# Music you wouldn't know were it not for Looney Tunes. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432 "2014-01-22T03:56:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/21 "2014-01-22T14:35:39Z")
Hello My Baby Come back to Eireann I’m Just Wild About Harry Throw Him Down, McClosky Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone The Latin Quarter (with the lyrics “What is Your Order?”) Shuffle Off to Buffalo I Only Have Eyes for You Some of these I later heard elsewhere, but Looney Tunes were the start. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/22 "2014-01-22T14:36:07Z")
William Tell Overture. No, not the Lone Ranger part. The “morning” part. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xoBE69wdSkQ/hqdefault.jpg "ROSSINI: William Tell Overture (full version)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBE69wdSkQ) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/23 "2014-01-22T14:37:54Z")
_[Infernal Galop](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=okQRnHvw3is#t=107)_ from Jacques Offenbach’s \*Orpheus in the Underworld \* (starts at 1:47) ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/24 "2014-01-22T14:42:17Z")
How about all the armed forces Hymns? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/25 "2014-01-22T14:54:13Z")
“Arkansas Traveler” aka “[The Boggy Road To Millidgeville](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcibAFOU0Ik)” aka “I’m Bringing Home A Baby Bumble Bee”. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/26 "2014-01-22T14:56:41Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > William Tell Overture. > No, not the Lone Ranger part. The “morning” part. Indelibly associated in my mind with the image of [a half-drowned Popeye crawling out of the sewer.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMJrM80r50A) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/27 "2014-01-22T15:00:50Z")
[Carl Stalling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Stalling) composed/adapted/arranged the music for the Looney Tunes. Warner Bros had their own staff orchestra who were getting salaries whether they worked or not, so WB let the guys in the Termite Terrace make use of them. If you scroll down from my link, you’ll find a partial list of songs he adapted for cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/28 "2014-01-22T15:29:54Z")
One of my favorite parts of my developing opera fandom is being pleasantly surprised every time I’m enjoying a new-to-me opera and having some bit of music come up and thinking, “Oh, I recognize this from Bugs Bunny.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/29 "2014-01-22T15:34:07Z")
Merrie Melodies’ _I’m Wearin’ My Green Fedora (for Dora, for Dora)_; _Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes_; _I Love to Sing-A_, _It’s As Easy (As Falling Off A Log)_. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/30 "2014-01-22T15:34:37Z")
[Chopin’s Funeral March](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgw_RD_1_5I) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/31 "2014-01-22T15:49:37Z")
“The Irish Washerwoman” “My Gal Is a High-Born Lady” (an old vaudeville tune written by Barney Fagan) Bing Crosby’s “Rainy Night in Rio” ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/32 "2014-01-22T18:37:20Z")
I can’t help but be reminded of a fairly obscure old _Saturday Night Live_ fake television commercial from the episode that Jeremy Irons did. He was pitching a compilation of classical pieces that had been featured prominently in _Looney Tunes_. Kind of amusing, if only to get the opportunity to see Irons subverting his typically grave and dignified image by singing, “Kill the wabbit!” along with the accompanying Wagner selection. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/33 "2014-01-22T19:46:38Z")
“I want to sing-a about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a” Some that I think were based on real songs, but with changed lyrics? “I’m bringing home a baby bumble bee…” “La da da da da…abracadbra…” The boogie-woogie piano from Tom and Jerry (Jerry playing the bass notes, Tom joins in on the high notes) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/34 "2014-01-22T20:18:59Z")
No Camptown races? I believe that was Foghorn’s favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/35 "2014-01-22T21:43:49Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > “Rainy Night in Rio” I’ll just complement that with “Largo al Factotum” from Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”. The song that Giovanni Jones is trying to rehearse while Bugs plays the quoted song, which Giovanni starts to sing as well. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/36 "2014-01-22T21:45:28Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > “La da da da da…abracadbra…” “It’s Magic”- music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn Oh, and they often used the 1920’s standard “If I Could Be WIth You an Hour Tonight.” (Ricky ticky tucky…) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/37 "2014-01-22T21:52:49Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The Latin Quarter (with the lyrics “What is Your Order?”) They always used this one in episodes set in France- I never knew the title, until fairly recently. Another classic from Harry Warren. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/38 "2014-01-22T22:32:18Z")
“Those Endearing Young Charms,” except I have no idea what comes after the explosion. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/39 "2014-01-22T22:38:16Z")
Ah 😃 the music is one of the reasons I adore old cartoons - I really love the [old](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJkxNa6v14) [Betty](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhUCItCCQmQ) [Boop](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTzyL80IfYQ) stuff with Cab Calloway. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/40 "2014-01-22T22:47:35Z")
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