The *Turandot * score, perhaps?
A fourth apart. Not a fifth.
I tried posting this a day or so ago and the hamsters ate it, so here we go again:
What is the name of the main Warner Bros. cartoon theme song? It’s the big orchestral number we hear every time right at the beginning when the WB logo zooms in at us accompanied by the steel guitar slide. I know it’s not “Merry Go Round Broke Down” - they use that for the “Merrie Melodies” intro afterwards.
Bonus points if you can sing the words to the “Bugs Bunny” theme!
would that be:
Overture!
Curtain! Lights!
This is it!
Tonight’s the night!
No more rehearsing and hearsing a part
We know every part by heart
Overture!
Curtain! Lights!
This is it!
We’ll hit the heights!
And oh what heights we’ll hit
On with the show, this is it!
do i get a prize?
That’s not the theme I was looking for. This one’s a bit more obscure. You hear the theme when it’s a Bugs Bunny cartoon - you know, you see Bugs lying on the marquee with his name on it, and there’s a snappy little theme to go with it.
That one.
Would that be the “What’s Up Doc?” song…
What’s up doc
What’s cookin’
What’s up doc
Are ya lookin’ for Bugs Bunny bunting
Bugsy’s gone a-hunting
Gone to get a rabbit skin but now the rabbit’s gone again
What’s up doc
What’s cookin’
Hey! Look out! Stop!
You’re gonna hurt someone with that old shotgun
Hey, what’s up Doc.
(and it’s “no more rehearsing and nursing a part…”)
Looking for the answer to the question about the WB theme, I did a search on Amazon for the Carl Stallings Project – the album of music from WB cartoons - and got no hits. WTF??
You mean:
Dun dundun dun duh duh duh, dun dun dun dun duuuun…dun dun dun dun, dun duuuuuu-uuuu-uuun!
Often leading into
What’s up doc? What’s cooking?
What’s up doc? Are ya looking
for Bugs Bunny bunting, doc has gone a hunting
to find a little baby skin to wrap the baby bunny in…
Ok, my version is a little…disturbing
When I was a kid, a friend (and now fellow Doper) and I always dreamed of sneaking duck calls in to a symphony concert, and breaking them out when that part of ‘William Tell’ was played.
That’s the one, Max. Since I’m a magnanimous kinda guy, I split these tasty, chocolate-covered bonus points between you and jsc1953 for pulling the rabbit out of the hat, so to speak.
How about the ‘sailor’ music?
You know, it sounds like an old sea chanty.
A snippet of it is played at the end of the instrumental version of the theme music for the 1950s ‘Popeye’ cartoons (right after the second time where the words would be, “I’m Popeye the sailor man!”)
That’s the “College Hornpipe”, and any fiddler who deals with Scotch/Irish music probably knows it quite well. It’s all over the KFS Popeye cartoon theme, not just at that particular point. You can hear it at the beginning of Popeye’s theme song in the old Fleischer cartoons as well.
Do not confuse it with the “Sailor’s Hornpipe”, which is an entirely different and much lesser-known beast.
are you by chance referring to The Sailor’s Hornpipe?
Huh… my “1000 Fiddle Tunes” book calls it the College Hornpipe. Guess there’s no real definitive answer on this one.
And before anybody asks:
The Irish music, usually accompanied by dancing Irishmen and/or leprechauns, is The Irish Washer Woman.
Were you also tempted to sneak coconut halves into the concert, so that you could make horse galloping noises during that other part of the William Tell overture?
While we are here, can anyone tell me what the music piece they seem to use in every Horror movie preview or ‘Dark Action’ movie preview (Van Helsing, Underworld). It is a choral piece, sung very hard with accompanyment. Apparently in Latin and seesaws fairly quickly between two notes for a while.
Up, down, up, down, up, down, up,up,up.
It almost sounds like it should be from Orff’s Carmina Burane (but is not O Fortuna).
Any clues?
Actually, our plan called for one of us to don a mask, burst into the concert hall and run through the aisles with cap guns blazing. (We didn’t have a horse).
Those of us who watched Bozo The Clown* in our larval stages will forever asociate the tune with him. Each show would start with him marching into the studio at the head of a procession, banging on a big bass drum, while the “Clown Music” played in the background.
*Speaking of Bozo I loved that Seinfeld bit where he wonders why they need to specify that he’s Bozo the clown, as opposed to Bozo the Certified Public Accountant.
I know the one you mean, but can’t place it definitively (my WAG is the Verdi Requiem, the Dies Irae of which is another horror favorite).