Showing posts with label Capitol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capitol. Show all posts

Friday, September 2, 2022

A return to this page with some more stock cue identification!!

 Two years after I last visited, some major things happened..largely, we moved from Whittier cal. to a real..wait for it..HORSE town..Norco,Cali.Sadly my little dog died,and such...but anyway Yowp on Yowp (JG Bennie, also of Tralfaz fame, Vancouver BC) has gotten hold of information about a few cues..heard on Clokey and Hanna-Barbera Prods.shows.

A number of Jack Shaindlin's, as well as Raoul Krausshar and Winston Sharples cues, had been written specifically, as a lot know, for various proeducitons. But Jack's cues,nlike the others, date back to the forgotten SHORTY THE CHIMP live theatrical series which was, about..uh, a chimp.

First information on a few that are Jack Shaindlin cues. HOW NOT TO TRAP LIONS, after the opening title, uses Jack's LAF 72-3 for the campy sad lion music, just like Hanna-Barbera had used it..not on Clokey to my knowledge but n Hanna-Barbera shows a lot is another Shaindlin cue, the chase LAF 1-2. It's in Augie and Daddy Doggie's MARS LITTLE PRECIOUS, basically a Doggie Daddy short with DD babysitting Augie's little friend Boinga Boinga, a martian who runs outn at one point,. and LAF-1-2. plays. A circus march piece appears in Pixie and Dixie (as LAF-1-18 and elsewhere as LAF 6-16) .

Also, as of 8/23/29:(From yowpyowp.blogspot.com)

That happy Western cue as Pokey in cameo stands in a higher place in Gumby's dream in 1958's "THE GGS AND TRIXIE" and its 1962 edit "EDD TROUBLE", just happens to be a Sam Fox cue (also in Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw MCGraw), SF-11 SUSANNA HOEDOWN, by one Jacob Louis Detur. So THAT's another composer identified. 😂

A few includi2ng the first being on a few DAVEY AND GOLIATH's..one DOWN ON THE FARM anhim go run away to a circus, is a WAH WAH creepy cue used with LAF-72-3 above in Huckleberry Hound's 1961 NUTTS OVER MUTTS, It's Raoul Kraushaar (Omar)'s 7-MR-177. Another that appears in Hanna-Barbera and Clampett (Snowball)'s classic 1960s BEANY cartoon sometimes if 8-MR-777.


Here's some Winston Sharples (Scroll) pieces ID''d..as in Felix the Cat, all from late 50s-60s.

King Features Syndicate Television's first Paramount Cartoon Popeye, HITS AND MISSILES, originated the pieces that are in FtC as far back as 1959(?)'s VENUS AND THE MASTER CYLINDER in the middle..the swooping chase music (almost like Raymond Scott's POWERHOUSE!), and the weird da-DA-DA-DAda...and the DaDAda Felix chase that ended up with a weird stunned effect...


A cute little bounce cue was in the Modern Madcap 1960, with some very inventive animation, BOUNCING BENNY. It's used in PEP PILL and BIG BROWNIE with Felix, Poindexter, and the Professor (and the second introducing Big Brownie and Rancher Bart.)

That's really all now, but I have something real great..activity on my other blogs, without even any backlogged rough drafts (LOL) and video links! Take care, happy two new years.


Monday, February 22, 2010

BILL LOOSE: A legacy of music, delivered fresh or canned.

Ah..February 22. In the entertainment world, this is the anniverary of..
Births
Sheldon Leonard [1907-1997]
Drew Barrymore [1975-]
EVEN
THIS
Deaths
Bill Loose [1910-1991]
Chuck Jones [1912-2002]

Here we deal with one Bill Loose, head stock composer of Capitol, who passed away 19 years ago in 1991 on this date. Born Detroit Michigan on June 5, in 1911 according to some references but in 1910 for others, and that's who I go by, he had the usual rise to prominence working in vairous 30s-40s orchestras. Around the bend of radio to television Mr.L apparently accepted a job at the British arm of the pioneering Sam Fox Library, whose music is controlled now by Carlin NY/UK and joined alliances with Oakland native JohN Seely, both of whom apparently contributed a lot of cues attributed to them, and many more just by Loose. For more, go here.

Capitol had started as detailed here two major early radio music libaries. The second of these was called MuTel [Music for Television], ergo TV HAD to have been a group of clients but what researcher Paul Mandell of New York says, far from it.[See last link above, repeated below.]

Around this time, John Serly had joined the Capitol staff and eventually lured Bill Loose at some point, and more outside music publishing and recording/releasing firms more and more grew, the Capitol distribution deals got made more, and the label created its third, and more importantly, first ORIGINAL music library, with complete date of Bill Loose's entry not exactly known, but it IS known that it's who Seely hired as major composer, and then other composers [George Hormel, Herschel Burke Gilbert, Spencer Moore, Emil Cadkin, etc.,etc.,etc., to cop a classic Yul Brynner musical quote] and the licensing of other libaries [both the Capitol, now called Hi-Q, and other labels like Omar and Langlois] took place and was soon finalized. For more got to same link as above.Loose died in 1991 on this date [February 22--btw Pebbles Flintstone was born on this date in 1963..too]