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Post by Shychick on Aug 16, 2007 19:35:21 GMT
I have noticed background music in at least two eps which seem VERY familiar to me. One of them is the very beginning of the scene in "The Ghost of McCastle McDuckula" when we see Duckula playing golf. The other one, from "Restoration Comedy" when the workmen are clumsily plastering the walls.
Where have I heard these bits of music before? The Flintstones? Ren and Stimpy? Looney Tunes? I can't place it... I dunno which show ripped off which, Count Duckula or the other show(s) that I've heard that music from.
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Post by Stacey W. on Aug 16, 2007 19:56:04 GMT
It's stock music. They use it in a lot of toons, such as those made by Nick [remember, Duckula was a Nick co-production], hell even Dangermouse used stock music at times. I know there was one episode of SpongeBob [Lost In Time] that used a piece of stock used in No Sax Please, LOL, and I heard music from Dr Goosewing and Mr Duck in an episode of the adult version of Ren & Stimpy...
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Post by Gaston on Aug 16, 2007 22:10:22 GMT
Try this link secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2006/11/ren-stimpy-production-music.htmlI downloaded the whole lot and listen to them whilst drawing! 'Saw Theme' is used over the title of 'The Ghost of McCastle McDuckula' and whenevr the ghost appears and in 'No Sax Please we're Egyptian' during the flashback in Igor's tale. It's used a LOT in The Ren & Stimpy Show as is 'Turkey Trot' when Duckula is playing golf (Stimpy's Breakfast Tips, What's on TV today? Ren reading the letters in 'Stimpy's Fan Club' etc) 'Smouldering Fury' is used in creepy moment numerous in R&S and when the Duckula trio enter zero-gravity in 'The Vampire Strikes Back' 'Spindlelegs' (Stimpy writing his poem in 'Stimpy's Big Day' and Sugar Frosted Lumps) plays on Nanny's radio in 'Dr Goosewing and Mr. Duck' and 'Incredible Shrinking Duck' when Goosewing leaves the shop. 'Spooky Scherzo' Soammes and Poston drive to the Castle in 'The Great Ducktective' Ren & Stimpy kick down the door in 'Haunted House.' 'Finger of Fear' begins and ends a LOT of Duckula episodes and is heard in 'Stimpy's Cartoon Show' 'The March Of the Ants' usually used in Ren & Stimpy when something smelly is about. Used when Duckula practises his magic in 'Dr. Von Goosewing's Invisible ray' and when the three of them comtemplate jumping off the comariatavely huge table in 'The Incredible Shrinking Duck'. 'Trafficscape' Dog-catcher drives off - 'Big House Blues (R&S) DangerMouse gives Agent 57 a lift - 'The Spy Who Stayed In With a Cold' 'Rescue' Duckula falls in the water - 'Lost City of Atlantis' Ren loses his temper with Kowalski - 'Fake Dad' 'Stealth By Night' occurs in 'Stimpy's Fan Club' (boy a lot of these have his name in the title!), 'A Yard Too Far' and in 'The Count and the Pauper' (maybe others) 'Terror By Night' - 'The Count and the Pauper', 'There Are Werewolves at the Bottom on our Garden', 'Stimpy's Fan Club', 'Ren's Bitter Half' 'Folli the Foal' - Nanny's wireless in 'The Return etc.' and throughout 'Robin Hoek'. Also in the Victor & Hugo episode 'Stone Me' when the brothers are at the cafe. 'Police Car Chase' during the aeroplane ride of 'Down Under Duckula' and in 'Lair of the Lummox and when Wilbur Cobb escapes prison in 'BassMasters' (R&S again) I also have 'Uncle Fred' which plays whilst Mr. Shooshboomer is complaining about the clock in 'Manhattan Duck' somewhere on cassette tape. I'd love to get my hands on the D i c k Barton/Bulldog Drummnd theme used during chase sequences like when the Fangboner chases DM & Penfold in 'Afternoon Off - With a Fanboner' for example 'Pomp and Ceromony' Start of 'An Abe Divided' (Ren & Stimpy) and 'Don Coyote & Sancho Penfold' (Danger Mouse) A lot of this music was used in 'Harry Hill's Fruit Fancies' and 'Bits and Pieces' and 'Graveyard' are used in two episodes of 'Father Ted' 'Blood in the Gutter' - used in 'Private Beak' (CD) and 'The Boy Who Cried Rat' and 'Fire Dogs' (R&S) Some of that creepy music used in 'Dr. Goosewing & Mr. Duck' I got on a copy of a friend's CD (she made me a copy) and I used them in my fantasy parody film 'The Orb of Fury' one of the tunes is used in the McDuckula episode when Duckula finally realises he's at the wrong hotel - it's also used in DM ep. 'The Statue of Liberty Caper' during the superb 'you guessed that I guessed that you guessed' BOOOM! bit. (and just as Sgt. Frenlez sends the Duckula trio away on their mission in .Beau Duckula') I also managed to tape these tunes off the telly (some Vincent Price horror) The eerie music over the titles of 'The Zombie Awakes' and 'Unreal Estate' and the end of 'Beau Duckula' Some of the forest music in 'There Are Werewolves at the Bottom on our Garden' I used all these tunes in my film too. Nanny 'holds up' the plane in 'Hi-Duck' What a sad little man I am!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2007 22:32:48 GMT
I'm sorry, I'm a confuse... I always thought that Ren & Stimpy music and some of Count Duckula music background were classical music, from movies and traditional/well know melodies So this means that Duckula's music is copied?!
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Post by Gaston on Aug 16, 2007 22:37:06 GMT
ALL the music in Ren & Stimpy (with a few exceptions) is production music, available to ALL film-makers. As was a lot of the music in Count Duckula and almost every other programme ever made!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2007 22:42:50 GMT
Thanks Gaston! I thought it was like you explained, but I was unsure. Thanks.
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Post by Stacey W. on Aug 16, 2007 22:47:56 GMT
That's most awesome Gaston, certainly made my evening! There's a few that I recognised instantly!
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Post by Gaston on Aug 16, 2007 23:23:25 GMT
It's my kind of music!
I forgot to mention 'Workaday World' used when Duckula et al are in the sleigh in 'Arctic Circles' and when Stimpy and Sven get out the board game in 'Sven Hoek' (among other instances)
Some of my favourites are Spindlelegs, Workaday World, Happy Go Lively, Gay Activity and It's That Man Again'
No DON'T ask me when all the other tunes were used in Ren & Stimpy or I'll be here for a week!
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Post by Shychick on Aug 17, 2007 4:44:11 GMT
WHOA, my Gaston, that is freaking impressive that it is!! That's just amazing how you know all that! I cannot believe I never picked up on any of the others before, since I am a huge fan of R&S... though it's been awhile since I watched any, to be fair. I'll really have to listen carefully next time; though, now that I actually look back on a lot of those scenes you mentioned from Duckula, it totally rings a bell!! I'm sure I've recognized some of the music before though, when I've actually watched those eps, just perhaps not on a direct or concious level. But now I totally remember, thank you! So, you're saying the music is just general cartoon music that anybody can use? Ok, but which show orginally had any of that music on it? I could swear I've heard some on The Flintstones or Looney Tunes.
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Post by Gaston on Aug 17, 2007 7:38:56 GMT
Hanna Barbera used canned music in their early work (pre-Flintstones) but it was almost all from a different library. Looney Tunes is all composed specifically music, wth the exception of a few produced in the late 50s during a musicians strike they used the same library as early HB. Of course classical scores are sampled or used in everything.
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Post by Stacey W. on Aug 17, 2007 10:04:07 GMT
I like "Turkey Trot" and "Tom Fool" the best ;D The former was used in Mutinous Penguins as well.
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Post by Nightwish on Aug 17, 2007 16:10:12 GMT
thanks for pointing this out. i suppose they use stock music quite a lot for cartoons. i thought about it for a while but it sort of slipped my mind. no one really mentioned it until now
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Post by Gaston on Aug 17, 2007 17:46:04 GMT
That's right, when Nanny's making the tea.
I should correct myself when I said 'Folli the Foal' only plays briefly in 'The Return of etc' - it play quite a bit when Nanny's 'stock-breaking'.
'Tom Fool' played in Ren & Stimpy under the Gritty Kitty adverts and and in 'Jerry the Belly Button Elf'.
'Pathe Newsreel' Beginning of 'Dog Show' (R&S) Duckula fantasising about discovering Atlantis (Lost City of Atlantis)
Sorry, I'm so sad - I love this stuff!
BTW I wasn't swearing earlier when I wrote D i c k Barton Theme. It's a name!
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Post by Shychick on Aug 17, 2007 18:39:17 GMT
'Pathe Newsreel' Beginning of 'Dog Show' (R&S) Duckula fantasising about discovering Atlantis (Lost City of Atlantis) Oh, yeah! I love that one! That's one of the peices I actually DO immediately recognize everytime, but I forgot to add it in my original post. Well, it's nice to know that the R&S team didn't blatently copy the music from Count Duckula, and vice-versa. Plus, like Stace pointed out, Duckula was partially a Nick. show- and I think they might've used much of that stock-music on a variety of their old shows, like R&S, Rocko's Modern Life, etc.
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Post by Gaston on Aug 17, 2007 19:37:53 GMT
But the production on Count Duckula was overseen entirely in Britain. It first aired on ITV in 1988.
I guess the thoery is - f the music is there - use it! It's great!
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