“...You ever just listen to the old Loony Tunes cartoons?...”
Oh HELL yeah! They are some of my all-time favorite soundtracks... the best cartoon soundtracks ever!
“Long Haired Hare” is hilarious... “The Rabbit of Seville”... they were classics. And not only the classical music, but also just folk music and popular tunes of the day were prevalent in those cartoons.
They represent an animated slice of life from that time period. Hence, the left hates them, and wants them removed.
Like the original Jonny Quest... (Hanna-Barbara, 1964)
I discovered that the cartoons had classical music while riding around in my car a long time ago. I tuned the FM dial all the way to the left and the radio picked up sound from the high frequency tv signal. Interesting to be able to listen to the audio of tv shows on a car radio.
I remember first noticing the connection between the music in old WB cartoons and some 78rpm Raymond Scott Quintet records I had. The cartoons used to utilize a riff from the Scott tune “Powerhouse” quite often, as I recall.