Merv Griffin - House of Horrors
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It turns out that not folk, but the borrowing, by the way, is Merv Griffin himself, it seems to me that this composition was composed on the principle of the “Hanoi tower”-he strung samples from classic amusements-ultrasounds on rock-roller, uncomplicated base. It seems to me - it was not an independent melody, but a jingle for some show on American TV. There, even the initial performance refers the listener to the classical horror films of the 50s: Hello! My name is is boris ... This is an allusion to Belu Lugoshi and Boris Carloff - the shock performers of the roles of Dracula and Frankenstein, respectively. But in general, the jingle turned out to be so impressive that our sound engineers did not dangle up in a cartoon. And even more than that - after looking at the "Carlson" once again, I came to the conclusion that the animators specifically created the episode of "smoking" of crooks, and not vice versa, specially under this melody. All these phrases are "Calm, now I will overtake you ... then we are laughing!" ... They could not exist until this melody, but appeared only after it (otherwise it was impossible to choose a ready -made melody for such a script). In general, a successful example of borrowing, which did not drop the advantages of the original, and did not spoil the impression of the cartoon itself.
P.S. By the way, Merv Griffin is not only a composer, but also the same person who came up with the original versions of the television vocabulary “Wood Field” and “His Game” - “Weel of Fortune” and “Japardie”.