tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post942390002537353947..comments2024-03-28T21:16:57.556-07:00Comments on Yowp: Augie Doggie — High and FlightyYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-82117828849225806982012-01-31T09:02:48.700-08:002012-01-31T09:02:48.700-08:00I can't discount it, Steve. But it also sounds...I can't discount it, Steve. But it also sounds like De Francesco's stuff, too.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-36371903679689358312012-01-30T21:01:57.212-08:002012-01-30T21:01:57.212-08:00You know, I'm wondering for the last few days ...You know, I'm wondering for the last few days if the happy string music that we've been trying to identify [also in "Skunk you Very Much"] isn't some Valentino Film Music Library cue by George S.Chase from the.<br /><br />StevePokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-21580756154382579392011-04-19T19:56:29.629-07:002011-04-19T19:56:29.629-07:00Rod, I meant to mention that. I'm under the im...Rod, I meant to mention that. I'm under the impression Bick designed the flying cars for that show.<br /><br />J.L., I simply thought the cutter did what I used to do when I needed production music in a hurry .. went with the beds at the top of my head. After all, late afternoon/early evening had been populated with old Fleischer Popeyes which aren't exactly filled with tea, crumpets and polite chatter.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-23781465538763275472011-04-19T16:49:00.883-07:002011-04-19T16:49:00.883-07:00"Yowp-Yowp" Dodsworth,
Seeing Augie abo..."Yowp-Yowp" Dodsworth,<br /><br />Seeing Augie aboard of a flying saucer, makes looking like a foresight for <i>The Jetsons</i>, which Hanna-Barbera would produce three years after.rodineisilveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751345474415214163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-74718557393463952622011-04-17T05:59:25.553-07:002011-04-17T05:59:25.553-07:00The 1960 Bickenbachs did have some of the best Ger...The 1960 Bickenbachs did have some of the best German cartoon engineering around. ;)<br /><br />"Hasty Hare" was Maltese's first foray into flying saucers landing on Earth, though "Rocket-By Baby" is obviously the template for this short. The scene with Daddy at the Army base is supposed to mirror Mr. Wilbur (Daws as the daddy here) as he falls out the window of the skyscraper trying to keep Mot from returning to Mars on his own. But since that was a one-shot theatrical cartoon playing to adult audiences and this was designed for the late-afternoon/early-evening kiddie hours, that might be a reason why they decided to give the game away with "Hearts and Flowers", because even if it was only temporary, they didn't want the kids at home to seriously get into the idea that Auggie was gone forever.J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-77608918106570276752011-04-16T08:59:59.079-07:002011-04-16T08:59:59.079-07:00I'm glad to see this.
This one always remind...I'm glad to see this.<br /><br /><br />This one always reminded me of "Rocket Bye Baby" when I started seeing the latter short [written of course by the same genius writer:)]<br />around 1974, years after I'd for millions of times seen ALL of the "Augies", and that gas station attendant scene is, as you said, straight out of "Roughly Squeaking".<br /><br />As for the hammy sad music at the end, no question about it--Victor Lamont's arrangement of "Hearts and Flowers" is as hammy as it gets (maybe if that other standard sad tune about flowers, used with "Hearts and Flowers" so often in pre-Hanna-Barbera theatricals, "The Flower Song", if such an arrangement exists, it woulnd't have been any better.)<br /><br />But as I've always said, regarding the last two:<br />(the sad trombone music)<br />I don't know----as I've always cited, I've always had a soft spot for that one (the first cartoon here using it was one of those with the part violin arrangement, "Lamb Chopped"), but the final, happy, piece, the reprise of Jack Shaindlin's cue "Fireman" definitely WAS an excellent choice.<br /><br />It's funny that the pilots at around :43-4:00<br />, know Augie is a dog and make a beeline with their plane for who knows where, almost violating a cartoon logic rule[:)],but--- the Air Force officials at 5:14 just go about the business and act more like cartoon humans in a bipedal talking animal world would [this is typical of a lot of these Augies..]<br /><br />Incidentally, one more thing--in the scene at 5:14 when those pilots realize it's a dog in a flying sacuer, they say the thing would characterize that LATER era of Hanna-Barbera--the pilots in unison do one of the earliest uses of the Hanna-Barbera "Let's Get Outta Here' [later a standard 12 years later in all those "Meddling Kids" series] . I can't recall it any earlier except Huckleberry or Jinks sayin' I'm a gettin' outta here.<br /><br />Glad to finally see this one reviewed...Steve C.http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001249396142noreply@blogger.com