Favorite Song(s) used in classic cartoons

[Emmanuel Cruz]

For me, they are:

You Ought to Be in Pictures
Powerhouse (Both Versions)
Moonlight Bay
Mysterious Mose (Expectally in "Wholly Smoke")
The Toy Trumpet
Organ Grinder's Swing
Shuffle Off to Buffalo
The Penguin
Hooray for Hollywood
Mammy's Little Baby Love Shortin' Bread
The Merry Go Round Broke Down (Daffy's rendition in "Daffy Duck and Egghead")
September in the Rain
I Love to Singa
Swing for Sale
Taps
Blues in the Night


There's more. But I don't remember.

-Emmanuel :bosko:

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Also:

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
(The next song I don't know its title, but it's heard in the beginning of "The Awful Orphan," in the beginning credits of "Bosko's Picture Show," and at the end of "The Organ Grinder.")
Someone's Rockin' my Dreamboat
Trade Winds
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
William Tell Overture

-Emmanuel :bosko:

[Cartman]

Some of mine include:

Dixie
Funeral March of a Marionette
Steamboat Bill
Swanee River
William Tell Overture

[Larry T]

I've always liked:

"Black Coffee" (see "Don't Look Now", WB)
"Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals" (See "Gorilla My Dreams", WB)
"In The Stirrups" (See "Buckaroo Bugs", WB)
"Happy Days Are Here Again" (See "The Lonesome Mouse", MGM)
"Judgement Day" (Merrie Melodies Theme Song)
"Hungarian Rhapsody #2"
"Brahm's Hungarian Dances #5" (See "Pigs In a Polka", WB)
"Largo Al Factotum" (nobody, but NOBODY can beat Woody Woodpecker's Rendition of this!!)
"Barber Of Seville" (See "Rabbit Of Seville", WB)
"The Anvil Chorus"
"The Poet and the Peasant"
"Toccaten and Fugen in G Minor"
"Moonlight Sonata"
"The Unfinished Symphony" (See "Boo Bop", Paramount)
"Fingal's Cave Overture" (See Any Inki Cartoon)

[backdoc425]

I don't know the title, I can't remember which Daffy cartoon it comes from BUT I have been humming it off and on for 2 days:

She was an acrobat's daughter,
She swung by her teeth from a noose.
But one matinee, her bridge-work gave way
And she flew through the air like a goose!

And, of course, Bugs' renditions of "Someone's Rockin' My Dreamboat" & "Tradewinds"

[Jack]

Originally posted by backdoc425
I don't know the title, I can't remember which Daffy cartoon it comes from BUT I have been humming it off and on for 2 days:

She was an acrobat's daughter,
She swung by her teeth from a noose.
But one matinee, her bridge-work gave way
And she flew through the air like a goose!

And, of course, Bugs' renditions of "Someone's Rockin' My Dreamboat" & "Tradewinds"
That's from "Daffy Doodles," Robert McKimson's first official directoral effort for WB. the song is called "She Was An Acrobat's Daughter," but I don't believe those are the real words.


Jack :D

[Thad Komorowski]

Originally posted by Larry T
I've always liked:

"Black Coffee" (see "Don't Look Now", WB)
"Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals" (See "Gorilla My Dreams", WB)
"In The Stirrups" (See "Buckaroo Bugs", WB)
"Happy Days Are Here Again" (See "The Lonesome Mouse", MGM)
"Judgement Day" (Merrie Melodies Theme Song)
"Hungarian Rhapsody #2"
"Brahm's Hungarian Dances #5" (See "Pigs In a Polka", WB)
"Largo Al Factotum" (nobody, but NOBODY can beat Woody Woodpecker's Rendition of this!!)
"Barber Of Seville" (See "Rabbit Of Seville", WB)
"The Anvil Chorus"
"The Poet and the Peasant"
"Toccaten and Fugen in G Minor"
"Moonlight Sonata"
"The Unfinished Symphony" (See "Boo Bop", Paramount)
"Fingal's Cave Overture" (See Any Inki Cartoon)

To add to that list (I like all of the ones listed on Larry's list above):

"I'm in the Mood for Love" (nobody can top Katnip's version of this! :p )
"It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day" (see "Better Bait Than Never")
"Java Jive" (see "Robinson Crusoe Jr.")
"Swing for Sale" (see "Clean Pastures")
"Sweet Georgia Brown" (see "To Hare is Human")
"Carolina in the Morning" (see "Book Revue")
"Angel in Disguise" (noone can top Sylvester's version! :p )



Thad K

[Larry T]

Originally posted by Emmanuel Cruz

(The next song I don't know its title, but it's heard in the beginning of "The Awful Orphan," in the beginning credits of "Bosko's Picture Show," and at the end of "The Organ Grinder.")


Hmm, that would be "42nd Street".... I like that one, too!

[Jason Furness]

Here's some I like:

-Woodenhead Puddinhead Jones
-Summer Night
-Them Raymond Scott songs
-We're In the Money
-Black Coffee
-How Dry I Am
-Streamlined Greta Green
-I Only Have Eyes for You
-I'm a Little Big Shot Now (as sung by that blue bird criminal ^_^ )
-That piece of classical music used in early Road Runner cartoons
-Swing for Sale
-September in the Rain
-You're an Education
-Bill Lava's Road Runner and Speedy Gonzales themes



Originally posted by backdoc425
I don't know the title, I can't remember which Daffy cartoon it comes from BUT I have been humming it off and on for 2 days:

She was an acrobat's daughter,
She swung by her teeth from a noose.
But one matinee, her bridge-work gave way
And she flew through the air like a goose!



THE LYRICS as presented in the 1937 Merrie Melodie "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter":

She was an acrobat's daughter,
Her muscles they swelled up like yeast
One look at her face
made guys keep their place
'Cause she feared neither Boy, Man not Beast

She was an acrobat's daughter,
She often tamed lions besides
One bit her named Jack
and she bit him right back
In two days the poor lion died


OK, I have a favorite tune that was played in a handful of WB cartoons from 1938 and 1939, then was never heard again. I have no idea what it's called, and I've been wondering about it for several years. Any of you know what this "mystery tune" could be? :confused:

You can hear it in:

-"Count Me Out", when Egghead sits on Biff Stew's lap and imitates Charlie McCarthy

-"The Daffy Doc", when Daffy escapes from the Iron Lung (the first time) and then tries to keep various parts of his body from swelling with air

-"Hamateur Night", in two scenes showing the Laughing Hippo

-"Naughty but Mice", while Sniffles drukenly staggers along the shelf till he crashes into the Electric Razor

[Feslmogh]

You can hear most of thses songs from the Carl Stalling CD's. My favorite album is "That's All Folks (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005N836/qid%3D1020083656/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/102-9315657-8491314) " Its has most of my most favorite and intoduced me to new ones.

[Davesnothere]

Howzabout Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone ? It's one of the best kissoff songs ever. Michigan J. Frog sings it to the construction worker (now asylum inmate) while leaning against one of the bars in the window and reprises it just before he gets ditched in the cornerstone of the new Tregoweth Brown building. A little bit of knife twisting courtesy of Chuck Jones and Carl Stalling. ;)

[TheRedEye]

What's the name of the song sung at the beginning of Little Red Riding Rabbit?

[chuckamuck43]

Here 'tis -
THE FIVE O'CLOCK WHISTLE (http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/f/fiveoclockwhistle.html).

Bea Benederet does the singing.

[frogboxer]

Anyone know the name of that tune played whenever Bugs does a tapdance routine? It's in "Stage Door Cartoon," "Bugs Bunny Rides Again," and "Hot Cross Bunny" to name a few.

[Larry T]

Originally posted by frogboxer
Anyone know the name of that tune played whenever Bugs does a tapdance routine? It's in "Stage Door Cartoon," "Bugs Bunny Rides Again," and "Hot Cross Bunny" to name a few.

All I've ever read about that piece is that it's always referred to by Stalling as the "Buck-and-Wing" theme. I don't know if that was the title or it was a piece made up by Stalling for just those occasions in the cartoons that used it.

More for the list:

"A Coffee, A Sandwich, and You"
"Kiss Me Quick"
"Sweet Georgia Brown" - best rendition: "The Isle Of Pingo Pongo"
"Nagasaki" - See "Tin Pan Alley Cats" (what's the other cartoon that uses this same song? Is it "September In The Rain?"
"Meow" - See "A Gruesome Twosome" (WB)
"One More Time" - from the cartoon of the same name
"You're Driving Me Crazy" - See "Silly Scandals" (Fleischer)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Thad K
"I'm in the Mood for Love" (nobody can top Katnip's version of this!

Oh yes, his version is so wonderfully off-key!! :D

Does anybody else know what the African-themed music is that's usually played in WB cartoons? A good example of it is in "Which is Witch" when the Zulus go walking by the Witch doctor with Bugs Bunny in the line, and also at the opening scenes of "Gorilla My Dreams".

[J Lee]

Howzabout Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone ? It's one of the best kissoff songs ever. Michigan J. Frog sings it to the construction worker (now asylum inmate) while leaning against one of the bars in the window and reprises it just before he gets ditched in the cornerstone of the new Tregoweth Brown building. A little bit of knife twisting courtesy of Chuck Jones and Carl Stalling.

Just a side note on that: Apparantly when PBS aired the documentary on Chuck Jones they couldn't clear rights to that song when the clip of "One Froggy Evening" aired, so it was dubbed over.

[MrSaturn]

A little off topic but does anyone know the name of the song that always plays when the sun is rising/someone is waking in Looney Tunes cartoons? I have been trying to find it for a while now.