Tigg’s Jesus Christ Superstar post set something weird going in my head. I had I Don’t Know How To Love Him as an ear worm but sung by Elmer Fudd. It went on for a couple of days and I began to wonder if I had actually heard it somewhere so off I went to Google. Elmer Fudd doing JCS isn’t actually a thing but I found a great New Yorker article about a conductor who has plays along to the great Loony Tunes cartoons that use classical pieces such as The Barber of Seville. If you can get past the New Yorker pay wall then the article is great. My favourite line was
“I look at this serious, world-renowned orchestra and I see musicians singing, ‘Oh, Brunhilde, you’re so wuv-wy, yes I know it, I can’t help it.’
I wish someone would make great 5 minute shorts like these again.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/wuvwy-music
Skuds says
Robin Williams used to do a great Elmer Fudd singing Bruce Springsteen bit. I think it was I’m on fire
Junior Wells says
So let me get this right, you’ve got an earworm of a song that was never even sung, at least by that err artist. That is seriously fucked.
If I end up with it too Dave, I’m gonna hunt you down.
davebigpicture says
“Hides in cupboard under the stairs.”
metal mickey says
I can’t recommend highly enough the 2 “Carl Stalling Project” albums that are out there compiling the work that Stalling did for those classic Warner Bros cartoons all those years ago… most are short-ish cues, but there are a few full soundtracks, which even without the accompanying visuals, are fantastically evocative and borderline avant garde, though kids would love them too, for obvious reasons… here’s a recent live take that gives you a good flavour: