WACKY WEDNESDAY: Some Favorite Cartoon Themes

No, it's not Saturday morning, it's Wacky Wednesday. But this week I'm going to share some of my favorite cartoon theme songs.

Sometimes at night when I go to bed and close my eyes, these songs play in my head. Taunting me.

Some of the lyrics were inspirational to me. For instance I always aspired to live up to the Yogi Bear credo: "He will sleep to noon but before it's dark, he'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park."

Somehow I fell short of that. Oh well, on with the show, cartoon pals.




There were a couple of Rocky & Bullwinkle themes, (This one had the best sound quality of what was available on YouTube



Listen to the next one and try NOT to think of Andy Kaufman



Thank you for your service, Beetle Bailey!



This next one actually was aired at night. Big time!



And here's my spiritual guide, El Oso Yogi.



And don't forget my Popeye Serenade in a Wacky Wednesday earlier this year. CLICK HERE

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Paddys to ya!

Take a little time to enjoy some good Celt rock via the YouTube.








Let's start with a Marvel team-up of the band that basically started Celt rock and a venerated traditional Irish folk group: The Pogues and The Dubliners



Here's some Dropkick Murphys



I say this next one is Black 47's greatest song,



Flogging Molly



Below is my favorite Hungarian Celt-rock band.



The Mahones



And if you've made it this far, slow down a minute and take in this beautiful weeper:



And don't forget to check out the story of "Brennan on the Moor" last Throwback Thursday.

And if this ain't enough, check out my Celt Rock Spotify playlist The Paddy Wagon.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 15, 2015 
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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, March 13, 2015 
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM 
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell 
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo  by Buck Owens
Back in the Saddle by Gene Autry
Lost in the Ozone by Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen
Rainy Day Woman by Waylon Jennings
Georgia on a Fast Train by Billy Joe Shaver

Heartaches by the Number by Ray Price, Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard

Hogs on the Highway by Bad Livers

Take You Down by Texas Martha & The House of Twang

Long Road by Alice Wallace

Trucker Country by Erich McMann

White Dress by Anthony Leon & The Chain

The Ballad of the Alamo by Marty Robbins

Don't Remember Me by The Misery Jackals

Cheap Motels by Southern Culture on the Skids

Stuck in the Mud by Deano Waco & The Meat Purveyors 

Too Hot to Handle by Bryan Deere

Banshee by Ed Sanders

For Every Glass That's Empty by Pine Hill Haints

Hot Dog Baby by Hasil Adkins

I Love to Yodel by Carolina Cotton

Small Ya'll by George Jones

Poor Joe by Audrey Auld

Be a Little Quieter by Porter Wagoner

Naked Light of Day by Butch Hancock 

Truck Stop by the Liquor Store by the Highway by Kevin Deal

Santa Fe by Augie Meyers

Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town by Jason & The Scorchers

The Day Bartender by Al Duval

My Old Man Boogie by Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Not a Song by Jim White vs The Packway Handle Band

The Western Lands by Slackeye Slim

Knoxville Girl by The Louvin Brothers

Highway Cafe by Tom Waits

A Preacher and a Girl of the Night by Jimmy Patton

CLOSING THEME Comin' Down by the Meat Puppets


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Later That Lifetime: An Update for The Roots of Picnic Time for Potatoheads

Back in 2011, when Spotify was new to these United States, I embarked upon a little "exercise in self-indulgence" and created a Spotify playlist of songs "that were parodied, stolen, alluded to, mentioned in passing in or somehow have a spiritual connection" with tunes on my 1981 smash hit album Picnic Time For Potatoheads.

Posting about that Spotify list on this very blog, I quipped, "If the album actually ever had been successful, here are some of the lawsuits I would have faced."

I thought about that list and the blog post tonight while reading a rant by my friend John Egenes posted on Facebook concerning a lawsuit over music copyrights.

I recalled my blog post, so I looked it up and re-read the thing. (And I fixed a four-year-old typo I hadn't noticed before.)

The entry about "My True Story" by The Jive Five said:

This song itself didn't directly inspire "The Green Weenie," but it's part of the great Doo-Wop Collective Consciousness that did. (I was disappointed that the Frank Zappa catalogue is not on Spotify. My first choice would have been a Ruben & The Jets tune in honor of the late Jimmy Carl Black, who played on "The Green Weenie.")

It occurred to me that in more recent times, I had seen Zappa on Spotify.

So what the hell, I updated it with my favorite Ruben song "Later That Night."

It's the last one on the playlist



I'm keeping the Jive Five tune on there just because it's such a great song.

And here is the song Ruben & The Jets inspired (drums by the late, great Jimmy Carl Black!)