He pulls out a cork in the barrel and the sound comes blaring out. Being a cartoon, we have to see the sound, which appears in multi-coloured lines.
The musical fleas are on John Pettybone (played by Droopy, played by Bill Thompson), who jumps out of the barrel and it’s on to the next scene.
One wonders what MGM musical director Scott Bradley thought of being allowed to come up with a Dixieland style underscore instead of having to use ancient favourites of Avery like “My Old Kentucky Home.” (The ASCAP database confirms Bradley wrote the “Dixieland Droopy Signature Main Title” as well as the cartoon’s cues).
Avery’s animators were Mike Lah, Grant Simmons and Walt Clinton. Ed Benedict designed the cartoon with Joe Montell painting the backgrounds.
Despite the copyright, the Dixieland underscore sure sounds to me like "Tiger Rag." It kills, though!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how that works. You can change a few notes (or sample) and it's a new song to submit to BMI or ASCAP. Bob Cobert did it with the To Tell the Truth theme and Bill Loose did it with the Hollywood Squares theme.
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ReplyDeleteThis one always struck me as an unusual one for Avery and for how he used Droopy. But the scene where the fleas take five, have their cigarettes, and then jump back onto Droopy one by one, with more music as each picks up his instrument, is a classic.
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