chasfh Posted June 16 Posted June 16 Leopold! This was the first time music ever made me laugh. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 16 Posted June 16 3 hours ago, chasfh said: Leopold! This was the first time music ever made me laugh. Thank you Warner Brothers and Loony Tunes for introducing a generation to classical music 1 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted June 17 Posted June 17 On 6/16/2026 at 11:00 AM, CMRivdogs said: Thank you Warner Brothers and Loony Tunes for introducing a generation to classical music "Leopold" - - as in Stokowski. Note Bugs breaking the baton in half and tossing it. Stowkowski was noted for abandoning use of the baton in favor of hand jestures. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 17 Posted June 17 4 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: "Leopold" - - as in Stokowski. Note Bugs breaking the baton in half and tossing it. Stowkowski was noted for abandoning use of the baton in favor of hand jestures. I still think "Kill the Wabbit" on Flight of the Valkyries Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted June 17 Author Posted June 17 On 6/16/2026 at 7:26 AM, chasfh said: Leopold! This was the first time music ever made me laugh. Ben Folds does this hand thing with the crowd to have them sing. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted June 17 Author Posted June 17 On 6/16/2026 at 7:26 AM, chasfh said: Leopold! This was the first time music ever made me laugh. Most of us heard classical music for the first time from cartoons Quote
chasfh Posted June 18 Posted June 18 2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said: Ben Folds does this hand thing with the crowd to have them sing. I saw Chick Corea in the 70s and he did that as well. Quote
Screwball Posted June 18 Posted June 18 (edited) Depending on what you go by, the Blues Brothers premiered in Chicago yesterday in 1980 and hit the box office on the 20th. One of the classics of all time. A buddy featured the soundtrack at his wedding. So many funny scenes. I'll bet if I wanted to watch it, even though it's 46 years old, I would have to pay. Spit! Edited June 18 by Screwball Quote
gehringer_2 Posted June 18 Posted June 18 1 hour ago, chasfh said: I saw Chick Corea in the 70s and he did that as well. Chick Corea played something that could be sung along with? Who knew? Quote
oblong Posted June 18 Posted June 18 11 hours ago, Screwball said: Depending on what you go by, the Blues Brothers premiered in Chicago yesterday in 1980 and hit the box office on the 20th. One of the classics of all time. A buddy featured the soundtrack at his wedding. So many funny scenes. I'll bet if I wanted to watch it, even though it's 46 years old, I would have to pay. Spit! I have that on my DVR. I have it on VHS, two copies. I have it on DVD, two copies. It's a movie i can put on at any time. I love it. The music scenes speak for themselves. So many little lines i use all the time. "Did you get my cheese whiz, boy?" "This is glue... strong stuff." "I hate Illinois Nazis" "A. Good country key". "We play both kinds, country and western" And the top one of them all is when they first encounter Aretha Franklin. There's a youtube video that shows the current state of all the locations in the Chicago area. A bucket list items is to visit all of them. 2 Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted June 18 Author Posted June 18 (edited) 22 hours ago, Screwball said: Depending on what you go by, the Blues Brothers premiered in Chicago yesterday in 1980 and hit the box office on the 20th. One of the classics of all time. A buddy featured the soundtrack at his wedding. So many funny scenes. I'll bet if I wanted to watch it, even though it's 46 years old, I would have to pay. Spit! Dan Aykroyd's origianl treatment, base script, would have made a 6-hour movie. I have one little gripe that I think they could digitally fix. When the Nazi car is falling from the sky, in the shot from above you can clearly see it's falling on an island of some kind. I think they could digitally put the city under the car now and I wish they would. I know, I know, it's a horrible nit-pick by me - just use my imagination, right? After 46 years I should get over it. I wonder how many cop cars they really destroyed. Probably 15 - just using the same cars over and over, but it looks like hundred in the movie. Editing mastery How many eggs did Paul Newman really eat in the Cool Hand Luke scene? Edited June 19 by Motor City Sonics Quote
Screwball Posted June 19 Posted June 19 (edited) 1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said: Dan Aykroyd's origianl treatment, base script, would have made a 6-hour movie. I have one little gripe that I think they could digitally fix. When the Nazi car is falling from the sky, in the shot from above you can clearly see it's falling on an island of some kind. I think they could digitally put the city under the car now and I wish they would. I know, I know, it's a horrible nit-pick by me - just use my imagination, right? After 46 years I should get over it. I wonder how many cop cars they really destroyed. Probably 15 - just using the same cars over and over, but it looks like hundred in the movie. Editing mastery How many eggs did Paul Newman really eat in the Cool Hand Luke scene? I think they messed that car drop scene up too. I just read the other day how many cars they destroyed in the movie - 103. Too funny. As funny as it was, the talent in the soundtrack was off the charts cool. Who couldn't like Cab Calloway and arguably the greatest women singer in Aretha. I can only imagine what set was like everyday they made that movie. Edited June 19 by Screwball Quote
oblong Posted June 19 Posted June 19 11 hours ago, Screwball said: I think they messed that car drop scene up too. I just read the other day how many cars they destroyed in the movie - 103. Too funny. As funny as it was, the talent in the soundtrack was off the charts cool. Who couldn't like Cab Calloway and arguably the greatest women singer in Aretha. I can only imagine what set was like everyday they made that movie. Because of that movie I always followed the careers of Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn. Steve passed away recently. Here's a cool video of them playing Green Onions... look how freakin' young they are. There's a great video where Cropper explains how they came up with this song. They were just jamming waiting on a singer to show up who they were supposed to play for. He was late so they were just killing time. Someone hit "record" 1 1 Quote
Screwball Posted June 19 Posted June 19 1 hour ago, oblong said: Because of that movie I always followed the careers of Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn. Steve passed away recently. Here's a cool video of them playing Green Onions... look how freakin' young they are. There's a great video where Cropper explains how they came up with this song. They were just jamming waiting on a singer to show up who they were supposed to play for. He was late so they were just killing time. Someone hit "record" And Green Onions was in the soundtrack of another classic - American Graffiti. Another great movie soundtrack. Great movie too. Probably have to pay to rent that too. Quote
LaceyLou Posted June 19 Posted June 19 Speaking of Looney Tunes.... the Wile E. Coyote/Bugs Bunny one that ends with the coyote giving Bugs a metal carrot and trying to get him by using a giant magnet has made me fall off of my chair laughing multiple times. Also like the ones with the martian and the one with the 6 inch elephant. Quote
Screwball Posted June 20 Posted June 20 5 hours ago, LaceyLou said: Speaking of Looney Tunes.... the Wile E. Coyote/Bugs Bunny one that ends with the coyote giving Bugs a metal carrot and trying to get him by using a giant magnet has made me fall off of my chair laughing multiple times. Also like the ones with the martian and the one with the 6 inch elephant. For those of us who grew up watching cartoons - old cartoons... I remember the Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner war. Beep beep. Then there was Elmer Fudd. ""Be vewy, vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits" and "Why, you wascally wabbit!" as he tried to blow him away. Giggle. The sheepdog and the Wolf. I remember one episode where those two quit at the end of the day and punched a time clock. "See you tomorrow Ralph, see you tomorrow Sam." Too funny. That was long ago when that was normal punching a clock. 1 Quote
chasfh Posted June 20 Posted June 20 On 6/18/2026 at 8:40 AM, oblong said: I have that on my DVR. I have it on VHS, two copies. I have it on DVD, two copies. It's a movie i can put on at any time. I love it. The music scenes speak for themselves. So many little lines i use all the time. "Did you get my cheese whiz, boy?" "This is glue... strong stuff." "I hate Illinois Nazis" "A. Good country key". "We play both kinds, country and western" And the top one of them all is when they first encounter Aretha Franklin. There's a youtube video that shows the current state of all the locations in the Chicago area. A bucket list items is to visit all of them. Never knew this video was out there, but just watched it and it’s a lot of fun, especially the city locations. The only quibble I have is with 530 W 18th St, where I ride my bike a lot—what they show as being today must be an alley near the address or something, not the actual street, which is a stretch of shops leading up to the Ryan and not a brick street. I know it’s been pushing 50 years, but man, things look so different today. Given how clean everything is, it’s hard to imagine just how gritty it was everywhere all the time back then. 1 Quote
chasfh Posted June 20 Posted June 20 21 hours ago, CMRivdogs said: For SB The dancing outside is the best. Quote
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