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favorite theme music
Rich Finegan:
--- Quote from: FineBari3 on December 09, 2010, 08:43:47 AM ---I like the mice version that started while Curly was still in the group. It is the first one that uses the fast, swing ending. I believe there are a couple versions similar to that, going all the way to the end (just like Shemp_Deisel says!).
....Rich Finegan, here's your cue!
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I think the swing version you mean is the one used for Stooges shorts released from mid-1944 to early 1945. That's what I also consider the "swingin-est" version.
Like some of the other pre-1947 versions of "Three Blind Mice" that one was arranged by Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland.
FineBari3:
--- Quote from: Rich Finegan on December 11, 2010, 07:31:25 AM ---I think the swing version you mean is the one used for Stooges shorts released from mid-1944 to early 1945. That's what I also consider the "swingin-est" version.
Like some of the other pre-1947 versions of "Three Blind Mice" that one was arranged by Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland.
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Yes, that is the one I like the the best! You are right; it is the swingin-est!
Lefty:
My favorite was hands-down the speedy version from 1942 to early 1944. When I wrote down all of the titles of the shorts in the 1970s, which is how I found out that there were 190 of them, I noted which episodes had that version of Three Blind Mice, and I had my tape recorder ready to catch it a couple of times.
Dunrobin:
We need one of you talented people to capture each of the different opening themes as mp3s that we could feature in the Multimedia Gallery, along with which episodes used them. ;D
Bum:
I find the 1945-47 version of "Three Blind Mice" depressing because I associate it with the "sick Curly" shorts. It's an amazing coincidence that the first short on which it was used [If a Body Meets a Body] also happened to be the first short where Curly is drastically different in appearance/voice/mannerisms. Even when I hear it on the first few Shemp films, it still makes me think of Curly struggling the previous two years. When the newer recording appeared on the fourth or fifth Shemp, to me it almost signals the close of a dark era and the beginning of a happy new one [the "classic Shemp" period].
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