# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/41 "2014-01-22T22:50:32Z")
Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 (Granny’s theme song) ---
**Author:** ![longPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@longPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longPath)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/42 "2014-01-23T00:59:41Z")
The Five O’clock Whistle (Little Red Riding Rabbit, 1944) ---
**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 23, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/43 "2014-01-23T01:17:37Z")
[The Streets of Cairo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npQUK_OJONA) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/44 "2014-01-23T15:46:54Z")
“Ahi, Viene La Conga” by Raúl Valdespí (You only THINK you don’t know this one!) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Okoh5HN1mo/hqdefault.jpg "Original Bugs Bunny conga line") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Okoh5HN1mo) ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/45 "2014-01-23T16:26:45Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > They always used this one in episodes set in France- I never knew the title, until fairly recently. > > Another classic from Harry Warren. That reminds me of “Louise” (every leetle breeze…) ---
**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 23, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/46 "2014-01-23T19:06:30Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 (Granny’s theme song) THAT’S WHAT IT IS!!! I have photo-copied sheet music for that song (the first movement) that I found but the title is cut off. You just solved an old mystery! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/47 "2014-01-23T20:05:52Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I still can’t hear “The Blue Danube” without going, “Quack quack. Quack quack.” Pepper Mill has said this as well. Actually, I probably would have encountered most of the classical music without the cartoons, but I probably wouldn’t know “Powerhouse”, “Blues in the Night”, “Moonlight Bay”, “Angel in Disguise”, or a lot of the other minor works and pop tunes without the Warner Brothers cartoons. I thought “Michigan Rag” (The Michigan J. Frog Song) – “Hello, my Baby, Hello, my Honey…” – was composed for the cartoon by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. If true, I certainly wouldn’t have heard it were it not for the cartoon (and Mel Brooks would have, either, so it wouldn’t be in _Spaceballs_). ---
**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 23, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/48 "2014-01-23T20:21:19Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I thought “Michigan Rag” (The Michigan J. Frog Song) – “Hello, my Baby, Hello, my Honey…” – was composed for the cartoon by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. Nope > **[Hello! Ma Baby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello!_Ma_Baby)** > > "Hello! Ma Baby" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1899 by the songwriting team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson, known as "Howard and Emerson". Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone. At the time, telephones were relatively novel, present in fewer than 10% of U.S. households, and this was the first well-known song to refer to the device. Additionally, the word "Hello" itself was primarily associated with telephone use after Edison's utterance—b The song... _“Hello! Ma Baby” is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1899 by the team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson (“Howard and Emerson”). Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone; it was the first well-known song to refer to the telephone.[1] The song was first recorded by Arthur Collins on Edison 5470._ ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/49 "2014-01-23T20:32:26Z")
This has probably been named up-thread, but I don’t know the title, only the line, which cracks me up every time I think of it. I think of it every time I bump my head and sing it after I stop cursing. “I dream of Jeanie, she’s a light brown hare.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/50 "2014-01-23T20:38:09Z")
All together now: “Mammy’s little baby loves shortenin’, shortenin’ Mammy’s little baby loves shortenin’ bread!” (I’ve ONLY heard that song in cartoons.) Also… is there a title to that Russian dance tune you always heard in cartoons? “Duh duh duh duh duh duuuuh, Duh duh duh duh duh duh… HEY!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/51 "2014-01-23T20:53:05Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > This has probably been named up-thread, but I don’t know the title, only the line, which cracks me up every time I think of it. I think of it every time I bump my head and sing it after I stop cursing. > “I dream of Jeanie, she’s a light brown hare.” Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is another Stephen Foster song. From 1854 > **[Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_with_the_Light_Brown_Hair)** > > "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864), published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1854. Foster wrote the song with his estranged wife Jane McDowell in mind. The lyrics allude to a permanent separation. > "Jeanie" was a notorious beneficiary of the ASCAP boycott of 1941, a dispute caused by ASCAP increasing its licensing fees. During this period, radio broadcasters played only public-domain music or songs licensed by ASCAP rival BMI. According to a 194... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/52 "2014-01-23T20:55:18Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Nope > > [Hello! Ma Baby - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello!_Ma_Baby) > > _“Hello! Ma Baby” is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1899 by the team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson (“Howard and Emerson”). Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone; it was the first well-known song to refer to the telephone.[1] The song was first recorded by Arthur Collins on Edison 5470._ I’m half right, half wrong. “Michigan Rag” was indeed co-written by Jones and Maltese: > [@](#): > > “The Michigan Rag” > Words and Music by Milt Franklyn, Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones, written for the cartoon But it’s not the "Hello my Baby song. My error is conflating the two. Until now, I thought "Hello my Baby WAS “The Michigan Rag”. > **[One Froggy Evening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Froggy_Evening)** > > One Froggy Evening is a 1955 American Technicolor animated musical short film written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones, with musical direction by Milt Franklyn. The short, partly inspired by a 1944 Cary Grant film entitled Once Upon a Time involving a dancing caterpillar in a small box, marks the debut of Michigan J. Frog: an anthropomorphic frog with a talent for singing and dancing that he demonstrates for no one except whoever possesses the box wherein he resides. This popular... ---
**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 23, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/53 "2014-01-23T21:01:30Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > “It’s Magic”- music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn Awesome, thanks! There’s that Carmen Miranda song (foreign lyrics) when Bugs is hiding in the fruit in her hair. Anyone know that one? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/54 "2014-01-23T22:20:50Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Awesome, thanks! > > There’s that Carmen Miranda song (foreign lyrics) when Bugs is hiding in the fruit in her hair. Anyone know that one? That was “Sambiana,” written by Nestor Amaral, a composer and bandleader who worked a lot with the real Camen Miranda. I’ve never heard it anywhere but in the cartoon “Slick Hare.” ---
**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 23, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/55 "2014-01-23T22:23:54Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Awesome, thanks! > > There’s that Carmen Miranda song (foreign lyrics) when Bugs is hiding in the fruit in her hair. Anyone know that one? [Classic scene.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjeveGthEYk) According to imdb it’s _Sambiana_. Only found an instramental version on YouTube but it [sounds about right](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuk51KfxS3k). ETA Beat me to it! ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/56 "2014-01-24T00:46:31Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > William Tell Overture. > No, not the Lone Ranger part. The “morning” part. > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBE69wdSkQ&t=6m10s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBE69wdSkQ&t=6m10s) For me, that’s not associated with Looney Tunes, but rather [Bambi vs. Godzilla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wUdetAAlY). ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/57 "2014-01-25T02:08:36Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > All together now: > > “Mammy’s little baby loves shortenin’, shortenin’ > Mammy’s little baby loves shortenin’ bread!” > > (I’ve ONLY heard that song in cartoons.) > > Also… is there a title to that Russian dance tune you always heard in cartoons? > > “Duh duh duh duh duh duuuuh, > Duh duh duh duh duh duh… HEY!” I remember two possibilities: a speed up “Song of the Volga Boatmen” (I remember the “Gremlins From the Kremlin” using the tune when sabotaging Hitler’s plane.) > **[The Song of the Volga Boatmen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Volga_Boatmen)** > > The "Song of the Volga Boatmen" (known in Russian as Эй, ухнем! \[Ey, ukhnyem!, "Yo, heave-ho!"\], after the refrain) is a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev and published in his book of folk songs in 1866. It was sung by burlaks, or barge-haulers, on the Volga River. Balakirev published it with only one verse (the first). The other two verses were added at a later date. Ilya Repin's famous painting Barge Haulers on the Volga depicts such burlaks in Tsarist Russia to Th... > [@](#): > > (known in Russian as Эй, ухнем! [Ey, ukhnem!, “yo, heave-ho!”], after the refrain) is a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev, and published in his book of folk songs in 1866.[1] [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JMYsrZQjlf0/hqdefault.jpg "The Song of the Volga Boatmen (English Subtitles)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMYsrZQjlf0) The second: Carl Starling (the legendary composer for the Looney Tunes) used the speed up as inspiration to create an original funny “Cossack Kick” dance sound alike. ---
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> [@Cayuga](#): > > “Those Endearing Young Charms,” except I have no idea what comes after the explosion. Whenever I hear it done right it sounds wrong. ---
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Did I miss someone saying “Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna” by von Suppé? ---
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> [@Ponch8](#): > > Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 (Granny’s theme song) I love to imagine what fun Chico (Leonard) Marx would have had playing that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432.md?page=4)