Steve Carras
12-11-2005, 08:13 PM
This time a unusual angle here...
HOPEFULLY it might clear up a lot of misconeptions about this incase this happens to come up in some's post (like the WB shorts made during a strike in the fall of 1958)
I got last week (my birthday.;.) from a private collector, a three CD set of the scores..
The names of the variousa composers over the yearsd for this much maligned music service,which grew pout of several thrties and forites libraries for radio/flick/early teleivison, INCLUDING the Capitol Records "Special Purpose Transcription" label series, were Alexander Laszo*(NOT the runner of that camp!), Ed Lund*, Philip Green, Clarence Wheeler*(Woody Woodpecker), Harry Bluestone, William Geo.Loose (who oversaw the operaiton), Spencer Moore, George Hormel, Mahlon LeGrande Merrick (who'd used almost a HALF doz names such as Gene LeGrand :D ),* Luis DeFranceso*, Jack Meakin*, Jack Shaindlin, Jack Cookerly, Emil Cakdin, Herschel Brrke Gilbert*,Dave Buttolph, Jack Shaindlin, Irving Friedman*,Raoul Krasuhaar(?)*, John Seely HIMSELF (?), Leon Klatzin*, Charles WIlliams*,Al GLasser*, , King Palmer*,Roger Roger*("Roh-SHAY Roh-SHAY), and others.
NOTE: * indiciates tracks suuposedly not represented on my mailed CD
What with the issue fo ghostwriting, I COULD be wrong..:D)
Here is a seleciton of these from "Gumby", "Rocky and Bullwinkle",Yogi","Fractured Fairy Tales',"Quick Draw","Pabody","Susie-Ann Sothenr=Prv.Secretary",,"My 3 Sons","Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies","The Donna Reed Show","The Rifelman","The Real McCoys',"Ozzie and harriet","The Millionare")NOT the REGIS one!),"The Betty White Show","Ruff and Reddy","Father Knows Best","beany","Davy and Goliath" and "Leave it be beaver"----among MANY!!! (and of course "Ren and Stimpy",and numerous 50s and 90s ads)
The library soon grew and encompassed several...huge ones..the above mentioned ones" plus Capitol Production Music Series and then many successful years later "Ole Georg" (German?) took over, and sold it out in 1995:mad: :mad: :mad: ! (But A handful of those ARE still sold..such as Jack Shaindlin--his music turns up a lot in classic 50 year old shows!)
[The letters and numbers wwere also given for organizaiton's sake. Many of these had no "title" per se and as it was, the generic descriptions used were conviently repeated from one track to another]
CD 1 (NOTE..those are as credited...there may have beenb others..)
(PARTIAL,just the most recongizable ones)1.HEAVY AGIATO
(William Loose-John Seely)
This frantic classic creaiton occurs in Hanna-Barera's HUCKLBERRY H)OUDN segment about mosquitos (WHAT IS that one..with Daws Butler"Fred Allen" narration), when the mosquito is charging after our byddy.,
2.PIXIE COMEDY
(John Seely-William Loose)
This piano tune is used in WB's "Pre-Hysterical Hare" when Fudd lectures Bugs.One of the most COMMON in the Yogi,Huckleberry &Jinks dynasty.Not to be confused with PIXIE PRANKS (see below) or with PIXIE AND DIXIE..
3.2-TC-202 ECCENTIRC COMEDY
(S0L)
'This is underneath the above under opening credits.Same as for above.
Since most credited to Seely-Loose are among the most archetypical of YOGI,etc.
I will go on to
..
George Hormell's stuff.He is perhaps related to the chili/food maker..
.3-ZR-47 LIGHT MOVEMENT-this is the one used when the Gary owens voiced Powdered Toast man united the Frank Zappa (RIP) voiced Pope in PTM (8/15/92,Nickelodeon). Heard in MANY HB shorts..like HOME SWEET JELLYSTONE with you know who when the Ranger rushes to Yogi's aid and talks to himself..
4-ZR-48 FAST MOVEMENT
This is one of the most common chase tunes, appearing largely IIRC in Huck, Yogi, Pixie and Dixie..it was used in a 1990s Saturn Ad before the lirbary was sold out..it is unknown ho wrote it since the old Synchro library---associated with pioneer Sam Fox (est.1913 in Cleveland, Ohio!!) debuted it---and Seely and loose wrote it..a sax version existed in Synchro but we know it form Capitol with strings as an arrangement. It's H-B useage ..Pixie and Dixie..LITTLE BIRDMOUSE..all throughout the episode (plus TOBOGAN RUN and by Shaindlin and Hormel's 3-ZR-47) and KING SIZE SUPRISE when Jinks for once chases the meeces at the end, and in many Yogi's...SLUMBER PARTY SMARTY when he leaves the annoying little duckling at the end,,and PILGRIM HUCK when Huck "Injured an Injun"..
Okay,here is another one..
the eerie 5-ZR-49 LIGHT MOVEMENT by George Hormel...this is the scary string/harp/oboe underscore in the Huckleberry short mentioned just above and in P&D's THE GHOST WITH THE MOST
From comic musician Spencer Moore:
4-L-992 is used when in GOPHER BROKE (Warner Bros.,1958), the stock familiar recurring pooch from Robert McKimson shorts, both Foghorn Leghorn's, and elsehwere, whom the gophers try eradicate..after they do using helium, a rubber tire and trying it to him and filling it with helium!, when the dog sees a pre-"Babe" like pig with quizzical, deadpan expression...and gives new menaing to the expression to "freak out"and flaps his arms..a high pitched two note tune
6-L-1158 used in samne short PLUS Yogi shorts like BAFFLED BEAR..This has a colleciton of basoon sounds used in Little Birdmouse with Pxiie and Dixie..in GOPHER BROKE with Goofy Gophers it occurs during the dog's aforementioned freakouts.
Jack Shaindlin wrote many fine pieces like the one I'm playing, FUN ON ICE..used in BEARFACED DIGUISE when Ranger Smith feeds Yogy. This reconiclation in fact, which occurs (as we KNOW!) often between THOSE two, would be accompanied OFTEN by that one..it's a happy tune also heard in the HOME, SWEET, JELLYSTONE episode (both 1959) (under Yogi's "Th-a-t voice...I know it from somewhere. Oh yes. It's ki-i-indly Mister Ranger. How are YOU sir? (laughs). "SLAM!
Probaly HIS most known tuen and IMO one of television BEST's tunes is ANOTHER tune (see top) coincidentlaly called PIXIE (as in that uh.."Meece").>PIXIE PRANKS..It was this that I heard on "Ozzie and Harriet", making OaH sound like an old Yogi show. Screen Gems-Columbia Pictures shows (which HB's in this period and thru 1966 were) used this muic seemed to have original stuff made for it..at least DENNIS..based on the theme (Irving Friedman ).
PIXIE PRANKS is a myserious, frolisome little tune used in the 1958 Yogi.."Big Bad Bully'.It is heard RIGHT at the beginning.
TOBOGGAN RUN is discussed, but in REFERENCE to about a dozen OTHER cues! First of all what it REALLY isnt;..it is NOT that toboggan music in "Looney Tunes" (the one with Foghorn Leghorn, that limb-picking weasel, set in the snow, and with that canned score, WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK)--which is CUSTARD PIE CAPERS, heard in a CINDERELLA themed Jay Ward "Fractured Fairy Tale", and of course in Gumby (LioN Drive) and Snoop and Blab.
Instead Toboggan Run is the tune in "Oinks and Boinks" with the three pigs and Yogi when the wolf (Hokey Wolf/Bilko - Daws Butler) does his windy job! And in countless other shows..
Emil Cadkin and Harry Bluestone did the majority of music used in Hanna-Barbera's AUGIE DOGGIE series..HAPPY HOME is one heard under Augie trying to get his dad to something for him. It emphasises strings.Another one of those was one of the remakes by CaB of a classic Bill loose piece for Seely, titled "5-C-%',out of the 7th of those Lps. Titled PLAYFUL PUP.
Probaly a MAJOR fave-rave of mine among the many John Seely ghostwriters was Philip Green..at HB it's IMO mostly "Quick Draw McGraw, Super Snooper and Babber Mousem, ad Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy" that used it. The Rhino CD which many of US (myself included!) have has THAT guy's needledrops..
Let's ID them by overweing that, shall we? (The CD came out in 1994)
QUICK DRAW
"The Diddlecomb Hunt" aka "Comedy Walker:", "Fred Karno's Army", aka "Comedy march', and "Hicksville" aka "Rural Foxtrot".
AUGIE (funny, but I always recalled him at the end and Snoop at the head)
"Untitled"(Busy Activity),"The Kiddie Comedy Suite OVerture: Toyland Parade"(NOTE: Back then, at elast, composers were required to do these suites.This was one of them,.) "The Big City Suite Part One and Three"(these sound alike..this was another..,)
SSabM:
"Popcorn" aka "ComedyWalker", (see what I mean about reused generic titles..), "Dressed to KIll", and "Csutard Pie Capers".
The last is the one used in Foghorn Leghorn and - erroneously, by the way - cited as "Toboggan Run"--see above.
Popcorn is in Weasel While you work and in My Three Sons during the 1960-1965 ABC B&W William Frawley episodes.
Bush Baby, getting away from the Rhino HANNA BARBERA PIC A NIC CD, is used on AUGIE DOGGIE..it is a quiet fuinny tuen with strings and reed, in the Warner bros. short A BIRD IN A BONNETT, this plays when Granny buys the "tweety hat" (and Freleng cuts to a shot of the tow laides with Foray's voice both as Granny and as the "millener"0. The next tune after that one therew was Dressed to jkill.
Philip Green, who wrote those starting with the QUICK DRAW one, did a lot of defining themes Skelton in the cUpboard, and the three above.
David Buttolph, a veterna film music director, scored part of that 1950s LION TAMER HUCK with The BlueHombre's favfe dog and mine,durign the lion scenes..
(Thansk to Dan Matheson, Jon Buringame, Earl KRess, Steve Worth and Piet SChrueders, and Dave mackey, The Internet Movie atabse, and Dave Sheild's
history
istori of Producviton Music, and http://www.apmusic.com
Sorry if this is beating a dead toon animal..
HOPEFULLY it might clear up a lot of misconeptions about this incase this happens to come up in some's post (like the WB shorts made during a strike in the fall of 1958)
I got last week (my birthday.;.) from a private collector, a three CD set of the scores..
The names of the variousa composers over the yearsd for this much maligned music service,which grew pout of several thrties and forites libraries for radio/flick/early teleivison, INCLUDING the Capitol Records "Special Purpose Transcription" label series, were Alexander Laszo*(NOT the runner of that camp!), Ed Lund*, Philip Green, Clarence Wheeler*(Woody Woodpecker), Harry Bluestone, William Geo.Loose (who oversaw the operaiton), Spencer Moore, George Hormel, Mahlon LeGrande Merrick (who'd used almost a HALF doz names such as Gene LeGrand :D ),* Luis DeFranceso*, Jack Meakin*, Jack Shaindlin, Jack Cookerly, Emil Cakdin, Herschel Brrke Gilbert*,Dave Buttolph, Jack Shaindlin, Irving Friedman*,Raoul Krasuhaar(?)*, John Seely HIMSELF (?), Leon Klatzin*, Charles WIlliams*,Al GLasser*, , King Palmer*,Roger Roger*("Roh-SHAY Roh-SHAY), and others.
NOTE: * indiciates tracks suuposedly not represented on my mailed CD
What with the issue fo ghostwriting, I COULD be wrong..:D)
Here is a seleciton of these from "Gumby", "Rocky and Bullwinkle",Yogi","Fractured Fairy Tales',"Quick Draw","Pabody","Susie-Ann Sothenr=Prv.Secretary",,"My 3 Sons","Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies","The Donna Reed Show","The Rifelman","The Real McCoys',"Ozzie and harriet","The Millionare")NOT the REGIS one!),"The Betty White Show","Ruff and Reddy","Father Knows Best","beany","Davy and Goliath" and "Leave it be beaver"----among MANY!!! (and of course "Ren and Stimpy",and numerous 50s and 90s ads)
The library soon grew and encompassed several...huge ones..the above mentioned ones" plus Capitol Production Music Series and then many successful years later "Ole Georg" (German?) took over, and sold it out in 1995:mad: :mad: :mad: ! (But A handful of those ARE still sold..such as Jack Shaindlin--his music turns up a lot in classic 50 year old shows!)
[The letters and numbers wwere also given for organizaiton's sake. Many of these had no "title" per se and as it was, the generic descriptions used were conviently repeated from one track to another]
CD 1 (NOTE..those are as credited...there may have beenb others..)
(PARTIAL,just the most recongizable ones)1.HEAVY AGIATO
(William Loose-John Seely)
This frantic classic creaiton occurs in Hanna-Barera's HUCKLBERRY H)OUDN segment about mosquitos (WHAT IS that one..with Daws Butler"Fred Allen" narration), when the mosquito is charging after our byddy.,
2.PIXIE COMEDY
(John Seely-William Loose)
This piano tune is used in WB's "Pre-Hysterical Hare" when Fudd lectures Bugs.One of the most COMMON in the Yogi,Huckleberry &Jinks dynasty.Not to be confused with PIXIE PRANKS (see below) or with PIXIE AND DIXIE..
3.2-TC-202 ECCENTIRC COMEDY
(S0L)
'This is underneath the above under opening credits.Same as for above.
Since most credited to Seely-Loose are among the most archetypical of YOGI,etc.
I will go on to
..
George Hormell's stuff.He is perhaps related to the chili/food maker..
.3-ZR-47 LIGHT MOVEMENT-this is the one used when the Gary owens voiced Powdered Toast man united the Frank Zappa (RIP) voiced Pope in PTM (8/15/92,Nickelodeon). Heard in MANY HB shorts..like HOME SWEET JELLYSTONE with you know who when the Ranger rushes to Yogi's aid and talks to himself..
4-ZR-48 FAST MOVEMENT
This is one of the most common chase tunes, appearing largely IIRC in Huck, Yogi, Pixie and Dixie..it was used in a 1990s Saturn Ad before the lirbary was sold out..it is unknown ho wrote it since the old Synchro library---associated with pioneer Sam Fox (est.1913 in Cleveland, Ohio!!) debuted it---and Seely and loose wrote it..a sax version existed in Synchro but we know it form Capitol with strings as an arrangement. It's H-B useage ..Pixie and Dixie..LITTLE BIRDMOUSE..all throughout the episode (plus TOBOGAN RUN and by Shaindlin and Hormel's 3-ZR-47) and KING SIZE SUPRISE when Jinks for once chases the meeces at the end, and in many Yogi's...SLUMBER PARTY SMARTY when he leaves the annoying little duckling at the end,,and PILGRIM HUCK when Huck "Injured an Injun"..
Okay,here is another one..
the eerie 5-ZR-49 LIGHT MOVEMENT by George Hormel...this is the scary string/harp/oboe underscore in the Huckleberry short mentioned just above and in P&D's THE GHOST WITH THE MOST
From comic musician Spencer Moore:
4-L-992 is used when in GOPHER BROKE (Warner Bros.,1958), the stock familiar recurring pooch from Robert McKimson shorts, both Foghorn Leghorn's, and elsehwere, whom the gophers try eradicate..after they do using helium, a rubber tire and trying it to him and filling it with helium!, when the dog sees a pre-"Babe" like pig with quizzical, deadpan expression...and gives new menaing to the expression to "freak out"and flaps his arms..a high pitched two note tune
6-L-1158 used in samne short PLUS Yogi shorts like BAFFLED BEAR..This has a colleciton of basoon sounds used in Little Birdmouse with Pxiie and Dixie..in GOPHER BROKE with Goofy Gophers it occurs during the dog's aforementioned freakouts.
Jack Shaindlin wrote many fine pieces like the one I'm playing, FUN ON ICE..used in BEARFACED DIGUISE when Ranger Smith feeds Yogy. This reconiclation in fact, which occurs (as we KNOW!) often between THOSE two, would be accompanied OFTEN by that one..it's a happy tune also heard in the HOME, SWEET, JELLYSTONE episode (both 1959) (under Yogi's "Th-a-t voice...I know it from somewhere. Oh yes. It's ki-i-indly Mister Ranger. How are YOU sir? (laughs). "SLAM!
Probaly HIS most known tuen and IMO one of television BEST's tunes is ANOTHER tune (see top) coincidentlaly called PIXIE (as in that uh.."Meece").>PIXIE PRANKS..It was this that I heard on "Ozzie and Harriet", making OaH sound like an old Yogi show. Screen Gems-Columbia Pictures shows (which HB's in this period and thru 1966 were) used this muic seemed to have original stuff made for it..at least DENNIS..based on the theme (Irving Friedman ).
PIXIE PRANKS is a myserious, frolisome little tune used in the 1958 Yogi.."Big Bad Bully'.It is heard RIGHT at the beginning.
TOBOGGAN RUN is discussed, but in REFERENCE to about a dozen OTHER cues! First of all what it REALLY isnt;..it is NOT that toboggan music in "Looney Tunes" (the one with Foghorn Leghorn, that limb-picking weasel, set in the snow, and with that canned score, WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK)--which is CUSTARD PIE CAPERS, heard in a CINDERELLA themed Jay Ward "Fractured Fairy Tale", and of course in Gumby (LioN Drive) and Snoop and Blab.
Instead Toboggan Run is the tune in "Oinks and Boinks" with the three pigs and Yogi when the wolf (Hokey Wolf/Bilko - Daws Butler) does his windy job! And in countless other shows..
Emil Cadkin and Harry Bluestone did the majority of music used in Hanna-Barbera's AUGIE DOGGIE series..HAPPY HOME is one heard under Augie trying to get his dad to something for him. It emphasises strings.Another one of those was one of the remakes by CaB of a classic Bill loose piece for Seely, titled "5-C-%',out of the 7th of those Lps. Titled PLAYFUL PUP.
Probaly a MAJOR fave-rave of mine among the many John Seely ghostwriters was Philip Green..at HB it's IMO mostly "Quick Draw McGraw, Super Snooper and Babber Mousem, ad Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy" that used it. The Rhino CD which many of US (myself included!) have has THAT guy's needledrops..
Let's ID them by overweing that, shall we? (The CD came out in 1994)
QUICK DRAW
"The Diddlecomb Hunt" aka "Comedy Walker:", "Fred Karno's Army", aka "Comedy march', and "Hicksville" aka "Rural Foxtrot".
AUGIE (funny, but I always recalled him at the end and Snoop at the head)
"Untitled"(Busy Activity),"The Kiddie Comedy Suite OVerture: Toyland Parade"(NOTE: Back then, at elast, composers were required to do these suites.This was one of them,.) "The Big City Suite Part One and Three"(these sound alike..this was another..,)
SSabM:
"Popcorn" aka "ComedyWalker", (see what I mean about reused generic titles..), "Dressed to KIll", and "Csutard Pie Capers".
The last is the one used in Foghorn Leghorn and - erroneously, by the way - cited as "Toboggan Run"--see above.
Popcorn is in Weasel While you work and in My Three Sons during the 1960-1965 ABC B&W William Frawley episodes.
Bush Baby, getting away from the Rhino HANNA BARBERA PIC A NIC CD, is used on AUGIE DOGGIE..it is a quiet fuinny tuen with strings and reed, in the Warner bros. short A BIRD IN A BONNETT, this plays when Granny buys the "tweety hat" (and Freleng cuts to a shot of the tow laides with Foray's voice both as Granny and as the "millener"0. The next tune after that one therew was Dressed to jkill.
Philip Green, who wrote those starting with the QUICK DRAW one, did a lot of defining themes Skelton in the cUpboard, and the three above.
David Buttolph, a veterna film music director, scored part of that 1950s LION TAMER HUCK with The BlueHombre's favfe dog and mine,durign the lion scenes..
(Thansk to Dan Matheson, Jon Buringame, Earl KRess, Steve Worth and Piet SChrueders, and Dave mackey, The Internet Movie atabse, and Dave Sheild's
history
istori of Producviton Music, and http://www.apmusic.com
Sorry if this is beating a dead toon animal..