For reasons I don’t really understand, in New Zealand they repeated Butch Cassidy in particular many times through the 70s and 80s, while completely overlooking many of the other clone HB shows that often get listed elsewhere.
Ref my earlier confused post, I’m still trying to understand what the OP was asking about & whether any of the posts since have been relevant.
OP?
I do believe that I have commented on more than one example, but to clear things up I am talking about the story line being interrupted by a montage of the protagonists running around, sometimes chased by the antagonists, while a musical number is played and sometimes sung, much like a music video in the middle of a Monkees episode.
The real business point(s) of this:
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Cheap to produce. The ‘running around’ wasn’t really connected to the song or the lyrics – so the artwork for that could be re-used in multiple cartoons.
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Easy to cut. Since it wasn’t really connected to the plot, it is easy to cut parts of it when you need to shorten the run time (like when the cartoon is in syndication on cheaper stations/cable networks, which have more commercials than major broadcasters). Cut 30 seconds of this and fade the music down, and you can sell one more 30-sec commercial.
And, TBH, reusing animation sequences was a big part of those late '60s / early '70s Hanna-Barbera and Filmation cartoons.
But is your question what is the music that is universally used on all chases in all shows, or what specific music is used on which specific episodes of which specific shows? Or do you just want random examples of some given music that appeared in some given show and you’ll decide later which one(s) you’re interested in?
If I wanted to help you, what should I be searching for?
IIUC, Not music. Songs. Purportedly played by the characters.
I believe I originally wanted the original (mostly) music that took place during those musical interludes. and I wondered if they had been collected anywhere. Sometimes they happened during an extend chase scene, sometimes they were just songs played in the middle of episodes (like those Groovie Goolies interludes).
Good example.
Definitely NOT this, which I believe has already been pointed out.
Most were too awful for even the most bubblegum artist (for whom most were probably originally intended). The only notable gem I’m aware of was “Sugar, Sugar”.
Au contraire, some of the musical hits from Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution were MTV award winning hits, or would have been had there been an MTV at the time. In reality, they were performed by Steve Hoffman, who was also the vocalist for Willie Wimple on Sesame Street, among other odd jobs.
Ed Simian, of “Really big show” fame, will gladly hype these super groovy tracks:
Didn’t the Groovy Goolies cover “Chick-A-Boom”?
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
The Pebbles & Bamm Bamm Show would routinely have a musical montage in the middle of the episode by “The Bedrock Rockers".
Not quite the same, but the ‘80s had Kidd Video that always ended with a music video.
Fans of The Hardy Boys books might be surprised to learn that the brothers and their friends were a rock group as well as amateur sleuths, and I think every episode had a music break like this:
One Time in a Million - The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys band: “Namby Pamby” (1969)
Not a chase though. And of course they made Chet the drummer.
I think what Czarcasm is looking for is something like this. (That’s a link to a YouTube video of a scene from Scooby-Doo featuring a song called “Pretty Mary Sunlight,” which was probably the best of these songs).
I associate them most strongly with the second season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! I don’t really recall similar songs being featured on other shows of the time.
Most of the Scooby-Doo songs were performed by a singer-songwriter named Austin Roberts, who also wrote or co-wrote a few of them. Believe it or not, there was a compilation album released. It was called Scooby-Doo’s Snack Tracks, and included not just those early “chase” songs, but also songs from various incarnations of the franchise, all the way up to The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. About which the less said, the better.