RIP John Seely 1923-2004--The music on the show

[Steve Carras]

Belated perhaps (though IIRC I posted on part of this here before!)..

I have thanks to a friend and collector who is a part of the ROBERT FARNON (broither of Dennis and David(?)) SOCIETY in ENGLAND a lot of the musicx on this and if you go the http://www.apmmusic.com I think you will recall a lot of the music if you go to down to the left below corner (scroll to..) LIBRARIES AND COVER ART, then click that, then go to CINEMUSIC and click on specificially the COMEDY and LIGHT ACTIVITY boxes and you might be surprised.

Of course many other shows used the music and other cues (AUGIE DOGGIE,in paritcular at HB, DENNIS producer SCREEN GEMS sister through COLUMBIA PICTURES for many years since inception till Taft bought Hanna-Barbera in 1966), employed cues from (now "Carlin Archives" archived) Emil Cadkin and Harry Bluestone--Cakdin wrote with Jack Cookerly and William Loose many cues that were used on many teleivison shows and according to another site, THE HISTORI OF PRODUCTION MUSIC (manaaged by David Shields) Cadkin< Cooekerly and Loose wrote several OZZIE AND HARRIET themes, even (as H-B's Snagglepuss would say).,

Brief history--one has to trace a prehistory here back to the pioneer, Sam Fox, music packager and to 1940s libraries like Jack Shaindlin (Cinemusic,then Langlois) and Alexander Laszo and EMI Prod.Music UK which really evne more flourished in the fifties then the evne newer ones then like MuTEL,etc, Seely, aknown pianist from Oakland who had just gotten out of the war when Capitol Records started,joined that label in heading up "music transcriptions" (these were doen for raido and for the libraries mentioned and others.)

jack Shaindlin, either through Seely an an early customer or separately, was a major pioneering supplier of this stuff on many old shows..you would not ever beleive how I'd stumble into OZZIE AND HARRIET thinking it was a Meeces short (because some Shaindlin or Laszlo piece was used--not to mention by others I'll get to),for instance or the double take that I did in the 1990s when the old B&W TOPPER (Leo G Caroll, Robert Stelring, Anne JEffries,& Lee patrick) reran and I heard osme YOGI BEAR cues. )

Anyhow, JohN Seely then started the in house music services that still lincsed the aofre mentioned Shaindlin, and really started picking up on Philip Green's EMI (which HAD to have a CAPITOL relationship going), whose cues really starting being sued. George Hormel and tohers (whose cues I would also pick on hearing on OZZIE, DENNIS,etc.shows)( would be used.

Many LIGHT, DRAMATIC,etc. music albums (LP's and reels) were issued,

Composers included Seely, Loose, Cadkin and Bluestone, Philip Green, Spencer Moore, A.Laszlo, Chudnow and Son(not to be confused with SANFORD0 (who had ealier formed the previously mentioned MuTEL), Clarence Wheeler (yes, the man listed as the music guy for Walter Lantz!), Loius DeFrancesca, Mahlon Leg.Merrick,Henry Russell,CookerlyJack Belasco, David Buttolph,,Ed Lund, Roger Roger,etc.,etc.

Another phase came without reissues of these and tracks form Sam Fox librayr,credited EXCCLUSIVELY to "Cadkin-Loose'Green" but my friend the collector foudn otu it was Cookerly-Loose-Cadkin".

In the 1960s "Ole Georg" from Europe took over--he retained the cues..at leats thru 1996 or 95 but our story ends for now with Seely's leaving.

Supposedly, "The Hollyridge Strings" or "The Hollywood Pops' were sued.

Some favorites of mine on DENNIS
First and formeost, of course, the theme, by IRVING FRIEDMAN (John Seely)--famously used in the ROADRUNNER-HOOK LINE AND STINKER when Seely had the Capitol Hi Q and EMI Photoplay Library used due to a music strike (strangely I never heard any of Shaindlin/Langlkois in these)

DONNA REED theme by Bill Loose (5-TC-5c or something..CAPITOL and other libraries of this nature had these codes--"number on album/composer code (TC meaning LOOSE AND SEELY-and number in a procession of related cues)--came form "May Loo" publishers Title,btw was HAPPY DAYS (NOT like in the sitocm!)

POPCORN AKa COMEDY WALKER -by Philip Green [EMI Photoplay library]---One of the most LOVED of those, used in:
=As opening music===
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Used regularly at start of:
SUPER SNOOPER AND BLABBER MNOUSE [Hanna-Barbera;from QUICK DRAW McGRAW]
MY THREE SONS [B&W seaosns w.William Frawley and airing on ABC ONLY!]
FOGHORN LEGHORN-WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK [one of six infamous ones made during a music strike in Hollywood in 1958 and thus scored, shall we speka, accordingly]

Also at other junctures in
======ADULT SWIM'S version of BOO BOO-BOO BOO AND THE MAN
[when boo Boo, voice dby "John K",creator of Ren and Stimpy,m decided to mace peace with his
enemeies"]
and in DENNIS,and thus staying on topic in an episode about a hamster!

Outside of DENNIS,I always liked the Jack Shaindlin themes [LANGLOIS[ used in DENNIS producer Colbuma Screen gems-s subsidiary Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons like YOGI [FUN ON ICE, heard in the classics BEARFACED DIGUISE and HOME SWEET JELLYSTONE, both instances at the end, uses brass and a light swinging 4/4/ seciton then slows down midway then picks bakc up][ and RELUCTANT ELEPHANT, I'D on CINEMUSIC at http://www.apmmusic.com as GROTESQUE #2 {many of these needledrops by Jack Shaindlin had changed titles) in HSW when ranger's replacement discusses Yogi's latest behaviour over phone--in cabin while Yogi and Boo Boo EVESDROP!] and Pixie and Ddixcie's PIXIE PRANKS..a playfully myserious fun and frolic tune also in Yoig's BIG BAD BULLY right at the start..with strings and flutes it is NOT titled after Pixie--of "& Dixie" Meeces infamy!--the tuen came first--so did another..

PIXIE COMEDY by John Seely himself and William loose [John Seely/Capitol]
used in countless HUCK,YOGI, PIXIE AND DIXIE and RUFF and REDDYand also midway thu Warner Bros. PREHYSTERICLA HARE but NEVER in any QUICK DRAW/SNOOPER/AUGIE short!

SKELTON IN THE CUPBOARD by Philip Green [EMI Photoplay London]--one of MANY wild est themes, sued as Quick Draw McDraw's wlakin g theme and in that one FOGHORN LEGHORN short I mention above, WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK when the loudmouth schnook puts Rudolph/Bambi antlets on his longtime canine nemesis.

MONORAIL (NO Disneyland endorsement implied! ) Jack Belasco [british Synchro] - used only in GUMBY---RAIN SPIRITS and OUTCASE MARBLES both from c.1957 at veyr start.

Since it is 12:40 a.m. I will add more later..

Read "Seely,mJohn" Oakland nastive in Google.

He certainly was a generous guy and that incodued fuirhtering the checks and careers of many composers. Yeah I know that I was writing about othes here but this was more of a exaplnation as to the operaiton here..I had psoted, I now reclal on him last here when he died..

[comedyfreak]

RIP John, thanks for your contribution to T.V.