Harry-Go-Round » Hanna-Barbera http://harrymccracken.com/blog Harry McCracken's blog Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:31:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bacharach, Hanna, David, and Barbera http://harrymccracken.com/blog/2009/10/10/bacharach-hanna-david-and-barbera/ http://harrymccracken.com/blog/2009/10/10/bacharach-hanna-david-and-barbera/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:27:42 +0000 Harry http://harrymccracken.com/blog/?p=462 Mark Evanier has blogged about a mysterious unsold 1967 pilot from Hanna-Barbera with, among other things, a theme song by my favorite songwriters, Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It’s nowhere near as transcendently weird and wonderful as the footage from a Vic Damone special showing Bullwinkle, animated by Benny Washam, dancing to Antonio Carlos Jobim [...]]]> Mark Evanier has blogged about a mysterious unsold 1967 pilot from Hanna-Barbera with, among other things, a theme song by my favorite songwriters, Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It’s nowhere near as transcendently weird and wonderful as the footage from a Vic Damone special showing Bullwinkle, animated by Benny Washam, dancing to Antonio Carlos Jobim music (I don’t think that’s online anywhere). But it still makes me feel good to know that there are odd intersections of my pop-culture interests left to learn about, and it’s neat to hear a “new” Bacharach and David song. (Even though it sounds like something from the Lost Horizon discard pile.)

]]> http://harrymccracken.com/blog/2009/10/10/bacharach-hanna-david-and-barbera/feed/ 3 Great Artifacts of Hanna-Barbera Merchandising http://harrymccracken.com/blog/2008/08/05/great-artifacts-of-hanna-barbera-merchandising/ http://harrymccracken.com/blog/2008/08/05/great-artifacts-of-hanna-barbera-merchandising/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:32:02 +0000 Harry http://www.harrymccracken.com/blog/2008/08/05/great-artifacts-of-hanna-barbera-merchandising/ While strolling through an antique collective in Sebastopol, California this weekend, I came across an unopened vintage package of Huckleberry Hound birthday party plates (pardon the fuzzy iPhone photo):

The characters represented include a poor tracing of a stock post of Huck, even worse renditions of Yogi, Boo Boo, Yakky Doodle, Snuffes, and Mr. Jinks, a [...]]]> While strolling through an antique collective in Sebastopol, California this weekend, I came across an unopened vintage package of Huckleberry Hound birthday party plates (pardon the fuzzy iPhone photo):

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The characters represented include a poor tracing of a stock post of Huck, even worse renditions of Yogi, Boo Boo, Yakky Doodle, Snuffes, and Mr. Jinks, a barely recognizable Pixie and Dixie, a couple of crows, a wasp…and a giant cowboy mouse wearing a hat identifying himself as “Tex.”

I don’t remember a Tex Rodent in early Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Am I forgetting him?

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