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BobChief
05-14-2001, 12:01 PM
In 1936-37 Warners used what would be its last theme before the adoption of
"The Merry-go-Round Broke Down" for Looney Tunes shorts. It had no title,
and came from Warner staff composer M.K. Jerome, a feller with a rather
long résumé according to Internet Movie Database
(http://us.imdb.com/Name?M.K.+Jerome),
tho mostly of obscure B-pictures. Brian/Jon/Harley have this particular tune
on this site as http://www.toonzone.net/early-years/titles/looney4.ram.

My question regards the CLOSING title version of Mr Jerome's theme,
done in a different key than the opening version. Anybody here familiar with
redrawn versions (Patrick...) recognizes it as the grafted closing music of the
Guild/Sunset versions. (If there was an online version of that, I forgot again
where it was.)

In which toons was this closing version ACTUALLY used?

J Lee
05-14-2001, 03:44 PM
The closing music was used on only four Looney Tunes -- "Porky's Badtime Story," "Porky's Railroad," "Get Rich Quick Porky" and "Porky's Garden." At the same time, Stalling also started adding "Merrily We Roll Along" to the end titles of three Merrie Melodies -- "Plenty of Money and You," "Speaking of the Weather" and "Dog Daze" that matched the 1936-37 opening music before he changed over to the modified theme for the 1937-38 season and at the same time, introduced "The Merry Go Round Broke Down" as the new Looney Tunes theme.

Patrick McCart
05-14-2001, 07:46 PM
I think the different key may be because of a faster frame speed on a video transfer.

Get Rich Quickly Porky, Fish Tales, and any other "THAT'S ALL FOLKS!" end title cartoon from 1936-1937 WITHOUT the beans gang opening has this closing, I think.