Raymond Scott

[Teasing the Korean]

I don't think we have a catch-all Raymond Scott thread.

Just picked up a collection of his big band recordings reissued by Real Gone Music.  Kind of a continuation of the Quintette.  

[Ken Dryden]

Didn’t his big band also play standards, in addition to his originals?

[Teasing the Korean]

18 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

Didn’t his big band also play standards, in addition to his originals?

This compilation included 26 tracks, mostly originals, but a few things such as "Limehouse Blues," "Get Happy," and "The Peanut Vendor." 

[T.D.]

What little I know about Raymond Scott pertains to electronic music.

One of his pieces was included in the OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music compilation.

 

Edited December 11, 2023 by T.D.

[Ken Dryden]

This is the LP I was thinking about, which my father bought and later gave to me.

 

This CD is long out of print but shouldn't be too hard to find. It has a lot of his important small group recordings.

Also check out The Carl Stalling Project CDs, which have Stallings arrangements of Scott's music for Looney Tunes cartoon soundtracks.

 

Too bad Stash never got around to issuing a Volume Two, whether it was due to licensing or founder Bernie Brightman's death and the liquidation of the Stash Records label that followed.

I am unsure how much of Scott's music is on the two Stalling CDs, but "Powerhouse" was used in many Looney Tunes. I always remember the one with the fast moving assembly line using a snippet from it.

Edited December 11, 2023 by Ken Dryden

[sidewinder]

This BBC radio documentary on Scott is an interesting listen:

Rewiring Raymond Scott

 

I was thinking - surely he must have influenced Sun Ra? Some of that Electronium music could have fitted in on 'Disco 3000'.

Edited December 11, 2023 by sidewinder

[Teasing the Korean]

4 hours ago, T.D. said:

What little I know about Raymond Scott pertains to electronic music.

One of his pieces was included in the OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music compilation.

 

A fantastic collection that my parents appear on!  (They were part of the vocal group on Your Hit Parade, of which Scott was the musical director.)

4 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

This is the LP I was thinking about, which my father bought and later gave to me.

 

This CD is long out of print but shouldn't be too hard to find. It has a lot of his important small group recordings.

Also check out The Carl Stalling Project CDs, which have Stallings arrangements of Scott's music for Looney Tunes cartoon soundtracks.

 

Too bad Stash never got around to issuing a Volume Two, whether it was due to licensing or founder Bernie Brightman's death and the liquidation of the Stash Records label that followed.

I am unsure how much of Scott's music is on the two Stalling CDs, but "Powerhouse" was used in many Looney Tunes. I always remember the one with the fast moving assembly line using a snippet from it.

I have most of these, except for the Big Band LP.  I also have the Columbia/Sony collection of the Quintette's 78s; two CDs by the Beau Hunks, who recreate the Quintette arrangements; The Unexpected; two collections of his electronic stuff; all three volumes of Soothing Sounds for Baby; and the Metropole Orchestra's album of orchestral arrangements of the Quintette stuff, originally arranged for Paul Whiteman.