Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies

Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
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Dear Cecil,

In your excellent column on Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, you note that:

However, there are numerous examples of the opposite theme songs being used in each series.

The original Looney Tunes theme The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin can be heard on such Merrie Melodies as Putty Tat Trouble, The Ducksters, Fast and Furry-ous and Canned Feud, for example.

The Merrie Melodies theme, Merrily We Roll Along by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor can be heard on Looney Tunes as well. For Scent-imental Reasons is an example.

Further trivia: The original Looney Tunes, Bosko and Honey, starred for a brief time in MGM’s Happy Harmonies series.

2

I am shocked and dismayed that not a single Doper, nor His Majestic Perfectitude himself, finds the obscure details of cartoonular musicology to be as fascinating and worthy of nitpickery as I.

:frowning:

Fie on you, scoundrels and dilettantes!

3

We were just awed into speechlessness by your display of knowledge, and thus unable to respond.
:smiley:

4

Scoundrels? Perhaps. Perhaps even likely.

For dilettantes, you may need a mirror. (You know the specific episodes where closing credit music is played? Even the word dilettante does not do you justice.)

5

Just to show how truly ignorant I was, I was under the impression that every one of those Warner Brothers cartoons started with “Merrily we Roll Along” and ended with “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down”.

But in my defense, I did know the words to the latter even before I read Cecil’s column.

6

Actually I was referring to the opening credit music. And I’m not so much of a loser that I knew it offhand; I meticulously searched through my various Looney Tunes DVDs for the exceptions that I knew were there.

I swear.

7

Bosko? Honey? I thought I knew my LT pretty well, but I am obviously in the presence of masters.

This is all the more reason I need the LT collection DVD set.
:cool:

RR