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The Carl Stalling Project (Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958
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EAN : 9786301757065
UPC : 075992602747
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 24 reviews)
Our Price : $9.99
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For fans of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, et al., this is the essential cartoon soundtrack as well as a monument to surrealism. During his 22 years as a composer for Warner Bros. animated shorts, Stalling invented the musical vocabulary of cartoons. Producer Hal Willner has lovingly assembled a sonic collage that showcases Stalling's compositional genius and uncanny ability to borrow a tune. It's a whirling collection of random moments, chock full of music you never knew you knew, from Bugs Bunny's theme from "Rabbit Fire" to Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" to Stalling's own "Woo! Woo!" Also included in the mix: outtakes from recording sessions, and several complete scores. --Heidi MacDonald |
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Big Fun |
I heard excerpts from this album when it was first released years ago and had forgotten about it. A few weeks ago I was listening to NPR and they were interviewing an artist who referenced Mr. Stalling's work. Luckily this album is available for downloading.
It is better than I remember. It is really amazing how good these performances are, and how hearing the music will both conger up the images of the Loony Tunes cartoons, and make you smile, even when you can't place the picture. |
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I Can't Review it Because I Never Received It! |
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Great memories! |
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Great memories of the cartoons I watched as a youngster. Tidbits of melodies that will always depict a certain cartoon or character. Good stuff! |
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Best compilation CD ever |
Carl Stalling gave me the best musical education I ever had. I'm spending the rest of my life learning the titles and composers of all the hundreds of tunes I first heard in his cartoon scores. I've had this CD ever since it came out, and it still is one of my favorites.
Only a handful of tracks are a complete score from one cartoon; most are snippets from several cartoons edited together with a common theme.
This CD is about a composer and his music, more than about the cartoons for which he composed it. To drive home this point, it includes the score from, of all things, 1939's "The Good Egg." No one would consider "The Good Egg" to be among the best Warner cartoons, but the score, heard by itself, turns out to be a tour de force that is highly representative of Stalling's work. That's what makes this CD such a great listening experience: It was pieced together by musicologists who chose the music based on its auditory qualities, and not on the relative fame of the cartoon associated with it. It is not merely a trip down memory lane (although it is that, too), but is a great creative work in its own right.
Despite the vast amount of Stalling music that exists, this CD provides as ambitious and exhaustive an overview as can be given, and its 1995 follow-up, while also worth having, is but a pale afterthought. There's no following this act. |
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Here we go. |
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This CD features music from the Warner Brothers cartoon film scores by Carl Stalling. There are some complete scores and also some "medleys", with clips from various cartoons strung together. Carl Stalling was a master at writing music for cartoons, but something is lost when you just hear the music without seeing the cartoon. |
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