For decades, many American children spent their Saturday mornings watching hours and hours of cartoons. With bowls of Frosted Flakes piled high, they stared at their cathode-ray tube televisions, ...
Good cartoons are hard to make. Creators must introduce a whole new world to the viewer, find voice actors that give life to 2D characters and remain humorous while doing so, but they also need to ...
The current sound of children’s television animation has expanded notably with composer Ego Plum’s score to the Nickelodeon series Harvey Beaks, in which electronics and guitars fuse with the sound of ...
Fans of classical music and jazz, who also appreciate classic cartoons, are in for a real treat. The Queen’s Cartoonists, who perform live in front of a screen where cartoons from the past 100 years ...
On February 20, 1937, Raymond Scott first recorded a tune called “Powerhouse.” You may not know it by name, but you’ll recognize the melody, which has been used in cartoons for 80 years. It was used ...
Texas musician Scott Bradley was never widely known outside of the studio, but his music was the heart of some of the most iconic American cultural icons of the twentieth century, most notably, the ...
Starting in the 90s, Cartoon Network Groovies fused new and old cartoons with music. Songs included "Josie and the Pussycats in Musical Evolution" and "Go Monkey! Go!" Years later, artists spoke with ...