I finally found a "good" sound file of "This Is Is"!

[Brandon Pierce]

It's a whole lot better than the crappy sound file over at Toon Tracker. This one is more clearer and more hight-quality. Enjoy! This Is It! (http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Music/ltmu_002.wav)
-Brandon "The Yak in the Sak Gets Thwacked" Pierce

[Garrett]

Originally posted by Brandon Pierce
It's a whole lot better than the crappy sound file over at Toon Tracker. This one is more clearer and more hight-quality. Enjoy! This Is It! (http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Music/ltmu_002.wav)


Too bad the middle section is chopped out, like in the movie parody video releases. My kingdom for a quality copy of "This Is It"!

Garrett

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by Garrett
Too bad the middle section is chopped out, like in the movie parody video releases. My kingdom for a quality copy of "This Is It"!


What is this "middle section" you are referring to? The part where all the characters march across the stage? I listened to the sound clip and the song was complete.


-Jon

[Brandon Pierce]

I think he's refering to the studio remix version. Which just has a longer instrumental break. It was used as the credits theme for The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show (which hardly anyone could hear do to advertisements played over the credits).

[Garrett]

Originally posted by Jon Cooke
[B]
What is this "middle section" you are referring to? The part where all the characters march across the stage? I listened to the sound clip and the song was complete.


I'm referring to the instrumental fanfare-type stuff before the final chorus, which just happens to make up half of the cruddy sound file I have-the rest of this better quality file is complete, though.

Garrett

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by Brandon Pierce
I think he's refering to the studio remix version. Which just has a longer instrumental break. It was used as the credits theme for The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show (which hardly anyone could hear do to advertisements played over the credits).


The ending credits music to Bugs and Tweety was a shortened version of the end credits music to The Bugs Bunny Show.


-Jon

[Garrett]

Originally posted by Brandon Pierce
I think he's refering to the studio remix version. Which just has a longer instrumental break. It was used as the credits theme for The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show (which hardly anyone could hear do to advertisements played over the credits).

It's not a remix version-it's what CBS used in the good old days. This is what ABC used in its final days (at the minimum), minus the lame-sounding announcer's intro, and the cheesy additional closing that played over the final title card.

Garrett

P.S.-Perhaps I should just e-mail the file I have to you guys.....

[Jon Cooke]

I'm sorry, Garrett, I still have no idea what you're talking about. All versions of "This Is It!" I have ever heard and seen (and I have copies of original episodes of The Bugs Bunny Show on tape) have all been the same length as the sound file Brandon linked to.


-Jon

[Brandon Pierce]

Here you go, Jon! A link to a "This Is It!" file with a longer instrumental version. I think this is what Garret is talking about. This Is It (long version) (http://soundamerica.com/sounds/themes/Cartoons/B/bbunny.wav)

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by Brandon Pierce
Here you go, Jon! A link to a "This Is It!" file with a longer instrumental version. I think this is what Garret is talking about. This Is It (long version) (http://soundamerica.com/sounds/themes/Cartoons/B/bbunny.wav)


Hmmm... very interesting. I have never heard this before. The final verse there is not sung by Bugs and Daffy. The "extended" segment sounds like it was lifted from the end credits music. Does anyone have any idea where this originated?


-Jon

[J Lee]

The Sound America version sounds like someone edited the instrumental in themselves, in between the opening and closing sections. Anyway, if I remember right, the only time they edited out Bugs and Daffys voices completely and bumped up the background vocal singers was for the prime-time Bugs Bunny Show, which CBS aired during the summer of 1977 or 1978.

BTW -- After that Daffy suffered another indignity. They never used his voice again at the end of the opening theme song. Only Mel Blanc's Bugs can be heard, not Daffy.

Techincally, you could pretend Daffy's wireless mike went out on him, but actually the original Bugs Bunny Show had two openings into the bridge sequences; one where only Bugs was in the opening scene and one where both Bugs and Daffy were in the opening segment of made-for-TV animation. When Warner's redid the opening animation in the late 1970s, they used the wrong vocal track and got it from one of the Bugs-only episodes, so for the last 20 years on CBS and ABC when they finished off the song, Daffy could have used that "Sound Please" sign from "Duck Amuck."

[Garrett]

Originally posted by J Lee
The Sound America version sounds like someone edited the instrumental in themselves, in between the opening and closing sections.

I doubt that. The flute solo never aired in the end credits in my lifetime-and I can safely say that I never missed the show from 1982-the end of the CBS run. In fact, the end credits stayed the same from that time until the ABC run ended (as I had wanted to get it for that exact reason, but missed most of the last showings on ABC). Besides, just about every opening theme of the 80s lasts about a minute even (or 90 seconds), with the end themes about 30-45 seconds. It's an odd but true trend.....

Garrett

[Brandon Pierce]

Originally posted by J Lee

BTW -- After that Daffy suffered another indignity. They never used his voice again at the end of the opening theme song. Only Mel Blanc's Bugs can be heard, not Daffy.



Techincally, you could pretend Daffy's wireless mike went out on him, but actually the original Bugs Bunny Show had two openings into the bridge sequences; one where only Bugs was in the opening scene and one where both Bugs and Daffy were in the opening segment of made-for-TV animation. When Warner's redid the opening animation in the late 1970s, they used the wrong vocal track and got it from one of the Bugs-only episodes, so for the last 20 years on CBS and ABC when they finished off the song, Daffy could have used that "Sound Please" sign from "Duck Amuck."

Interesting... I always wondered why in The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show, at the last part you could only hear Bugs's voice and not Daffy's. I always figured it was a remastering screw-up, like in Gorrilla My Dreams.

[Brandon Pierce]

Interesting... I always wondered why in The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show, at the last part you could only hear Bugs's voice and not Daffy's. I always figured it was a remastering screw-up, like in Gorrilla My Dreams.

Whoops! That IS a remastering screw-up! Sorry, I just got up a 1 hour ago, and my brain isn't "up" yet.

[J Lee]

Ron Kurer's Toon Tracker web site has the original long version of the Bugs Bunny Show opening, complete with Bugs and Daffy hawking Post cerials. Listen to the end of the "This is It!" music and you can hear both Bugsand Daffy's voices

The Bugs Bunny Show -- 1960 opening in Real Audio (http://www.toontracker.com/realaudio/bugsbunn.ram)

[Mike]

Originally posted by Jon Cooke



Hmmm... very interesting. I have never heard this before. The final verse there is not sung by Bugs and Daffy. The "extended" segment sounds like it was lifted from the end credits music. Does anyone have any idea where this originated?


-Jon

SoundAmerica probably got its version from "Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 1" a double-length album released in the mid80s. The producers of that album frequently mixed the beginning and end theme songs of shows together, with no warning whatsoever. In addition to The Bugs Bunny Show, they did this to The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Gilligan's Island, among others. This was actually the first time I had heard the original end credits music to The Jetsons. In fact, at the time I bought this album, I didn't even know the end credits of the 1962-63 Jetsons episodes differed from the 1980s episodes.

It's tough to figure out just where they got the end credits music to "This is it." The instrumental part (with the flute and everything) sounds like the instrumental version played under the end credits of every incarnation of The Bugs Bunny Show from 1960 to 2000. But I can't put my finger on the part where the chorus sings the final verse. In the end credits of the original version, you heard a similar-sounding chorus sing "This is The Bugs Bunny Show!" but never the entire last verse of "This is it."

Anyway, the "Television's Greatest Hits" album that originated all this controversy is still available in stores and on-line. It's available in CD or cassette form. This is the rare instance where I'm actually recomending the tape version, as it features Don Pardo and the "Duck and Cover" PSA featuring Bert the Turtle that was shown at the height of the Cold War, in the 1950s. But even if you get the CD, it's a great album, one that I've listened to many times.

Mike