# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**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 25, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/61 "2014-01-25T06:57:17Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 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!” > [@GIGObuster](#): > > 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.) It’s definitely not a sped-up “Volga Boatmen”. I know what **astorian** ’s referring to, and the comparison is a huge stretch. It sounds like some hopak or trepak. > [@Ponch8](#): > > Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 (Granny’s theme song) I can’t find a Granny cartoon, but are you sure the music used isn’t from Raymond Scott’s adaptation of the Mozart, titled “In an 18th Century Drawing Room” (which I have definitely heard in other Looney Toons)? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmK0Dt6LeI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmK0Dt6LeI) ---
**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, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/62 "2014-01-25T09:47:12Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > It’s definitely not a sped-up “Volga Boatmen”. I know what **astorian** ’s referring to, and the comparison is a huge stretch. It sounds like some hopak or trepak. [I think it is the same music bit you are thinking about](http://www.televisiontunes.com/Bugs_Bunny_-_Hare_Tonic_-_Russian_Dance.html), I based my reply on this past thread: > **[what's that iconic Russian riff/song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=562670)** > > Inspired by the “Turning Japanese” classic “Oriental” song. Anybody know what that piece of Russian music is where it goes in descending steps: Dum Dum Dum Dum Dumdumdum Dum Dumdumdumdum & ends with the (male) dancers yelling “Hey!”. I’m... That I remembered wrong :smack:, the Volga reference was not the correct one, so I prefer the second choice, I do remember that Termite Terrace was capable of composing tunes when needed, as in _One Froggy Evening_, the song the _Michigan Rag_ was not an old tune, it was made for the short by Milt Franklyn, Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones. > **[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... There is still a third choice as mentioned by the posters on that thread: That Carl Stalling grabbed it from stock music. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/63 "2014-01-25T16:12:32Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Did I miss someone saying “Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna” by von Suppé? From “Baton Bunny”! I actually just heard that piece on a local classical radio station yesterday afternoon, and kept imagining I heard the little fly buzzing around! ---
**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 27, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/64 "2014-01-27T16:48:32Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > [I think it is the same music bit you are thinking about](http://www.televisiontunes.com/Bugs_Bunny_-_Hare_Tonic_-_Russian_Dance.html), I based my reply on this past thread: > > [what's that iconic Russian riff/song? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=562670) That fits better than [Brahm’s Hungarian Dance No 5](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9LvC9WkkQ) which was my first guess. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/65 "2014-01-27T18:08:34Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > It’s definitely not a sped-up “Volga Boatmen”. I know what **astorian** ’s referring to, and the comparison is a huge stretch. It sounds like some hopak or trepak. Bullwinkle sang it once as Little Tommy Tucker: "Russian dressing?!? \*Tomatoes, beets, and turnips, we use to make it red, HEY! Put it on your salad and you’ll wish that you were dead! HEY!\*" ---
**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 27, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/66 "2014-01-27T23:04:37Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I can’t find a Granny cartoon, but are you sure the music used isn’t from Raymond Scott’s adaptation of the Mozart, titled “In an 18th Century Drawing Room” (which I have definitely heard in other Looney Toons)? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmK0Dt6LeI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmK0Dt6LeI) I’m pretty sure it’s not the adaptation. ---
**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 28, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-wouldnt-know-were-it-not-for-looney-tunes/679432/67 "2014-01-28T01:31:59Z")
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