Merrie Melodies

Ed forwarded the video below to everyone in the band the other day. It's one of the Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies shorts. They were great cartoon/music shorts and this one is a jazz take on the Three Little Pigs.

The gist is that the Big Bad Wolf keeps trying to join the pigs' band, but he sucks at trumpet. Who knew he was just another frustrated musician? I hadn't seen this since I was a kid:



'Ooo, ya cool! Ooo, ya cool! Ooo, ya cool man, cool!' Pretty funny stuff. Here's another good one where a note from 'The Blue Danube' gets drunk:



The music in these is really ingenious...