Sunday, November 04, 2007

A Merrie Mash-Up

The new Looney Tunes DVD set includes some 1962 audio outtakes of proposed new arrangements of "Merrily We Roll Along" for the studio's new Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies titles. (Milt Franklyn, the studio's longtime orchestrator/composer, died not long after recording these new arrangements and they weren't used for the titles that were finally created.) I thought I'd have a go at combining one of these arrangements with the new LT/MM titles that were adopted in 1964. Note, however, that this is not how they would have actually gone together; for one thing, the title they finally used is a lot shorter, so I had to extend it to make the music and titles fit together.



3 comments:

  1. This beats the heck out of what they actually ended up using. It's too bad Milt Franklyn didn't live longer.

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  2. Anonymous8:57 PM

    Man, this "new" arrangement is genius! Too good for those DFE cartoons.

    The arragement they ended up using indicated the quality of the cartoons they were making. When I was a kid, as soon as I'd hear that DFE tune I'd rush to change the channel.

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  3. As I noted over at TTTP, you can take Carl Stalling's child-like rendition of "The Merrie Go Round Broke Down" from Avery's 1941 cartoon "Porky's Preview" and paste the audio over the modern LT opening almost perfectly (it's a little shorter than the actual visual, but the hard musical notes Stalling uses at the opening mix particularly well with the W-7 Arts revised opening, and by 1967, the childlike music Carl wrote as a parody kind of fits the Hanna-Barbera style characters Alex Lovy was using).

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