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Powerhouse (2:53)

Cover of Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights

From Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights and 11 other releases

Aka Powerhouse (Raymond Scott Quintette).

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  • Pdna2

    This and other similar jazz-influenced Raymond Scott pieces were not composed for cartoons. But Warner Bros. Cartoons used them--and to great effect. Had we not grown up with these pieces and associated them with cartoons, they would probably sound pretty strange. Similarly, Scott's electronic masterpieces were used (in the 50s) for TV/Radio ads. But since most of us either never heard the ads or forgot them, they sound extremely innovative and fresh and are categorized as avant-garde/early electronic music. Being embraced by mass-culture is double-edged, I guess. But if you listen to this stuff without thinking about the 'toons, they may reveal themselves to you as strange little gems.

    21 Jan 2011 Reply

  • BreezinAlong

    I rather like this ...

    18 Jan 2011 Reply

  • mintonmedia

    Still depressed about missing the documentary about him at Cinefamily. Hope they'll repeat the evening.

    4 Sep 2010 Reply

  • Thorpe

    Honey, I Shrunk the Kids main theme is similar to this.

    12 Jun 2010 Reply

  • Zytrock

    Yep! Funny :D

    8 Jun 2010 Reply

  • urizen81

    Just heard this used in the Simpsons episode Little Big Girl (ep 390) :)

    8 Jun 2010 Reply

  • SonicGojira

    reminds me of some kind of chase ending in a fight or something. Its very fun to listen to

    30 Mar 2010 Reply

  • MinkCote

    mindblowing

    5 Mar 2010 Reply

  • DOOMism

    so this is the father of them all.

    14 Feb 2010 Reply

  • dzoist

    cheerios anyone?

    30 Jan 2010 Reply

  • gmpwca

    I still can't hear this without picturing an assembly line at a bomb factory in a Bugs Bunny cartoon

    26 Jan 2010 Reply

  • quiptiq

    This song was used in a cartoon -- the Ren & Stimpy wrestling episode.

    8 Nov 2009 Reply

  • sideBe

    it is like a cartoon soundtrack. hehe. (said the clown)

    28 Sep 2009 Reply

  • MaunderandJape

    All you clowns can come up with are cartoons and Soul Coughing!?

    23 Sep 2009 Reply

  • MaunderandJape

    AWESOM AWSOME pure genious Decades ahead of his time

    23 Sep 2009 Reply

  • LondonLouis

    As a habitue of the old News/Cartoon theatres, I'm going to have to poke around Scott's work. The people behind those Loony Tunes cartoons got some serious artists involved.

    9 Aug 2009 Reply

  • sideBe

    bus of belzebub!

    3 Aug 2009 Reply

  • isabelzaragoza

    :o :D ;P

    30 Jun 2009 Reply

  • chichilatte

    it makes me want a pair of spats and a mazaratti

    5 Jun 2009 Reply

  • Prismatik

    :-)

    1 Jun 2009 Reply
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