Name that cartoon music

[ThoughtVelocity]

Ok, this may be hard to answer, but this is driving me absolutely nuts!!! I need help please!! With Looney Tunes in particular, there is a classical music piece that is played when shots of people or other things are working frantically and methodically. All I know is it is not the Sabre Dance, but that's on the right track. I wish there was a website you could hum to and have it match the song. Hmmmm?! Anyone have some leads?

[Indefatigable]

You might also try 'Flight of the Bumblebee'. That's a similar piece.

Here's a page (with no credits, sadly) of wav samples of music that's been used in Looney Tunes stuff: http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Music.html

The piece I was thinking of when you said people and things working frantically and methodically seems to be called "Powerhouse", and there are several samples of it in there... whenever I hear it I think of the toothpick factory skit, where huge trees were being cut down and then whittled by machine into individual toothpicks.

[ThoughtVelocity]

Excellent, Thank you!!! It was not 'Flight of the Bumblebee' but the song was on that site. It was 'Powerhouse'. It must have been a song made special for the cartoon. Thank you so much Now I can worry about important things.

[Indefatigable]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott

This is the composer, in case you still can't sleep. None of his music was written as cartoon soundtracks; Warner Bros. bought the rights to the music in the 1940s (the band had been together for a few years in the late '30s) and used it in cartoons.

(Thanks for putting this bug in my ear... Powerhouse is one of my favourite pieces of Looney Tunes music, and I didn't even know it had a name.)

[Muser]

The scary thing is just be reading your post describing it, I knew exactly what your were talking about and actually had the mental image of a Looney Toons cartoon where they were manufacturing chickens or eggs or something. With conveyor beats everywhere.