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Drawn: The Story of Animation

Music of 'Toons

Drawn: The Story of Animation

HowStuffWorks and Cartoon Network

Tv & Film

4.8763 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Viewers may not always realize how deeply the music in a cartoon affects them. But without the score, we'd be emotionally lost. How do composers deftly handle that crucial emotional manipulation?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Holly Fry, and this is Drawn.

0:05.5

I'll bet that you can hum or sing the theme song or some other piece of music

0:10.9

from your favorite cartoon without having to dig very deep into the memory banks.

0:15.7

One, two, three.

0:16.7

Let's your time. Come on, grab your video and survive.

0:22.9

Let's get dangerous.

0:25.6

Dark wind cocktails.

0:27.6

Woo.

0:31.8

Music is a universal language.

0:38.3

It speaks to us on a deep level and it gets into the corners of our brains.

0:43.3

And for a lot of us, the music we heard in cartoons as kids seems to stick there forever.

0:50.3

So when I was a little boy, the looomys cartoons were on Saturday morning.

0:55.3

And I would get up every Saturday morning and sit on the living floor and turn on the television.

1:02.2

That's conductor, producer, and director George Doherty, the creator of Bugs Bunny at the Symphony.

1:08.7

Back in those days, this is, you know, in the late 50s, early 60s, the sound came on pretty

1:14.9

quickly, but the picture would take like two minutes to warm up and appear.

1:19.6

But I could find the Looney Tune Cartoon by their sound, even when I was four or five years

1:26.3

old, because they have such a distinctive musical

1:29.3

and sound effects footprint that I could find them without even looking at them.

1:36.3

And, you know, I find that a lot of people say the same thing that these cartoons have a very, very, very specific Warner Brothers sound,

1:47.1

Looneyton Sound.

2:11.0

Ah! Even though George was already playing music himself as a kid,

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