The Carl Stalling Project: Music from Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958

by Carl Stalling

Overview

The first volume in The Carl Stalling Project series is a revelation; more than just an essential part of a Warner Bros. staff that generated some of the finest and most inspired productions in the history of animation, Stalling was a visionary whose work deserves consideration among the finest American avant-garde music ever recorded. As these 15 selections from WB cartoons dating between 1936 and 1958 attest, his cut and paste style -- a singular collision between jazz, classical, pop, and virtually everything else in between -- was unprecedented in its utter disregard for notions of time, rhythm, and compositional development; Stalling didn't just break the rules, he made them irrelevant. That in the process he created music beloved by succeeding generations of children is more impressive still -- perhaps even unwittingly, Stalling introduced the avant-garde into the mainstream, and as popular music continues to diversify and hybridize, his stature as a pioneer rightfully continues to grow. ~ Jason Ankeny

Product Details

Release Date:	07/17/1990
Label:	Warner Bros.
UPC:	0075992602723

Tracks

1. Putty Tat Trouble, film score~Part 6
2. Hillbilly Hare, film score~excerpts
3. Work(s)~Early WB Scores: The Depression Era
4. The Good Egg, film score~excerpts
5. Work(s)~Various Cues from Bugs Bunny Films
6. There They Go Go Go, film score
7. Work(s)~Stalling Self-Parody: Music from Porky's Preview
8. Work(s)~Anxiety Montage
9. Work(s)~Stalling: The War Years
10. Work(s)~Medley: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals
11. Work(s)~Carl Stalling with Milt Franklyn in session
12. Work(s)~Speedy Gonzalez Meets Two Crows from Tacos
13. Work(s)~Powerhouse and Other Cuts from the Early '50s
14. Work(s)~Porky in Wackyland / Dough for the Do Do
15. To Itch His Own, film score

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Carl Stalling   Primary Artist
Carl Stalling Project   Primary Artist
Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra   Orchestra

Technical Credits

John Zorn   Liner Notes,Production Consultant
Scott Hull   Editing,Noise Reduction
Tom Recchion   Design,Art Direction
Hal Willner   Producer,Liner Notes
Will Friedwald   Production Advisor
Raymond Scott   Composer
Chris Chigaridas   Transfers
Susan Jacobs   Project Manager
Hank Waring   Transfers
Pam Bartella   Mixing
John Purcell   Editing
Bob Ludwig   Mastering
Carl Stalling   Composer
Brian O'Laughlin   Transfers
Rick Gehr   Research
Steven Baker   Supervisor
Stu Yahm   Transfers
Dick Blackburn   Liner Notes
John Janios   Transfers
Greg Ford   Executive Producer,Liner Notes