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Tom and Jerry are why I love opera - and also the reason Carmen remains my favorite ever to this day.
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Wonderful thread. The music, whether it’s classical or contemporary or original Carl Stalling, is essential to any Warner Bros. cartoon. A few years ago I looked up the standard “factory/machine” music and found this.
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Powerhouse is, possibly, the song everybody doesn’t know they know but they do most.
Raymond Scott just doesn’t get the mainstream recognition he deserves for his huge contributions to 20th C music.
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Came here to post the same thing…
“Not happy birthday! Please not happy birthday!”
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it’s staggering how comprehensive this is. also, it made me want to watch all those cartoons in their entirety – having just clips was a bit frustrating, lol
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Seems that between cartoons on Saturday mornings, and the Grateful Dead on Saturday nights, a lot of us got a pretty good grounding in Western musical traditions without even realizing it.
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“I wish my brother George was here”
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“Oh Bwunhiwda, you’we so wovewy…”
“Yes I know it, I can’t help it.”
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