Yogi Bear got into the spirit of Christmas (the secular, not religious version), though not on his TV show. A couple of storybooks with Yuletide Yogi were published in the early ‘60s. One was a Little Golden Book which we reprinted in an old post. The other was “Yogi Bear Helps Santa,” a 1962 publication by Whitman Press. The artist was Lee Branscome, who later animated Jonny Quest. It seems to me he had been an in-betweener at Warners; correct me if that’s wrong.
Instead of posting all the pages here, I shall be as lazy as someone who has just feasted on a Christmas turkey and link to a copy at archive.org.
Christmas is not something I celebrate but in the past I’ve posted music and other things as my gifts to you for coming here and reading what I, rather unacademically, have to say. The blog actually ended regular posts in mid-2019 but, as you can see, I have continued with occasional entries here and there. So it is that you’re getting another music post out of me.
This music is courtesy of the late Earl Kress. He dubbed these (judging by the hiss, onto cassette) when he was working on various Hanna-Barbera music projects. It’s a little tough keeping track of what’s been posted on this blog before, but I don’t believe these have been, or appeared in commercial H-B music releases.
Before we get there, let us ask the musical question: have you bought Greg Ehrbar’s book on Hanna-Barbera’s music? You must read this. It has all kinds of information you didn’t know, starting with Scott Bradley’s scores for Bill and Joe at MGM, to the Capitol and Langlois stock music in the first TV cartoons, to Hoyt Curtin and Ted Nichols, to Colgems/Golden Records, to the studio’s decision to get into the rock music business. You can get it right from the publisher, the University Press of Mississippi. It is worth the money.
I don’t have cue sheets, so I cannot tell you if Curtin gave all these cues names. However, a few of them had names when slated.
J-112
J-128
J-200 BOSS'S THEME
J-202
J-205 ROCK AND ROLL
J-206
J-210 ROSEY THE ROBOT ALTERNATE
J-220 JUDY IS SAD
J-220 GEORGE'S THEME
J-228
J-231
J-257
J-258
J-261
JW-10
Now, here’s a piece of music I’d love to post but I have never seen it. A saxophonist named Dave Ede was inspired by Mr. Jinks and the Twist craze popularized by Chubber Checker to come up with “Twistin’ Those Meeces To Pieces”. Ede was the host of the BBC radio’s Go Man Go show. He got together the Rabin Band and together they played a David Wilkinson-composed twist version of “Three Blind Mice.” It was released in mid-1962. Has anyone heard it?
This has been a mixed year for early Hanna-Barbera fans. We have fortunately seen the Blu-ray release of all cartoons in the Huckleberry Hound Show. Seasons two and three had been partly hung up for years because of clearing music composed by Bill Loose and Jack Shaindlin. Unfortunately, we lost writer Tony Benedict and layout artist Jerry Eisenberg this year to failing health.
This blog is still considered finished, but there will be a few posts into the new year.
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