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On February 20, 1937, the Raymond Scott Quintette recorded "Powerhouse."
I run a big thread about Raymond Scott every year on his birthday in September.
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top 5 song of all time do NOT mess with me
"Powerhouse" by @_Raymond_Scott_ was recorded 86 years ago today. Check out my article for @cartoonbrew about how the tune became an animation staple: https://cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-study/raymond-scott-powerhouse-80th-anniversary-226143.html
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Powerhouse (instrumental)
Brunswick 78 rpm issue of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse"
Single by The Raymond Scott Quintette
B-side: "The Toy Trumpet"
Released: 1937
Recorded: February 20, 1937
Songwriter(s): Raymond Scott
"Powerhouse" (1937) is an instrumental musical composition by Raymond Scott, perhaps best known today as the "assembly line" music in animated cartoons released by Warner Bros.
History
In scripted comments read on the First Anniversary Special of CBS Radio's Saturday Night Swing Club, on which the Raymond Scott Quintette performed, host Paul Douglas announced that "Powerhouse" had been premiered on that program in January or early February 1937.
Scott's Quintette (actually a sextet) first recorded "Powerhouse" in New York on February 20, 1937, along with three other titles. This recording was first commercially issued on the Irving Mills-owned Master Records label as Master 111 (mx. M-120-1), coupled with another Scott composition, "The Toy Trumpet". After the demise of the Master label late in 1937, "Powerhouse" was reissued on Brunswick 7993, and subsequently on Columbia 36311 (after the CBS purchase of ARC, which included the Brunswick catalog). The same take was issued on all releases. (An unreleased 1939 recording by the original Scott Quintette was issued in 2002 on the two-CD Scott compilation Microphone Music.)
The personnel on the February 20, 1937, version are:
"Powerhouse" and "The Toy Trumpet" remained in Scott's repertoire for decades, and both were adapted for Warner Bros. cartoon soundtracks by WB music director Carl Stalling along with a dozen other Scott titles, and both have been recorded by numerous other artists. Stalling, who spiced his scores with "Powerhouse" dozens of times, never created a complete version of the work, with all his adaptations existing as excerpts.
The United States publisher of the title is Wise Music Group. Outside the U.S., the title is controlled by Warner/Chappell Music.
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Brunswick 78 rpm issue of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse"
Single by The Raymond Scott Quintette
B-side: "The Toy Trumpet"
Released: 1937
Recorded: February 20, 1937
Songwriter(s): Raymond Scott
"Powerhouse" (1937) is an instrumental musical composition by Raymond Scott, perhaps best known today as the "assembly line" music in animated cartoons released by Warner Bros.
History
In scripted comments read on the First Anniversary Special of CBS Radio's Saturday Night Swing Club, on which the Raymond Scott Quintette performed, host Paul Douglas announced that "Powerhouse" had been premiered on that program in January or early February 1937.
Scott's Quintette (actually a sextet) first recorded "Powerhouse" in New York on February 20, 1937, along with three other titles. This recording was first commercially issued on the Irving Mills-owned Master Records label as Master 111 (mx. M-120-1), coupled with another Scott composition, "The Toy Trumpet". After the demise of the Master label late in 1937, "Powerhouse" was reissued on Brunswick 7993, and subsequently on Columbia 36311 (after the CBS purchase of ARC, which included the Brunswick catalog). The same take was issued on all releases. (An unreleased 1939 recording by the original Scott Quintette was issued in 2002 on the two-CD Scott compilation Microphone Music.)
The personnel on the February 20, 1937, version are:
• Raymond Scott - piano
• Dave Harris - saxophone
• Pete Pumiglio - clarinet
• Dave Wade - trumpet
• Louis Shoobe - double bass
• Johnny Williams - drums
"Powerhouse" and "The Toy Trumpet" remained in Scott's repertoire for decades, and both were adapted for Warner Bros. cartoon soundtracks by WB music director Carl Stalling along with a dozen other Scott titles, and both have been recorded by numerous other artists. Stalling, who spiced his scores with "Powerhouse" dozens of times, never created a complete version of the work, with all his adaptations existing as excerpts.
The United States publisher of the title is Wise Music Group. Outside the U.S., the title is controlled by Warner/Chappell Music.
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Raymond Scott
Background information
Birth name: Harry Warnow
Born: September 10, 1908; Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died: February 8, 1994 (aged 85); North Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Website: raymondscott.net
Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow; September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.
Though Scott never scored cartoon soundtracks, his music is familiar to millions because Carl Stalling adapted it in over 120 Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and other Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. His compositions may also be heard in The Ren and Stimpy Show (which uses Scott's recordings in twelve episodes), The Simpsons, Duckman, Animaniacs, The Oblongs, and Batfink. The only time he composed to accompany animation was three 20-second commercial jingles for County Fair Bread in 1962.
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Background information
Birth name: Harry Warnow
Born: September 10, 1908; Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died: February 8, 1994 (aged 85); North Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Website: raymondscott.net
Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow; September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.
Though Scott never scored cartoon soundtracks, his music is familiar to millions because Carl Stalling adapted it in over 120 Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and other Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. His compositions may also be heard in The Ren and Stimpy Show (which uses Scott's recordings in twelve episodes), The Simpsons, Duckman, Animaniacs, The Oblongs, and Batfink. The only time he composed to accompany animation was three 20-second commercial jingles for County Fair Bread in 1962.
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Baby Bottleneck
Music by: Carl W. Stalling
Release date: March 16, 1946
Baby Bottleneck is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett and written by Warren Foster. The cartoon was released on March 16, 1946, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.
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Plot
As the post-World War II baby boom explodes, an overworked stork (patterned after comedian Jimmy Durante) gets drunk in the Stork Club, complaining that he does all the work and the fathers get all the credit. Inexperienced animals; among them a dog with a propeller-powered tail carrying bundles of babies, four crows attempting to deliver an elephant, a pelican with simple devices to help haul the babies in its bill, and a mouse dragging a baby rhino; are among those commissioned to handle the increased workload as they take the babies to their parents. Babies are getting sent to the wrong parents; a mother goose is disgusted by her baby skunk, a baby kitten refuses to swim for its mother duck, a baby gorilla rides uncomfortably in the pouch of a Kangaroo, a Scottie Dog tries to rock his hippo to sleep, and two parents receive offspring that try to eat them—a kitten to a terrified mouse and an alligator to a pig.
Porky Pig is brought in to manage Storks Inc. and its assembly line, with Daffy Duck as his assistant. While Daffy mans the phones, making quick references to Bing Crosby ( "I'm sorry, Bing, you've used up your quota." ), Eddie Cantor ( "You say you haven't got that boy yet?" ) and the Dionne Quintuplets' father ( "Mr. Dionne, please!" ), Porky runs the control room, contacting references to Roydan Stork, Jimmy Doolittle as Jimmy Doo-quite-a-little, and a B-19. Then a dog worker, apparently research and development, comes into Porky's door and said his skyrocket invention would speed things exponentially, but the rocket exploded before the send-off. It's back to the drawing board for that idea.
Then Daffy yells, "Fffull-speed ahead!" and Porky pulled the switch as the babies (among them Tweety in a brief cameo) are seen going through a conveyor belt ( to the tune of Raymond Scott's famous "Powerhouse" ) as they are diapered, fed milk and mechanically burped before they are sent by various animals, one of which is a baby hippo crying loudly and paused as it cutely said, "I'm only 3½ seconds old," before resuming its wailing. When the milk feeding machine begins spraying milk over a baby dog's diaper, it begins crying as an alarm suddenly sounds. In response, Porky pulls a lever that sends the baby dog to be given a rather quick bath.
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Music by: Carl W. Stalling
Release date: March 16, 1946
Baby Bottleneck is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett and written by Warren Foster. The cartoon was released on March 16, 1946, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.
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Plot
As the post-World War II baby boom explodes, an overworked stork (patterned after comedian Jimmy Durante) gets drunk in the Stork Club, complaining that he does all the work and the fathers get all the credit. Inexperienced animals; among them a dog with a propeller-powered tail carrying bundles of babies, four crows attempting to deliver an elephant, a pelican with simple devices to help haul the babies in its bill, and a mouse dragging a baby rhino; are among those commissioned to handle the increased workload as they take the babies to their parents. Babies are getting sent to the wrong parents; a mother goose is disgusted by her baby skunk, a baby kitten refuses to swim for its mother duck, a baby gorilla rides uncomfortably in the pouch of a Kangaroo, a Scottie Dog tries to rock his hippo to sleep, and two parents receive offspring that try to eat them—a kitten to a terrified mouse and an alligator to a pig.
Porky Pig is brought in to manage Storks Inc. and its assembly line, with Daffy Duck as his assistant. While Daffy mans the phones, making quick references to Bing Crosby ( "I'm sorry, Bing, you've used up your quota." ), Eddie Cantor ( "You say you haven't got that boy yet?" ) and the Dionne Quintuplets' father ( "Mr. Dionne, please!" ), Porky runs the control room, contacting references to Roydan Stork, Jimmy Doolittle as Jimmy Doo-quite-a-little, and a B-19. Then a dog worker, apparently research and development, comes into Porky's door and said his skyrocket invention would speed things exponentially, but the rocket exploded before the send-off. It's back to the drawing board for that idea.
Then Daffy yells, "Fffull-speed ahead!" and Porky pulled the switch as the babies (among them Tweety in a brief cameo) are seen going through a conveyor belt ( to the tune of Raymond Scott's famous "Powerhouse" ) as they are diapered, fed milk and mechanically burped before they are sent by various animals, one of which is a baby hippo crying loudly and paused as it cutely said, "I'm only 3½ seconds old," before resuming its wailing. When the milk feeding machine begins spraying milk over a baby dog's diaper, it begins crying as an alarm suddenly sounds. In response, Porky pulls a lever that sends the baby dog to be given a rather quick bath.
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Raymond Scott POWERHOUSE in LOONEY TUNES
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Warner Bros. made this official montage of Raymond Scott's classic 1937 tune, "Powerhouse," in vintage LOONEY TUNES and MERRIE MELODIES animation • More into about Raymond Scott: http://RaymondScott.com
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Warner Bros. made this official montage of Raymond Scott's classic 1937 tune, "Powerhouse," in vintage LOONEY TUNES and MERRIE MELODIES animation • More into about Raymond Scott: http://RaymondScott.com
Thu Feb 8, 2024: On this day, February 8, 1994, Raymond Scott died.
Sun Sep 10, 2023: On this day, September 10, 1908, Raymond Scott was born.
Tue Feb 21, 2023: On February 20, 1937, the Raymond Scott Quintette recorded "Powerhouse."
Thu Feb 9, 2023: On February 8, 1994, Raymond Scott died.
Sat Sep 10, 2022: On this day, September 10, 1908, Harry Warnow was born. You know him better as Raymond Scott.
Fri Sep 10, 2021: On this day, September 10, 1908, Harry Warnow was born. You know him better as Raymond Scott.
Tue Feb 9, 2021: On February 8, 1994, Raymond Scott died.
Mon Sep 10, 2018: This would have been his 110th birthday: Raymond Scott
I was watching the Saturday morning cartoons last weekend, and of course there was an excerpt of a Raymond Scott piece in one of them. It was "Baby Bottleneck."