Prep your ears for a walk through your childhood. Check out this video of the Carnegie Hall Ensemble Orchestra as they perform 43 cartoon theme songs in five minutes. From the playful Powerpuff Girls tune to the powerful ballad of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the orchestra doesn’t miss a beat when it comes to mashing together the melodies of our youth.
The video below isn’t just a pleasure for your ears, but your eyes are in for a treat with cleverly placed visual cues.
I’m definitely guilty of staying in every Saturday morning as I was able to name at least 40 of those tunes. Think you can name all 43 tunes? Give your guesses in the comments below.
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Adding to EdW
#5 Neon Genesis Evangelion
#24 Rugrats
Pokemon
powerpuff girls
Catdog
Family Guy
pink panther
spider man
Dexters Laboratory
Adventure time
Babar
Madeline
Smurfs
The Rugrats
Dora the explorer
Sponge bob square pants
The Simpsons
Yuh-Gi Yo!
TMNT
Dave the Barbarian
Johnny Bravo
The Animaniacs
The Chipmunks
BOBBYS WORLD
The Jetson
The Flintstones
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
The graphics gave you clues to the songs. Right?
My best attempt:
1. Avatar
2. Pokemon
3. Captain Planet
4. X-Men
5. ??
6. PowerPuff Girls
7. South Park
8. CatDog
9. GI Joe
10. Family Guy
11. Pinky and the Brain
12. Pink Panther
13. ??
14. Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers
15. Spider-Man
16. Inspector Gaget
17. Dexter’s Lab
18. Adventure Time
19. Gummi Bears
20. Babar
21. Madaline
22. Smurfs
23. Doug
24. ??
25. Dora the Explorer
26. ??
27. Sponge-Bob
28. Futurerama / Magic School Bus together
29. Muppet Babies
30. The Simpsons
31. Charlie Brown (Peanuts)
32. ???
33. He-Man
34. ??? (by animation maybe Dragon Ball Z?)
35. Thundercats
36. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
37. Johnny Bravo
38. Animaniacs
39. Tiny Toons
40. ???
41. Ducktales
42. ???
43. Jetsons
44. Flintstones
45. Looney Toons
I heard, in no particular order, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Looney Tunes, Jetsons, Flintstones, Powerpuff Girls, Adventure Time, South Park, Doug, Rugrats, Pinky & the Brain, Family Guy, Spongebob Squarepants, Smurfs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Captain Planet, CatDog, Pink Panther, Dexter’s Laboratory, Spiderman, The Simpsons, The Peanuts, He-Man, Thundercats, Ducktales. Still missing a lot, but that’s the best I can do right now.
I instantly recognized about 2/3 of them! (Maybe I watch too much tv?!) I think they did an amazing job!
Rather, “Merrily We Roll Along”, not “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down”. Got my Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes themes mixed up.
They’re obviously extremely talented, and they’ve very good at the themes that are already dramtically musical and lend themselves to orchestration–things like the Animaniacs, or “The Merry Go Round Broke Down”.
However, when they needed to do a little more interpretation, the themes became almost unrecognizable.
I did appreciate the Dough theme and animations quite a lot, though.
Just listening to it I wouldn’t know what half of those songs were supposed to be.