Which episode has your favourite soundtrack?

[moonscar]

I know Ted Nichols underscore is recycled throughout most outings but I think it's fair to say that each episode has a unique vibe, thanks to the soundtrack.

"Mine Your Own Business" has a very cool and fitting score that's very unique to that episode and the old West setting and may just take my pick as the best of the series. "Haunted House Hang-Up" is also in the running, though. I especially love the eerie music that plays when the gang enters the mansion and spots the floating candle. It's so distinctive!

[Doo]

I would pick "Haunted House Hang Up" simply for the eerie music when the gang goes in the mansion like you mentioned. It really makes the episode's soundtrack stand out from the rest!

[moonscar]

Sept 19, 2021 10:00:24 GMT -5 Doo said:

I would pick "Haunted House Hang Up" simply for the eerie music when the gang goes in the mansion like you mentioned. It really makes the episode's soundtrack stand out from the rest!

youtu.be/8h3A7xXGYAY

1:15:35 minutes in is that exact eerie soundtrack we are both referencing. Quite cool to hear it on its own.

[wileyk209]

Heh, it's kind of hard to pick for a show that keeps reusing the same background music cues over and over! But I can point out how "What a Night for a Knight" and "Mine Your Own Business" did introduce many of the recurring music cues, in many cases being scored specifically for said episodes. This is particularly obvious with the Black Knight chase and capture in the former (the way the music matches up to Scooby and Shaggy crawling on the floor as if it were a Carl Stalling Looney Tunes soundtrack). The same for several of the "Mine Your Own Business" cues that tended to implement "My Darling Clementine" into the score (to go with the Ghost Town setting), the scene with the cigar store Indian featuring a couple of Native American-sounding motifs (that would later often be edited out of the cue when used starting some time in the second season) or the music piece that plays when they bribe Scooby with the Scooby Snacks before entering the hotel elevator (complete with "Chicken Reel" briefly playing when Scooby acts like a chicken), or when Shaggy and Scooby pretend to be a train to chase the Miner '49er into Fred's trap (incorporating "I've Been Working On The Railroad" into the score).
But of course, in addition to Ted Nichols's original compositions he'd also recycle some older Hanna-Barbera underscore, especially dramatic music pieces from "The Adventures of Gulliver" and "The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," along with some other pieces if need be (like his circus theme from "The Secret Squirrel Show" and "The Flintstones," or Hoyt Curtin's circus acrobatics theme from "Wacky Races"). I know "Hassle in the Castle" had a unique soundtrack as it only had a few of the newly-composed cues in favor of largely using the older 1968 Ted Nichols cues. Subsequent episodes that season like "What the Hex Is Going On?", "Never Ape an Ape Man" and "The Backstage Rage" had a nice blend of the original Scooby-Doo compositions and the older music cues.

[moonscar]

Sept 19, 2021 13:42:34 GMT -5 wileyk209 said:

Heh, it's kind of hard to pick for a show that keeps reusing the same background music cues over and over! But I can point out how "What a Night for a Knight" and "Mine Your Own Business" did introduce many of the recurring music cues, in many cases being scored specifically for said episodes. This is particularly obvious with the Black Knight chase and capture in the former (the way the music matches up to Scooby and Shaggy crawling on the floor as if it were a Carl Stalling Looney Tunes soundtrack). The same for several of the "Mine Your Own Business" cues that tended to implement "My Darling Clementine" into the score (to go with the Ghost Town setting), the scene with the cigar store Indian featuring a couple of Native American-sounding motifs (that would later often be edited out of the cue when used starting some time in the second season) or the music piece that plays when they bribe Scooby with the Scooby Snacks before entering the hotel elevator (complete with "Chicken Reel" briefly playing when Scooby acts like a chicken), or when Shaggy and Scooby pretend to be a train to chase the Miner '49er into Fred's trap (incorporating "I've Been Working On The Railroad" into the score).
But of course, in addition to Ted Nichols's original compositions he'd also recycle some older Hanna-Barbera underscore, especially dramatic music pieces from "The Adventures of Gulliver" and "The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," along with some other pieces if need be (like his circus theme from "The Secret Squirrel Show" and "The Flintstones," or Hoyt Curtin's circus acrobatics theme from "Wacky Races"). I know "Hassle in the Castle" had a unique soundtrack as it only had a few of the newly-composed cues in favor of largely using the older 1968 Ted Nichols cues. Subsequent episodes that season like "What the Hex Is Going On?", "Never Ape an Ape Man" and "The Backstage Rage" had a nice blend of the original Scooby-Doo compositions and the older music cues.

Great, in-depth answer!

[cartoonlover]

Nowhere to Hyde has a great soundtrack.

[matt]

Mine Your Own Business did stand out. I’d have to really think about this though