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A Piece of Classical Music from various Cartoons - SOLVED AT LAST!

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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EDIT: I should clarify that although I'm not sure the piece was used exclusively in Fleischer Brothers cartoons it was probably also used in various other Merry Melody (Waener Brothers) cartoons as well.

It seemed to be used almost every time a storm at sea ( or a rain storm of any sort) was depicted.

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[–] Carl-LaFong 7 years ago

Couldn't you him the tune into vocaroo and post it here?

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[–] TheReturnofCountSuckula 7 years ago

I'm not familiar with vocaroo, but I'll Google it and give it a whirl. Thanks for replying tho.

I'll be back in a few minutes...

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[–] Eva_Yojimbo 7 years ago

I recall very little from any of the Fleischer cartoons I used to watch, but a common classical piece that often accompanies storms is Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.

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[–] TheReturnofCountSuckula 7 years ago

First and foremost thanks very much for replying. And although I am familiar with parts of "Bald Mountain" I decided to double check by listening to the entire piece.

Mussorgsky's work is so compelling and powerful that for a brief moment (at about 3:03 and 6:50) the brass section sounded somewhat similar to the piece in question...

https://youtu.be/iCEDfZgDPS8

...but alas it's not the one.

I kept listening, believing it might yet...evolve into the mystery piece, but it didn't.

But again, I thank you so much for helping.

Currently, I've been listening to EVERY Fleischer cartoon I can find on YouTube (there are quite a few of them) and hopefully I'll eventually find it.

If and when I do I will contact you and Carl La-Fong if you like.

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[–] Carl-LaFong 7 years ago

Yes, post a link to a video of the cartoon if you ever find it. Just post it on this thread.

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[–] TheReturnofCountSuckula 7 years ago

Will do, and thanks again all.

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[–] continuousmonsterdrip 7 years ago

You could also try posting on talkclassical.com - there's a lot of action there, and they have a whole forum dedicated to identifying pieces of music.

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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).