Steve Carras
04-01-2004, 12:38 AM
Edited on March 18,2006.Re-Edited on May 16,2009.
As most of us know, because of a 1958 music strike (AFM-American Federation of Musicians-that's their head J.C.Petrillo who Bugs Bunny's referencing in the 1950 short HURDY GURDY HARE - "I sure hope PETRILLO doesn't hear about THIS!!"), six Warner Bros., cartoons used canned music credited to producer-composer John Seely.
These stock-library tracks, of course, were used by Hanna-Barbera (RUFF AND REDDY, and the entire HUCK nd QUICK DRAW franchise), and JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE ELSE on TV!!! (The better to get a cheaper budget..the point of the WB cartoons using it)...
It was partly created and entirely controlled by the Capitol Records (yes, that Capitol records where The Beatles,Letterman, Sinatra, Kingston Trio, Bob Seger, J.Geils Band, Nat King Cole and others long-recorded) Production Music library which had a long and extremely succesful history!
Many libraries were involved.
They included:
The Samuel Fox library (most QUICK DRAWs)
Jack Shaindlin (QUICK DRAW, a few FRACTURD FAIRY TALES, Warner's WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK and BIRD IN A BONNET)
MuTel (GUMBY, possibl the QUICK DRAW McGRAW trilogy)
Associated Production Music (I believe on BOZO, and REN AND STIMPY)
KPM, Berry, and Chappell were just some others.
The six Warner shorts using this cannd music:
WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK
HOOK LINE AND STINKER
A BIRD IN A BONNETT
PRE-HYSTERICAL HARE
GOPHER BROKE
HIP, HIP, HURRY!
Some familiar themes used from these tracks would, for Warnr Bros.cartoon topic her,e be:
in WEASEL WWHILE YOU WORK: Phil Green's "Custard Pie Capers" nee "Comedy Circus", when our hero's tobogganing or skiing down the snow. Namewiwse: TOBOGGAN RUN's easy to append to the tune but it's the very fast string laden, composition by Jack Shaindlin and brought IN by Seely.
NEVER in the ten or so 1958-62 WB shorts with this canned music,.It's in PIXIE AND DIXIE (and a similiar one also not used in the Warner Bros shorts, FAST MOVEMNT by George Hormel is heard. BOO BOO RUNS WILD uses this one when Boo Boo feral now, is in the clearin g and those other bears show up.FAST MOVEMENT was in that 1993 Saturn ad with drollo narration with dozen or so Saturn pictures with a Saturn surrounded by folks there.Yet another similiar, again elsuive to WB toons to my knowldege for all of these as to whether they were used by Seely iN WB, is another George Hormel cue called LIGHT MOVEMENT,think JINKS MICE DEVICE, with Jinks/Meeces,at the end. POWDERED TOASTMAN by Spumco had it when when the Gary owens voiced toastman actually gets around to untying the Frank Zappa voiced Pope. Excuse me. The FUNNY LITTLE MAN WITH THAT POINTED HAT, :D) Incidentally, as I have mentioned..MANY MANY cues,including the DONNA REED themes and the theems Warner bros.woudl use in their very un Looney like family shows and the severla Disney sued when they didn't have original music, were oftne reworkings,like that Sturn car tune was,. It was a Guy Lombardo (sweet-proto GLenn Miller) like tune. You CAN hear it in the 1957 Gumby TOY FUN when our boy takes off in a thingamjigy..It was from Sam Fox-OK library (Not Sammantha Fox..I think OK meant Seely's fellow musical packager Raoul Kraussar, anotbher early TV pioneer who btw had WILLIAM LAVA in his employ, the only credited one!), library Omar, and last name, Krausshar. Incidentally, the reasonably good last Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog (directors Ken Harris, Richard Thompson,not Chuck Jones here) Woolen Under Where, seemed to use as JDWeil said, below, Lava music that being from a guy who worked from one of Seely's fellow music compilers, clearly reveleaded itself as Seely music. The WOOLEN "Ralph Wolf's unikcyle tank" cue seems to be similair to a "J.Jordan"[NOT a certain overrated egotistical basketball player who kidnapped the 'Toons]'s "Trigogdon"? In the Southern music library.
Some others, as used in Gumby, would be:
DENNIS BERRY aka FRANK STERLING
CONRAD LEONARD
MAX SAUNDERS
HARRY LUBIN
A.H.WILKINSON
EDWARD WHITE
ROGER ROGER
ROBERT MERSEY.
The Carlin Archives has added as of 2008 or 2009 a LOT of the stuff..regarding JDWeil's comment, Seely and Raoul Krausshaar had a business agreement going, and WIlliam Lava worked for Mr.Kraushaar before scoring Warner Bros Cartoons! Maybe that was how the transition in part started to using Lava.
Going bakc to Gumby, a few cues I recognized in one where Pokey's fallen asleep and is at the wheel of Gumby's car, Roger Roger's fast paced "Chase me Chester" is played, and in an episode where he's babysitting, with Pokey, Prickle and Goo, Phil Green's "Hop and Skip" is used under the openings "Gumby's Gabby Aunt" and "Gumby Baby Sits", respectively are those cues.]
Thanks for mentioning that, JD, I recall WOOLEN UNDER WHERE (1963) having the knight and the tank thingamijiggy using that music. BUT YOU KNOW..WHAT ELSE?
The 1946 MOUSE MENACE had a robot mouse go and then stop to what sounded like early Seely/Capitol music (back then, they were starting off with the Chudnows-Seely joined in 1948-49.)
Ob:WB carotons: we can't forgot the very Un Looney tunes like, at a time when the cartoons with star characters were getting one diminesinional [in the late 1950s], Bell Science featurettes like "Alphabet Conspiracy" and such.
I agree with Dave Mackey at the offshott GAC forums, Cadkin and Bluestone and Green and Shaindlin, also Roger Roger-Roger's interesting, he was a French born, England and US based composer, many themes, named pronounced Roh-JAY Roh-JAY, his "Spunky and Tadpole" theme ["The Toy Store Window"] also needing mention.
Various blogs "Baikinange's Shadenfruedian Therapy" & "Bryan Lord's L:ounge" had these..Thanks to those here and in the offhsoot GAC Forums for enjoying this;Fibber Fox, Wiley207, DaveMackey, & Barb Herholzer to name just a few.
As most of us know, because of a 1958 music strike (AFM-American Federation of Musicians-that's their head J.C.Petrillo who Bugs Bunny's referencing in the 1950 short HURDY GURDY HARE - "I sure hope PETRILLO doesn't hear about THIS!!"), six Warner Bros., cartoons used canned music credited to producer-composer John Seely.
These stock-library tracks, of course, were used by Hanna-Barbera (RUFF AND REDDY, and the entire HUCK nd QUICK DRAW franchise), and JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE ELSE on TV!!! (The better to get a cheaper budget..the point of the WB cartoons using it)...
It was partly created and entirely controlled by the Capitol Records (yes, that Capitol records where The Beatles,Letterman, Sinatra, Kingston Trio, Bob Seger, J.Geils Band, Nat King Cole and others long-recorded) Production Music library which had a long and extremely succesful history!
Many libraries were involved.
They included:
The Samuel Fox library (most QUICK DRAWs)
Jack Shaindlin (QUICK DRAW, a few FRACTURD FAIRY TALES, Warner's WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK and BIRD IN A BONNET)
MuTel (GUMBY, possibl the QUICK DRAW McGRAW trilogy)
Associated Production Music (I believe on BOZO, and REN AND STIMPY)
KPM, Berry, and Chappell were just some others.
The six Warner shorts using this cannd music:
WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK
HOOK LINE AND STINKER
A BIRD IN A BONNETT
PRE-HYSTERICAL HARE
GOPHER BROKE
HIP, HIP, HURRY!
Some familiar themes used from these tracks would, for Warnr Bros.cartoon topic her,e be:
in WEASEL WWHILE YOU WORK: Phil Green's "Custard Pie Capers" nee "Comedy Circus", when our hero's tobogganing or skiing down the snow. Namewiwse: TOBOGGAN RUN's easy to append to the tune but it's the very fast string laden, composition by Jack Shaindlin and brought IN by Seely.
NEVER in the ten or so 1958-62 WB shorts with this canned music,.It's in PIXIE AND DIXIE (and a similiar one also not used in the Warner Bros shorts, FAST MOVEMNT by George Hormel is heard. BOO BOO RUNS WILD uses this one when Boo Boo feral now, is in the clearin g and those other bears show up.FAST MOVEMENT was in that 1993 Saturn ad with drollo narration with dozen or so Saturn pictures with a Saturn surrounded by folks there.Yet another similiar, again elsuive to WB toons to my knowldege for all of these as to whether they were used by Seely iN WB, is another George Hormel cue called LIGHT MOVEMENT,think JINKS MICE DEVICE, with Jinks/Meeces,at the end. POWDERED TOASTMAN by Spumco had it when when the Gary owens voiced toastman actually gets around to untying the Frank Zappa voiced Pope. Excuse me. The FUNNY LITTLE MAN WITH THAT POINTED HAT, :D) Incidentally, as I have mentioned..MANY MANY cues,including the DONNA REED themes and the theems Warner bros.woudl use in their very un Looney like family shows and the severla Disney sued when they didn't have original music, were oftne reworkings,like that Sturn car tune was,. It was a Guy Lombardo (sweet-proto GLenn Miller) like tune. You CAN hear it in the 1957 Gumby TOY FUN when our boy takes off in a thingamjigy..It was from Sam Fox-OK library (Not Sammantha Fox..I think OK meant Seely's fellow musical packager Raoul Kraussar, anotbher early TV pioneer who btw had WILLIAM LAVA in his employ, the only credited one!), library Omar, and last name, Krausshar. Incidentally, the reasonably good last Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog (directors Ken Harris, Richard Thompson,not Chuck Jones here) Woolen Under Where, seemed to use as JDWeil said, below, Lava music that being from a guy who worked from one of Seely's fellow music compilers, clearly reveleaded itself as Seely music. The WOOLEN "Ralph Wolf's unikcyle tank" cue seems to be similair to a "J.Jordan"[NOT a certain overrated egotistical basketball player who kidnapped the 'Toons]'s "Trigogdon"? In the Southern music library.
Some others, as used in Gumby, would be:
DENNIS BERRY aka FRANK STERLING
CONRAD LEONARD
MAX SAUNDERS
HARRY LUBIN
A.H.WILKINSON
EDWARD WHITE
ROGER ROGER
ROBERT MERSEY.
The Carlin Archives has added as of 2008 or 2009 a LOT of the stuff..regarding JDWeil's comment, Seely and Raoul Krausshaar had a business agreement going, and WIlliam Lava worked for Mr.Kraushaar before scoring Warner Bros Cartoons! Maybe that was how the transition in part started to using Lava.
Going bakc to Gumby, a few cues I recognized in one where Pokey's fallen asleep and is at the wheel of Gumby's car, Roger Roger's fast paced "Chase me Chester" is played, and in an episode where he's babysitting, with Pokey, Prickle and Goo, Phil Green's "Hop and Skip" is used under the openings "Gumby's Gabby Aunt" and "Gumby Baby Sits", respectively are those cues.]
Thanks for mentioning that, JD, I recall WOOLEN UNDER WHERE (1963) having the knight and the tank thingamijiggy using that music. BUT YOU KNOW..WHAT ELSE?
The 1946 MOUSE MENACE had a robot mouse go and then stop to what sounded like early Seely/Capitol music (back then, they were starting off with the Chudnows-Seely joined in 1948-49.)
Ob:WB carotons: we can't forgot the very Un Looney tunes like, at a time when the cartoons with star characters were getting one diminesinional [in the late 1950s], Bell Science featurettes like "Alphabet Conspiracy" and such.
I agree with Dave Mackey at the offshott GAC forums, Cadkin and Bluestone and Green and Shaindlin, also Roger Roger-Roger's interesting, he was a French born, England and US based composer, many themes, named pronounced Roh-JAY Roh-JAY, his "Spunky and Tadpole" theme ["The Toy Store Window"] also needing mention.
Various blogs "Baikinange's Shadenfruedian Therapy" & "Bryan Lord's L:ounge" had these..Thanks to those here and in the offhsoot GAC Forums for enjoying this;Fibber Fox, Wiley207, DaveMackey, & Barb Herholzer to name just a few.