Funny musical memory from chldhood.
virtualdean
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For those of us of a certain age that grew up in the Pre VHS pre digital age, when vinyl was all and cartoons were the province of Saturday mornings ONLY.
I remember watching Bugs Bunny and others. Often the humor was adult oriented based on current events. Remember The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Boris and Natasha?
Anyway there is one Bugs Bunny episode where he gets back at this Opera Singer who is bullying him. A Pavarotti stuck up kind of guy. So Bugs dresses up in a conductor outfit with long swept back gray hair and crashes the performance at the Hollywood Bowl as a guest conductor.\
The crowd is shocked! An emminent conductor himself! you hear whispers of
"Its Leopold! Leopold! Look! Leopold is here!"...
I was a kid and it meant nothing to me. I just wanted Bugs to kick ****.
Bugs proceeds to wrack the orchestra through incredible musical gyrations and gets his revenge.
So, present day...I like to cruise the sacd listings on amazon and pick something that interests me. I don't know classical except for a few of the more famous performances..I order a bunch not knowing what they are. They get in.
I play a living stereo,, performance from 1960 sacd. Rhapsodies..
The picture on the front is some old gray haired man with his longish hair swept up and back over his head..
He looks familiar somehow.
I play it..the first "tune" is familiar...I perk up.
I instantly recognize it...Images of Bugs Bunny float to the surface.
What! Am I farther down the road to senility than I thought?
I grab the disc..Read it..performed in 1960 and 61..About the time the Bugs cartoons were being made...
Conductor....LEOPOLD Stokowski..the hair is exactly the same..It could be Bugs there. I laughed.
Now some of you classical folks will point and say, "Look at that Philistine!"
He couldn't tell a rhapsody from a Baroque Horn ensemble..\
You'd be right and so what?
Its funny how a cartoon show can plant a seed of musical appreciation that doesn't take root for decades!:D
I remember watching Bugs Bunny and others. Often the humor was adult oriented based on current events. Remember The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Boris and Natasha?
Anyway there is one Bugs Bunny episode where he gets back at this Opera Singer who is bullying him. A Pavarotti stuck up kind of guy. So Bugs dresses up in a conductor outfit with long swept back gray hair and crashes the performance at the Hollywood Bowl as a guest conductor.\
The crowd is shocked! An emminent conductor himself! you hear whispers of
"Its Leopold! Leopold! Look! Leopold is here!"...
I was a kid and it meant nothing to me. I just wanted Bugs to kick ****.
Bugs proceeds to wrack the orchestra through incredible musical gyrations and gets his revenge.
So, present day...I like to cruise the sacd listings on amazon and pick something that interests me. I don't know classical except for a few of the more famous performances..I order a bunch not knowing what they are. They get in.
I play a living stereo,, performance from 1960 sacd. Rhapsodies..
The picture on the front is some old gray haired man with his longish hair swept up and back over his head..
He looks familiar somehow.
I play it..the first "tune" is familiar...I perk up.
I instantly recognize it...Images of Bugs Bunny float to the surface.
What! Am I farther down the road to senility than I thought?
I grab the disc..Read it..performed in 1960 and 61..About the time the Bugs cartoons were being made...
Conductor....LEOPOLD Stokowski..the hair is exactly the same..It could be Bugs there. I laughed.
Now some of you classical folks will point and say, "Look at that Philistine!"
He couldn't tell a rhapsody from a Baroque Horn ensemble..\
You'd be right and so what?
Its funny how a cartoon show can plant a seed of musical appreciation that doesn't take root for decades!:D
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Cool!
My first memory of Stowkowski was his appearance, and arrangement of music, in Walt Disney's "Fantasia". He wasn't quite so gray haired then. That's the earliest motion picture memory I have. Showing my age.
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BlueMDPicker wrote: »Cool!
My first memory of Stowkowski was his appearance, and arrangement of music, in Walt Disney's "Fantasia". He wasn't quite so gray haired then. That's the earliest motion picture memory I have. Showing my age.
Hmm.. I never saw Fantasia. I have lived a deprived, some would say depraved existence.
Now I'm going to have to search for it.
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I'm so sad the bugs and likes of the 60-80's cartoons are gone, my kids are going to miss some good stuff.
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I totally remember that bugs cartoon from my childhood. It was one of my favorites! Good catch on the Leopold. Never even thought about it.
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I loved where Bugs sent off for earmuffs while he left the singer gasping for breath~TNRabbit
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Thats IT! What a great photo! I have a face splitting grin from ear to ear!
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OMG!!!...I remember that! Hopefully, I was watching a re-run.
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Thank goodness, virtualdean, for Youtube; had to search but ..... found it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPCUDAF0bVY&feature=related
Bugs was quite a fan of the classics/opera: Barber of Seville, Ride of the Valkyries (to the tune of "Kill the Wabbit" as sung by Elmer Fudd :eek:).
Thanks for that memory.
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I watched that youtube...Thanks for the link...many are corrupted by foreignors who over dub with different voices...mrbigbluelight wrote: »Thank goodness, virtualdean, for Youtube; had to search but ..... found it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPCUDAF0bVY&feature=related
Bugs was quite a fan of the classics/opera: Barber of Seville, Ride of the Valkyries (to the tune of "Kill the Wabbit" as sung by Elmer Fudd :eek:).
Thanks for that memory.
I then went to amazon..did u know that the whole warner bros cartoons were released in 2003? I bought volume 1.. hahaha. who would have thought I'd be buying cartoons at my age...One thing about getting into middle age..u don't care what people think anymore...(which explains why you see these old (older?) guys wearing plaid shorts and white socks with dress shoes running around. They don't give a sh....hoot..!
After I watch it I will send it to my Nephew who has a young kid of his own.
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dudeinaroom wrote: »I'm so sad the bugs and likes of the 60-80's cartoons are gone, my kids are going to miss some good stuff.
Your Kids are saved!!:D:D
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virtualdean wrote: »I watched that youtube...Thanks for the link...many are corrupted by foreignors who over dub with different voices...
I then went to amazon..did u know that the whole warner bros cartoons were released in 2003? I bought volume 1.. hahaha. who would have thought I'd be buying cartoons at my age...One thing about getting into middle age..u don't care what people think anymore...(which explains why you see these old (older?) guys wearing plaid shorts and white socks with dress shoes running around. They don't give a sh....hoot..!
After I watch it I will send it to my Nephew who has a young kid of his own.
Gotta break them in right!
Haven't given a **** since I was 13.virtualdean wrote: »
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dudeinaroom wrote: »Haven't given a **** since I was 13.
How in the heck is a link going to save my kids.
They are saved from having an empty void in their psyche that should be filled with pleasant memories of Bugs Bunny classics.
The link is to Amazon with volume one of Warner Bros., Looney Tunes and a bunch of old Bugs Bunny classics.
Come on Dad! The Kids will love it. Watch it together.:)
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My mom was an opera singer and when I was growing up in the early 60's in suburbia, my buddies and I would hear this strange wailing sound (my mom vocalising) pretty far from my house. They would all ask "what is that?" and I would act as mystified as they were.
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virtualdean wrote: »I watched that youtube...Thanks for the link...many are corrupted by foreignors who over dub with different voices...
I then went to amazon..did u know that the whole warner bros cartoons were released in 2003? I bought volume 1.. hahaha. who would have thought I'd be buying cartoons at my age...One thing about getting into middle age..u don't care what people think anymore...(which explains why you see these old (older?) guys wearing plaid shorts and white socks with dress shoes running around. They don't give a sh....hoot..!
After I watch it I will send it to my Nephew who has a young kid of his own.
Gotta break them in right!
I got the Looney tunes dvd...1st I prepared my mind with a few drinks to quell the worries of the day and get in the mood.
I watched it.. My sides hurt from laughing so much....What a great trip down memory lane! My nephew is going to have to wait until I get tired of this.
