In the Little Rascals short “Hide and Shriek”, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Porky wind up in a Haunted Funhouse. In one scene, Buckwheat is sitting by an old organ waiting for the other two when a skeleton is lowered from the ceiling and it begins to “play” the organ.
The music is something I’ve heard elsewhere, and I think it was also “skeleton” related.
Anyone out there who can ID this music?
I believe that piece is Camille Saint-Saens Danse-Macbre, which I believe he used as part of the Fossils section from his Carnival of the Animals. There’s probably a file or two you can listen to on the internet.
No, that’s not it. The music I’m looking for is much slower.
Maybe it’s “Funeral March of a Marionette”. The same music was used as the opening theme for “The Alfred Hitchcock Show.”
Definitely not the same music as Alfred Hitchcock theme.
There’s definitely a second Little Rascals episode where they use the same music, though I don’t recall its title. It was one of those episodes where the kids put on a show. In this one, skeleton’s dance and at the end they appear to fly off into the ceiling.
Possibly: Edvard Grieg, March of the Trolls from Lyric Suite. It was used in the Disney Silly Symphony cartoon Skeleton Dance (1929), and the music may have become associated with skeletons.
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Not the one; good music though; I do appreciate the tries; just not the mystery piece.
Well, here’s a little trivia: the organ that Buckwheat backs into plays the same tune that accompanied the skeleton dance from Our Gang Follies of 1936 (1935).
Yes, thanks for the title of the other episode, I mentioned this in an earlier post; I just didn’t know the title.
But, we’re still stuck on the musical piece. Grrrrr! 
Do you have the Our Gang short on videotape or DVD? If so, you could make an MP3 file of the music, post it to the Web, and let us listen.
I do own the VHS and I’d like to do what you suggest, but I have no idea how/where to post an mp3 file, as I do not have my own site.
Any suggestions?
How to put audio files on the Internet.Now we need someone to volunteer space on their website.
Well actually I know how to record it and make an mp3 out of it, it was the hosting bit that I was speaking of… Of course I could email the file to any interested parties… 
Hosting 1 small mp3 file can be done just by setting up a default Yahoo web page and uploading the mp3 there. One small file shouldn’t run into the download bandwidth limit that quickly.
You can also try http://name-this-tune.com/. If you can tell whether the notes of the melody go up or down, specifying the Parsons code is easy.
“The Ghost Frolic” (Hatley)
Click the Hide and Shriek link to watch
http://heustess.com/episodes.htm
BTW, if anyone ever wants to have the complete source for “Our Gang” trivia, here’s the place to look. The chap who runs this site actually compiled if from the production notes and various other sources. (I’ve actually pointed it to the specific short “Hide and Shriek,” but he has tons of info on most of the shorts, which you can access from there by clicking on the link at the bottom.
Say what you will – if you post on this board, you will get an answer some day. It may take 7 years, but you will get an answer!
Wow! OP here - I had to do a double take when I saw this thread resurrected.
Nice to get an answer - many thanks!
I think I found what you are looking for Bob …
Scroll down to the next to last video. This is the “Big Show” performance I remember seeing as a kid.
Here it is on YouTube …
- YouTube!
One thing I could never figure out … these kids were poor … depression poor. So, where did they get the money to put on all these shows!?
I guess that’s what makes these shorts so much fun!