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by foldingmoney
2588 days ago
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Raymond Scott never wrote music _for_ cartoons. His early music was used in cartoons some time later because it turned out to be an excellent fit, but at the time I believe his stated intention was to 'improve jazz'. Great music regardless. There's a cool version of War Dance for Wooden Indians with indian dancers on YouTube. |
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You're not wrong. See:
https://www.raymondscott.net/features/accidental-music-for-a...
I find his music to be clever, entertaining and well ahead of its time in many respects. His music was sometimes dismissed by jazz purists of the time as being "novelty" or "dada" jazz.
There was a documentary I saw a little while back which included a discussion of Scott's surprise when he started receiving royalty checks again the 1990's when Ren & Stimpy started to use a lot of his music as well.