Daffy's Southern Exposure title music

[Fredrik]

Following the passing of Norm McCabe I have been watching some of his cartoons, and was surprised to notice that the title music on my copy of Daffy's Southern Exposure is this (http://bosko.toonzone.net/titles/looney4.ram). Is that correct? Considering when it was released, I think it should be The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down.

Besides, does anyone have good looking digital copies of McCabe's cartoons? Most of my copies look pretty crappy, and I'm missing a few. I'd be happy to trade to help out anyone who can help me with this. (I have most of the LT/MM cartoon library.)

[Timber Wolf]

No. That is the 36-37 Looney Tunes music. When Sunset Productions (Guild Films) bought the black & white Looney Tunes, they dubbed this music over the original themes.

[Marty26]

Why did they do that anyway? They also made several other redubs with the opening music for these cartoons. For example, The Timid Toreador (1940) was given the 1937-1938 opening music and Fish Tales (1936) was given that same opening music.

[J Lee]

Wasn't done by Sunset -- Warner Bros. themselves redubbed the music when the cartoons were remastered for colorization in the 1990-92 period.

The reason the cartoons needed new music is because when Warners sold the cartoons in the 1950s, Sunset clipped off the opening WB logo on the cartoons, as well as clipping off the music on a number of the B&W Looney Tunes. The 1968 redrawns used those clipped openings, with the correct music, but for some reason (just playing around appears to be the most likely answer), when the shorts were remastered to restore the WB opening logo, on a number of the cartoons, the wrong opening music was attached.

"Fish Tales," "Porky and Daffy", "The Chewin' Bruin", "A Coy Decoy," "Porky's Prize Pony", "Notes to You", "Porky's Cafe", "Porky's Midnight Matinee" and "The Impatient Patient" are among the other cartoons that had the wrong opening music reattched when the cartoons were remastered for computer colorization. A few, including "Daffy's Southern Exposure" also have the wrong closing Porky-drum image (using the 1937 one for the most part, though Tashlin's "Porky the Fireman" had the 1939 Clampett unit ending attached).

"Porky Pig's Feat" was one of the cartoons with a clipped opening music from the 1950s, but when it was remastered in 1990, the correct opening theme was attached, as it was "The Daffy Duckaroo" and "Puss N' Booty (probably because they all open with the concentric circles title). But the remastering attached the 1937 Porky ending to those shorst, a problem that was corrected on "PPF" when it came out last year on Golden Collection III. Hopefully, if any of those other cartoons make it onto future editions of the Golden Collection, Warners will go in with an audio and video editor and restore them to the way they originally sounded and looked.

(Just one addition -- "The Timid Toreador" always began with the 1937-38 LT title music, even on the original B&W and the redrawn versions. The cartoon came out during a time when Carl Stalling was experimenting with variations on both the LT and the MM title music, before settling on the familar early 1940s versions in mid-1941. The opening music for "Joe Glow the Firefly" and the closing music for "The Sour Puss" and "The Cat's Tail" are other examples of unusual opening/closing music from late 1940 and early 1941.)