 1935 by Eddie Cantor, Murray Mencher and Charles Tobias.

There, this thread is even more musical, now.:-)

Subject: RE: Looney Tunes Anniversary
From: Amos
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 01:28 PM

A noteworthy anniversary, so to speak, especially conisdering that the nation has pretty much been Loony Tunes ever since! :D


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Subject: RE: Looney Tunes Anniversary
From: PoppaGator
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 12:49 PM

I think there was much more early jazz on those cartoon soundtracks than classical music. Disney's Fantasia was an exception to the rule, not the rule.

My favorite radio station, WWOZ in New Orleans, plays a lot of jazz from all periods of history. Most weekdays, the mid-morning hours are devoted to some of the earliest recorded jazz, and a lot of that music is very reminiscent of the older cartoons I watched on black-and-white TV as a child in the 1950s.

It often very difficult for me to listen without picturing barn animals running away from Farmer Brown, or a nightclub full of little black mice with big white eyes dancing the night away.

Subject: RE: Looney Tunes Anniversary
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 12:34 PM

Well, John, we'll see how long it stays in the music section. I think there is a music connection, though. Wikipedia says that Warner Brothers produced the Looney Tunes animated series from 1930 until 1969, when it was replaced by Merrie Melodies. Looney Tunes was obviously meant to compete with Disney's Silly Symphonies.
I know that I heard a lot of classical music on cartoons when I was growing up, but did any of these three series make extensive use of classical music?

-Joe-

Subject: Looney Tunes Anniversary
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 11:57 AM

Today is the 59th anniversary of the first Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon appearance-"the Fast and the Furry-ous."

I placed this in the music section...after all, it is a Looney Tune.