# Help me ID "skeleton" music from the Little Rascals **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450 "2004-01-14T20:59:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/1 "2004-01-14T20:59:06Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/2 "2004-01-14T21:30:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/3 "2004-01-14T22:58:10Z")
> [@Papermache Prince](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/4 "2004-01-14T23:13:08Z")
Maybe it’s “Funeral March of a Marionette”. The same music was used as the opening theme for “The Alfred Hitchcock Show.” ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/5 "2004-01-14T23:31:09Z")
> [@quiltguy154](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/6 "2004-01-15T02:56:27Z")
Possibly: Edvard Grieg, _[March of the Trolls](http://schubertpub.bizland.com/preview/ahs_lyric4.html)_ from _Lyric Suite_. It was used in the Disney Silly Symphony cartoon _Skeleton Dance_ (1929), and the music may have become associated with skeletons. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/7 "2004-01-15T03:09:05Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Possibly: Edvard Grieg, _[March of the Trolls](http://schubertpub.bizland.com/preview/ahs_lyric4.html)_ from _Lyric Suite_. It was used in the Disney Silly Symphony cartoon _Skeleton Dance_ (1929), and the music may have become associated with skeletons. I’ll repost this… Not the one; good music though; I do appreciate the tries; just not the mystery piece. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/8 "2004-01-15T03:21:28Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/9 "2004-01-15T11:04:42Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > 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! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/10 "2004-01-15T18:44:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/11 "2004-01-15T21:02:35Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/12 "2004-01-15T21:12:08Z")
[How to put audio files on the Internet.](http://www.auburn.edu/truthseekers/audio/audiomake/audio.html)Now we need someone to volunteer space on their website. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/13 "2004-01-15T21:29:20Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > [How to put audio files on the Internet.](http://www.auburn.edu/truthseekers/audio/audiomake/audio.html)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… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/14 "2004-01-15T22:42:46Z")
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/](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. ---
**Author:** ![diggerc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@diggerc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerc)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/15 "2011-08-22T05:03:03Z")
“The Ghost Frolic” (Hatley) ---
**Author:** ![diggerc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@diggerc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerc)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/16 "2011-08-22T05:11:45Z")
Click the Hide and Shriek link to watch [http://heustess.com/episodes.htm](http://heustess.com/episodes.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/17 "2011-08-22T16:46:41Z")
BTW, if anyone ever wants to have the complete source for “Our Gang” trivia, [here’s the place](http://theluckycorner.com/rmt/169.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/18 "2011-08-22T16:50:43Z")
> [@diggerc](#): > > “The Ghost Frolic” (Hatley) 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! ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/19 "2011-08-23T15:35:30Z")
Wow! OP here - I had to do a double take when I saw this thread resurrected. Nice to get an answer - many thanks! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bellucci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@John\_Bellucci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bellucci)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450/20 "2011-11-01T04:31:48Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > 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 … > **[Home - OVGuide](https://ovguide.com/)** > > \[et\_pb\_section fb\_built=”1″ custom\_padding\_last\_edited=”on|phone” admin\_label=”Hero section” \_builder\_version=”4.16″ background\_color=”#674cad” background\_color\_gradient\_direction=”127deg”... 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 … [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjSGDraUWGo&feature=player\_embedded#](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjSGDraUWGo&feature=player_embedded#)! 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! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-skeleton-music-from-the-little-rascals/224450.md?page=2)