Pretty Mary Sunlight

[jrijr]

Hi there! This is my first post, and I hope I have this in the right spot.

I'm watching Boomerang this morning, and there was an episode on with a slightly different version of "Pretty Mary Sunlight." It was a bit slower (not by much), and had a completely different rhythm than the one most all of us know.

I can't find the name of the episode now... wondering if anyone else might know what I am talking about.

But... my bigger question... does anyone know the story of how/why there were songs used in chase scenes on Scooby-Doo? Was it some specific reason? There were a few different ones used... just wondering how they came to be.

Thanks!

[Doo]

Jan 6, 2013 12:02:38 GMT -5 jrijr said:

Hi there! This is my first post, and I hope I have this in the right spot.

I'm watching Boomerang this morning, and there was an episode on with a slightly different version of "Pretty Mary Sunlight." It was a bit slower (not by much), and had a completely different rhythm than the one most all of us know.

I can't find the name of the episode now... wondering if anyone else might know what I am talking about.

But... my bigger question... does anyone know the story of how/why there were songs used in chase scenes on Scooby-Doo? Was it some specific reason? There were a few different ones used... just wondering how they came to be.

Thanks!

Welcome jrijr! The episode was "Don't Fool with a Phantom," which was the last Where Are You episode ever.

I'm not sure why they used songs in Scooby Doo for chase scenes. They did a few chase songs in Where Are You and New Scooby Doo Movies, and in nearly every episode of Pup Named Scooby Doo and What's New Scooby Doo, but it was never explained why.

[j3h]

My wife and I caught that episode on boomerang too, which prompted her to ask "exactly how many episodes of Scooby-doo uses this song?!?"
...it does seem more than it actually is.

[ahkyahnan]

Wasn't it played a bunch in The Phantom Of The Country Music Hall?

Phantoms must like that song.

Mark

[Doo]

LOL!

[Deleted]

In the 1960s: MUSIC became the dominant "message forum" of a generation...and after the runaway success of an entirely "Made-for-TV" band called The Monkees sold (about) twenty million records in three years (1966-1969), EVERYBODY got in on the act of trying to cross-promote Pop music with their media product in order to reach YOUNGER AUDIENCES.

The number 1 song of the year Scooby premiered (1969) was called "Sugar, Sugar". It had been anonymously recorded for the sole use of being included in another cartoon called "The Archies" (probably the one other source, more than anything else, Scooby was cooked-up to be a television rival to). When it was realized what money could be made, "Bubblegum Music" (the name it was known-as then) found its way into anything which was geared at the teenage market (to try to capitalize on the idea of any future record releases possibly being exploited).

Personally, I think the Pop music angle brought into SDWAY was a brilliant addition. It gave/gives a "cool factor" to the show; where, it actually serves as an endearing element of 1970s nostalgia WITHOUT the dumb, self-reverential constant PARODYING most of the remakes -and widespread memories- almost strangle the heart out of the show with now (because it has become "a brand").