1949-51: Another Decade, Still Looney
By the early 1950’s the need to plug Warner songs wasn’t as drastic as in the past.
By the early 1950’s the need to plug Warner songs wasn’t as drastic as in the past.
The 1948-49 season proved a bit more musically rich than some in recent memory at Termite Terrace.
Some further musical highlights from a little over two seasons of Looney Tunes, featuring the Warner gang at their peak.
Four select Snafus with something new musically to say – then a pair from the short lived Naval counterpart series, Seaman Hook.
Leon Schlesinger’s studio contribution to the war-effort, contained in the monthly “Army-Navy Screen Magazine”, was Private Snafu -the quintessential Army screw-up.
With this week’s chapter we’re going to start tightening up our format, listing select titles in order of appearance, irrespective of series banner.
There were only a dozen Looney Tunes cartoons produced this season… and some of those were now released in Technicolor.
Continuing with the Merrie Melodies for 1942, as the mood sways from the traditional to some periodic patriotic flag-waving.
Carl Stalling continued to fold songs – both old and new – into the scores of the WB cartoons.
The background music in the Looney Tunes during the 1940-41 season, at a time when the world seemed to want comedy – and escapism.