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The Music of Raymond Scott: Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights (1992)
Raymond Scott
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Lead Performance: Raymond Scott; Genre: Lounge
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Steve Daly
Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column
Written in the '30s and '40s as straitlaced swing tunes, Raymond Scott's frenetic melodies on The Music of Raymond Scott: Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights have been used in hundreds of old Warner Bros. cartoons. You'll instantly recognize the mechanistic ''Powerhouse'' and the cat-and-mouse dance, ''Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals,'' among others. Even divorced from animated antics, they're irresistibly loony. A
Posted Dec 04, 1992
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