Songs about the Looney Tunes

[boilerwash]

I've been listening to "The Bob and Tom Show" on my radio for the last few days where they've been running all their classic christmas songs. One of the songs features Porky Pig singing "Blue Christmas" and it's funny as he** and the guy they hired to due the voice is actually really good. But it got me to thinking and I wanted to ask, other than what gets officially released by Warner Bros. are there any other songs that are about or feature the Looney Tunes made by independent writers?

[rodney]

That song was actually done by Seymour Swine a long time ago. It's not an original Bob & Tom song.

I can think of a line from an Ass Ponys song that mentions LT characters. The song is Your Amazing Life, and it's on the 2000 album "Some Stupid With a Flare Gun"


"You never had a rhyme or a reason
a notion or a clue.
A duck insisting that it's rabbit season,
if days are numbered,
this one's two."

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by boilerwash
I've been listening to "The Bob and Tom Show" on my radio for the last few days where they've been running all their classic christmas songs. One of the songs features Porky Pig singing "Blue Christmas" and it's funny as he** and the guy they hired to due the voice is actually really good. But it got me to thinking and I wanted to ask, other than what gets officially released by Warner Bros. are there any other songs that are about or feature the Looney Tunes made by independent writers?

Actually Boilerwash...

From the late Forties onwards Mel Blanc did a whole series of songs featuring the Warner characters, first for Capitol Records and co-written by none other than Warners writers Warren Foster, Tedd Pierce and occasionally Michael Maltese. Then from the mid-Fifties he did a whole line of songs for Little Golden Records, again largely written by Foster and Pierce, then a bunch by other writers which are hobbled by the Sandpipers singing... The Capitol songs are generally great though!!!... Especially "Daffy's Rhapsody". (Blanc had an extensive career at Capitol doing comedy songs and Looney Tunes story records by well you know who by now...;)). Also Robin Williams did a version of the song "Fire" which he called 'Elmer Fudd Doing Bruce Springsteen'!! I think you can figure out what that came out as!

[J Lee]

Tim --

I remember when Williams' parody was in pretty heavy rotation on MTV around 1984 or so, though to be honest, I think Robin picked the wrong Sprinsteen song to "Fuddize" -- he would have had a lot more fun with "Born to Run" (try reciting the lyrics and you'll see what I mean).