Carl Stalling

[Teasing the Korean]

Enjoying some Looney Tunes with coffee this Saturday morning, and I'm reminded how amazing Carl Stalling was.

Back in the day, I bought both of the Carl Stalling collections compiled by Hal Wilner.

We watched the baseball episode, one of the many rabbit/duck variations, and the one with the opera singer, who lives in a beautiful moderne home, incidentally.

[danasgoodstuff]

Those CDs are favorites of mine too, along with the Raymond Scott collection that came out around the same time.  One of the few paces our tastes overlap, I think.  Fun stuff and seriously great too, part of a thing then rethinking the canon and giving it new balls or something.  it seemed like a thing at the time.  I have them filed next to Zorn's News For Lulu and other non-bop versions of bop tunes and Bailey's Ballads.  And Don Byron's Bug Music.

Edited July 14, 2024 by danasgoodstuff

[Big Al]

I'd always hoped there would've been some kind of resurrection of this series. Streaming versions would be just fine these days or even downloadable versions.

[Teasing the Korean]

10 hours ago, Big Al said:

I'd always hoped there would've been some kind of resurrection of this series. Streaming versions would be just fine these days or even downloadable versions.

There were supposed to be additional volumes, but what ended up happening was they included isolated score options on the DVD and/or Blu-ray cartoon collections.