Melodies to make you merry
Today is the first official day of summer, which means... today is the longest day of the year! (insert trumpets and fanfare here). It's also Tuesday which means... Three Tune Tuesday! (insert louder trumpets and fanfare here). Thank you, @ablaze, for giving us a place to share.
The first full day of summer always brings memories of a time long ago back to me. The warm days with lots of sunlight and no school always reminds me of my own childhood summers spent carelessly riding a bike all over the community, walking through the park to my friends, and trying (and failing) to play tennis.
A lot of my childhood memories revolve around Saturday Morning Cartoons. If you're about my age, give or take a few years, you'll probably know what I mean and, most likely, also have some fond memories of it. I remember Saturday mornings spent glued to the tv with the weekly TV Guide in my hands to help me plan out my tv watching morning. It was like an engineering feat, really. This was also back in the day that a week's worth of television programming could be printed in a weekly paperback guide. It was truly remarkable.
Whether I realised it or not, some of these cartoons really did introduce me - and an entire generation of other children - to some of the classics of music. Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies were aptly named (even though I never personally called them - it was always just Bugs Bunny to me) - these cartoons were chock full of, what I didn't realise at the time, really great music. This first was a common staple. The Blue Danube waltz was composed by Johann Strauss in 1867. This particular version was recorded by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Leopold Stokowski in 1919. I recorded this on my Victrola VV-IX.
This next song - Hungarian Dance Number 17 - was one of a number of Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms. He wrote a number of these based on traditional Hungarian folk songs, and many of these were pieced together into various Looney Tunes clips. This particular version was recorded by Mischa Elman, who is one of my favourite violinists, in 1921. I recorded this song on my Columbia K-2 phonograph.
Finally, this song almost doesn't need an introduction. Surprisingly, this is not The William Tell Overture fourth movement, which has been used for every conceivable purpose and is still one of my favourite pieces to play (when I do get a new phonograph I will play it to ascertain whether the phonograph has a good sound or not). You will want to get up and dance to this song, or at least bounce along in your chair.
This particular version of the song was also recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, but in 1920.
Enjoy these songs? Come listen to me stream them live! I hold a live Three Tune Tuesday show of three of my favourite analogue-recorded 78rpm records every Tuesday!
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Happy Summer Solstice! I'm glad you're enjoying the music. It's raining here, but it's lush and green, so I'll take it. Stay awesome!
The rain held off one day for us! Sunny yesterday, but thunderbooming today.
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I really love these walks through time, I also loved the cartoon weekends, despite the geographical distance we can be united by common memories thanks to those cartoons that gave us an approach to classical music.
I will always remember Bugs Bunny accompanied by great tunes!
Thanks for sharing every Tuesday these nice posts, I also loved the story you share.
Thanks so much @eugelys! I'm thinking a better microphone made all the difference in recording, too.
I never even thought of the music as "classical" when I was younger; it was just cartoon music. I remember being puzzled the first time I heard one of those songs outside of a cartoon!
I also put together puzzles with my family and collected board games back then :) More fond memories come to mind
Hola creo que es la primera vez que veo tu publicación y transmisión de los martes, me hiciste viajar a mi infancia y además mi cerebro se siento relajado al sentir el masaje que la da ese tipo de música, estaremos pendientes de tus publicaciones, un saludo cordial desde Aragua, Venezuela.
¡Me alegro de que hayas disfrutado de la música! Definitivamente tendré tres más la próxima semana. ¡Ya lo estoy planeando!
Greetings my dear friend, I hope you are well.
For you the beginning of summer for us the shortest day of the year since winter begins, and at least for me the first of my life since I arrived very recently here in Argentina.
hahahahahaha I agree with you, I always called them the same xD. What good times those were, weren't they?
Excellent pieces and writers that in some way or another marked our lives!!!
Thank you so much for bringing us this nice writing!!!!
Blessings!
I'm glad you enjoyed the music!
Yep, it was always just "Bugs Bunny" and I remember always being happy when he was actually in the cartoon. I do miss Saturday morning cartoons, indeed!
I suppose it needs to be winter for someone. 😁 I'm already looking forward to the fall, which is definitely my favourite time of the year.
Thank you for stopping by!
A real joy as always my friend, I really love what you do with these old songs from the wind up aparatus of over a century ago. I like to close my eyes and imagine my great Great Grand parents dancing to these in their little kitchens or dance halls.
Thanks so much! I'm really glad that these old songs are enjoyed by others as well. I'm having such a great time putting it all together, too.