Scooby-Doo: The Original Session Masters CD!
Jul 5, 2020 21:54:58 GMT -5
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Post by wileyk209 on Jul 5, 2020 21:54:58 GMT -5
I know over a year ago we were able to access much of the famous "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" underscore music tracks by Ted Nichols and several "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" tracks by Hoyt Curtin, along with a few other rare H-B tracks, but just recently someone uploaded this rare promotional CD to Archive.org!
Don't be fooled by the "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" artwork. This CD, produced in 1998 by Warner Bros., contained pristine high-quality recordings of those Ted Nichols music tracks! Along with a bunch of other rare session stuff, much of it unused in the series, and many of them utilizing weird theremin sounds. It was falsely attributed to Hoyt Curtin, perhaps because he scored many more H-B cartoons than Ted Nichols did (and quite a bit of his stuff, like the music cues for "The Flintstones," "The Jetsons," "The Yogi Bear Show" and "Jonny Quest" HAVE been released on CD a few times before), and because he reused many of those tracks in "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" and "The Scooby-Doo Show" in addition to his own compositions.
archive.org/details/scoobydootheoriginalsessionmasters/
Just listen! They sound so much better than the older source that ripped them from audiotape or whatever.
This CD was presumably made for Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network employees, and I assume it got used in stuff like some of the WB/Cartoon Network Scooby-Doo bumpers that would utilize the old score (such as the "Scooby Universe" bumpers), along with "Night of the Living Doo" and the "Time Squad" episode "White House Weirdness."
Out of the "unknown"-labeled tracks, I do know Track 26 was used in the show. Also note Track 20, while apparently unused in any of the original shows, Gigi Meroni and Rich Dickerson actually remade it alongside the other older Nichols cues for use in the first season of "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" and the "Legend of the Vampire" and "Monster of Mexico" direct-to-video movies! Now THAT'S an amazing discovery, as I always thought Meroni and Dickerson were basically adapting the last third of "M15, Take 33."
I hope you all enjoy and use these!
Don't be fooled by the "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" artwork. This CD, produced in 1998 by Warner Bros., contained pristine high-quality recordings of those Ted Nichols music tracks! Along with a bunch of other rare session stuff, much of it unused in the series, and many of them utilizing weird theremin sounds. It was falsely attributed to Hoyt Curtin, perhaps because he scored many more H-B cartoons than Ted Nichols did (and quite a bit of his stuff, like the music cues for "The Flintstones," "The Jetsons," "The Yogi Bear Show" and "Jonny Quest" HAVE been released on CD a few times before), and because he reused many of those tracks in "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" and "The Scooby-Doo Show" in addition to his own compositions.
archive.org/details/scoobydootheoriginalsessionmasters/
Just listen! They sound so much better than the older source that ripped them from audiotape or whatever.
This CD was presumably made for Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network employees, and I assume it got used in stuff like some of the WB/Cartoon Network Scooby-Doo bumpers that would utilize the old score (such as the "Scooby Universe" bumpers), along with "Night of the Living Doo" and the "Time Squad" episode "White House Weirdness."
Out of the "unknown"-labeled tracks, I do know Track 26 was used in the show. Also note Track 20, while apparently unused in any of the original shows, Gigi Meroni and Rich Dickerson actually remade it alongside the other older Nichols cues for use in the first season of "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" and the "Legend of the Vampire" and "Monster of Mexico" direct-to-video movies! Now THAT'S an amazing discovery, as I always thought Meroni and Dickerson were basically adapting the last third of "M15, Take 33."
I hope you all enjoy and use these!