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Help. I'm searching for a piece of Classical Music from various Cartoons

posted 7 years ago by TheReturnofCountSuckula
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Greetings all.

Like millions of other American baby boomer kids, many of my first exposures to classical music were through cartoons. (Warner Brothers' Merry Melodies; Silly Symphonies etc from the 40s - 60s?)

And as much as I loved them all and learned the titles of most of them there has always been ONE whose title has always escaped me. For DECADES I've been trying to identify this one piece. And that is why I am asking your help today.

Actually, I'm not certain if the piece is classical or not, but I seem to recall hearing it played in Max and/or Dave Fleischer cartoons whenever there was a raging Storm at Sea depicted.

I realize how vague this.must sound, but short of humming it for you I don't know how else to describe it.

Can someone please help me identify it, or at least point me in the right direction.

I have scoured YouTube for almost every classical song I could listen to to no avail. Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] mjf314 7 years ago

Can you link us to a Youtube video of a Fleischer cartoon where the music is used?

[–] TheReturnofCountSuckula 7 years ago

Thanks for replying

Regrettably I've not been able to find a video or a recording of the piece in question anywhere.

And I'm not certain it was used exclusively in a Fleischer cartoon as I seem to recall hearing it in various cartoons. Sorry, I guess I should've made that clear in my OP.

I'll edit the OP accordingly, and again, thanks for replying.

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[–] comic_guy87 7 years ago

I have two suggestions, these pieces of music have been used in a lot of storm scenes in cartoons, the first is "The William Tell Overture Part 2: The Storm": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKrz1pl9oPw.

The second piece is "The Poet and the Peasant Overture": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_aM_s0R1U (skip to 3:33).

[–] A-zone 7 years ago

Could it be "Ride of the Valkyries"?

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