10/7/2023 0 Comments Cartoon flamingo playing fluteMeanwhile, an animated cartoon series featuring the Chipmunks was in the planning stages, but development was being delayed due to producer Format Films having trouble with the character designs. The album itself, titled simply The Nutty Squirrels, was released shorty thereafter a follow-up single and an EP featuring other songs from the album were also issued. Both sides made the Billboard "Hot 100" chart, with Part 1 reaching #45 and Part 2 reaching #19 (and #9 on the R&B Chart). Hanover Records, a label owned in part by Steve Allen and producer Bob Thiele, picked up the creation and issued a single in October 1959 featuring "Uh! Oh! (Part 1)" and "Uh! Oh! (Part 2)". Backing their altered vocals were some of the best New York session musicians of the late 1950's, including Cannonball Adderley on sax, Bobby Jaspar on flute and Sam Most on clarinet. Amused by the Chipmunks concept, they decided to record a jazz scat album under the guise of a hip group of squirrels, recording their voices at 16 RPM and playing them back at 33 RPM just like Ross Bagdasarian did for his Chipmunks. This squirrel duo was the brainchild of jazz musicians Don Elliott and Alexander "Sascha" Burland. The initial success of Alvin and the Chipmunks with "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" in late 1958 led to several imitators trying to replicate the success of the helium-voiced trio, the most notable of which being The Nutty Squirrels. It’s the piece of music you want to hear over and over because of how it makes you feel.Īdding joy, fun, dancing and music to these fictional characters lives is absolutely essential to their existence, and hits all the right notes.The cover of their first album, The Nutty Squirrels, released by Hanover. The note you thought you’d never be able to hit, but one day, it ‘just’ happened. It’s the sheet music you learned to read this year. As this holiday season gets underway, it’s good to remember the best things we can give are the things we create ourselves. The harp was a Christmas gift he received ‘From me, to me.’Īnd that’s what music is. Makes it hard to cover the holes with the pads of your fingers.ĭespite the constant chiding to sing with his brothers, Alvin the Chipmunk would prefer to play his cherished harmonica. Playing underwater may have something to do with that, as well as his natural lack of fingers. Despite frequent practice, he’ll never be a clarinet virtuoso. If Squidward Tentacles never gets to Symphony Hall, it’s not for trying. Although aspires to be a famous jazz musician when she grows up, chances are, she may not get her wish, as she inherited her dad Homer’s stubbing fingers. Lisa Simpson, a second-grader since 1989, can still be found – “If anyone wants me, I’ll be in my room.” - playing one of her three saxophones. Equilibrium is restored, temporarily and artificially, to the world. Who doesn’t love to curl up on the sofa in their jammies on a wintry Saturday morning to enter a world where we can laugh at and appreciate our own human foibles and emotions safely played out by animated characters? Cartoon characters get away with things for which we rarely could. Joy, movement, connection.Ĭartoons provide much-needed relief from the mind-numbing loop of reality TV and cable news. The crowd went wild and took to the dance floor.Īnd that’s what music is about. Once in a while, Snoopy picked up a bass, and jammed with Charlie on guitar, and Pig Pen on drums. Peanuts’ Schroeder was a played a mean toy piano. One of Charlie Brown’s posse, Schroeder displayed his prodigious skills and made no secret of his love of classical music, and for the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. ![]() Their cool girl power vibe helped sell the concept Josie and Company could turn the tables on the bad guys who invariably chased them around in each episode. Besides the music, the animation featured leopard print leotards, replete with ‘long tails and ears for hats’ as their theme song reveals.Josie, the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist is joined by brainy bassist Valerie, and stereotypically blonde airhead, and drummer, Melody. Stewie’s dad, Peter spends more time tuning his guitar than playing famously telling a live audience, “This was in perfect tune when they handed it to me.”įor groovy seventies pop, look no further than Josie and the Pussycats. Stewie himself provides banjo licks and vocals on ‘My Fat Baby.’ On one notable occasion Little Stewie Griffin, the family toddler sits in with the Cowtones, whose members play the jug, washboard and washtub bass. TV’s Family Guy often finds it’s musical mojo.
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