{"id":9334,"date":"2014-03-04T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2020-01-26T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:52:53","slug":"mr-peabody-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/mr-peabody-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Peabody on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time you remember, our heroes Rocky and Bullwinkle were cutting an original cast record! But little did they know that their composer had also made a record, and that half a century in the future, a Mr. Peabody and Sherman movie soundtrack album would be released as well! <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\"RockyBullwinkleLP-600\"\n

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ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS<\/strong>
\nTV\u2019s Original Cast Album<\/em>
\nGolden Records LP-67 (12\u201d 33 rpm \/ Mono \/ 1961)
\nLittle Golden Records 659 (Two Songs: 7\u201d45 rpm \/ 6\u201d 68 rpm \/ Mono \/1961)
\nPartial Reissue: Wonderland-Golden Records LP- 285 (12\u201d 33 rpm \/ Mono \/ 1972)<\/p>\n

Producers<\/strong>: Jay Ward Productions, Arthur Shimkin, Hudson Productions. Writer: Paul Parnes. Arranger\/Conductor<\/strong>: Dennis Farnon. Running Time: 34 minutes. <\/p>\n

Voices<\/strong>: June Foray (Rocky, Natasha, Red Riding Hood, Grandma); Bill Scott (Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody, Police Officer; Livingstone, Gidney); Paul Frees (Boris, Police Officer, Ponce DeLeon, Stanley, Cannibal); Walter Tetley (Sherman).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Songs:<\/strong> \u201cI Was Born to Be Airborne,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m Rocky\u2019s Pal,\u201d \u201cPeabody Here!\u201d \u201cThe No-Goodnik\u2019s Song,\u201d \u201cI Wanna Go Back,\u201d \u201cPeabody\u2019s History,\u201d \u201cMoon Man Mambo,\u201d \u201cYou Gotta Have a Crook,\u201d \u201cFractured Fairy Tales.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Soundtrack Segments<\/strong>: \u201cBullwinkle\u2019s Corner: Tom Tom The Piper\u2019s Son;\u201d \u201cBullwinkle\u2019s Corner: Peter Piper;\u201d \u201cPeabody\u2019s Improbable History\u201d: Ponce DeLeon;\u201d \u201cPeabody\u2019s Improbable History\u201d: Stanley and Livingstone;\u201d \u201cFractured Fairy Tale: Ridinghoods Anonymous.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is one Golden Record that sets the gold standard. June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, Walter Tetley, five cartoon soundtracks, a witty script worthy of Ward and bouncy original songs arranged and conducted by one the show\u2019s musical staff that has the same tone as the series music\u2014and a brisk pace that matches the cartoon style! What more could a Jay Ward fan want?<\/p>\n

\"Rocky_and_His_Friends_45_225\"<\/a>If one were to quibble, none of the themes or music cues from the actual Ward library are included. Quibble noted. But it\u2019s not a stretch to assume that, for a Golden Record, this had to be relatively expensive. It was recorded in LA, used the actual voice actors, a small orchestra, etc. Add in travel and expenses and you get an album that had to cost much, much more than Songs and Games of Fitness with Posture Pete<\/em>, which consisted of one narrator and a tiny circus calliope.<\/p>\n

New York songwriter Paul Parnes, whose music credits span over four decades and TV jingles include \u201cSnap, Crackle, Pop,\u201d is credited as writer, though the reflexive fourth-wall humor (\u201cAnd now, ten seconds of needle scratch\u2026\u201d) suggests that Scott and Ward did some tweaking. Parnes wrote songs and background music for a lot of early \u201860s Golden Records (included the highly recommended Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s Fairy Tales<\/em> Narrated by Danny Kaye, which is on CD).<\/p>\n

GIVE A LITTLE LISTEN<\/strong>
\nPeabody Medley<\/em>
\nPeabody and Sherman have the lion\u2019s share of the Rocky and His Friends album, with three songs (heard here) and two stories. Paul Parnes songs for the Rocky album are catchy and cute, sounding very much like some of the tunes on Golden\u2019s \u201cstudio cast\u201d album, Songs of Yogi Bear. (If you\u2019ve heard \u201cCutie of the Cave Set,\u201d it\u2019s akin to Sherman\u2019s \u201cI Wanna Go Back.\u201d)<\/p>\n