In 1993, Deutsche Grammaphon issued a budget-priced CD titled Mad About Cartoons which features performances of several popular classical pieces that were used in cartoons, ranging from Bugs Bunny to Fantasia to Ren & Stimpy. The Microscopic Sextet has been described as "Lawrence Welk on acid",playing "surrealistic swing". The Beau Hunks have done at least three Raymond Scott albums,including one with big band charts performed by the Metropole Jazz Orchestra.Īnd along with another vote for the Don Byron album(BUG MUSIC),I highly recommend the Microscopic Septet,an avant-garde jazz group that disbanded over 10 years ago,but-hooray!-their four albums and extra goodies are being released on two double CD sets this fall from Cuneiform Reocords and the group will be doing a short Euopean and northeast US reunion tour to follow up. While no where near the genius of Stalling,they do OK. Milan put out a CD of scores from six Tex Avery-MGM era scores,music composed by Scott Bradley. Collages of singing("I Love To Singa'"),intros ,outros,interludes-not the first place to go for this music,but a satisfying package for the collector. but it contains six complete soundtracks,including "Three Little Bops" with that great West Coast jazz score and Stan Freberg. With the DVD boxes available,between the price and the contents,some of this stuff is available elsewhere. THAT'S ALL FOLKS:CARTOON SONGS FROM MERRIE MELODIES & LOONEY TUNES is a two disc deluxe package that came out in 2001. Though not as ingenious as Vol.I,there is a second volume of the Carl Stalling Project that includes a 10 second anvil drop which I have used on repeat mode to get back at noisy neighbors. Sorry, but I do not know which track on these CDs contains "Morning Mood". The Amazon listings for the two "Project" CDs give Stalling sole writing credit for all the music (which is incorrect) and only lists the music titles after the cartoons and does not give the actual music titles. Stalling adapted a lot of classical and traditional folk and popular music for the Warner Brothers cartoons. Here are three Looney Tunes CDs, including the two "Carl Stalling Project" discs. Here's a listing where you can listen to a sample to make sure this is the music for which you are searching. It can readily be found on many Greig classical CDs. It is one of the most popular classical tunes and was used often in the Bugs Bunny/ Looney Tunes cartoons. The most iconic characters haven't changed much, but many more have made their debuts over the years.Click to expand.I believe that the piece of music you are referring to is "Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Morning Mood" by Edvard Greig (the Norwegian classical - Romantic- composer). "Looney Tunes" has managed to stay relevant to multiple generations of children. In the early 90s, on the small screen, spin-offs like "Tiny Toon Avdentures" and "Animaniacs" brought another generation of children into the "Looney Tunes" universe. In the late 1980s, Warner Brothers started to release "Looney Tunes" shorts before films, once again. As children, baby boomers could watch the cartoons from the comfort of their living rooms, although the versions they saw were sanitized of some of the more violent, racially-charged and adult behavior that the original cartoons included. From the 1930s to the 1950s, if you wanted to see a "Looney Tunes" or "Merrie Melodies" short, you'd have to wait to see them in the theater, when they'd play before a feature film.Īll that changed in the 1950s when they started to appear on television.
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