Re: Cartoon Musick

[John M. Relph <relph@presto.ig.com>]

hsu@eng.umd.edu (Dave "bd" Hsu) asks:

>Anybody have a review of the new CD of music from Warner Brothers cartoons
>from 1936-1952?

_The Carl Stalling Project_ is excellent.  Highly recommended.  The
sound quality is pretty good, considering the age of the source tapes.
Some of the pieces included are the soundtrack (sans voices) of entire
cartoons, some are medleys: pieces of different cartoons edited
together to make a piece with a certain theme.  There are also two
pieces of live studio recording, to show how the composer, arranger,
conductor, and musicians worked.

Someone tells me that the latest issue of ICE says that Warner Bros.
pressed up 6000 copies of special CD's of _The Carl Stalling Project_
which have the Merrie Melodies/Loonie Toons opening "set" printed on
them (the colored concentric circles that Bugs appears in at the
beginning).  These CD's were supposed to be promotional CDs but
accidentally got mixed up in the regular shipments.  The normal CDs
just have the standard black ink labels.

	-- John