I wrote my Bachelor's thesis about Scott Bradley. Spent an entire year studying and analyzing every episode of Tom & Jerry to prove that he created an entire language with his compositions. The animation and the soundtrack are completely symbiotic as a result and even if you play the music on its own, you will still see and understand what's happening. Bradley was a musical genius in every sense of the word.
I had a videotape with the cartoon and watched it a thousand times when I was a child. I like it because it was fun. But when I watch it now with some musical education and taste, I'm amazed, because his work is perfect! I don't really like modern cartoons and don't watch it, but I think composers don't do such amazing work. Fantastic composer!
0:31 - 1:08 - From "Smitten Kitten", First 40 seconds of the short (including the intro). 1:09 - 1:55 - From "The Mouse comes to Dinner". From where Toodles picks up the phone to when Jerry spits the soup on Tom's face. 1:56 - 2:25 - From "Sufferin' Cats". From the beginning to where Tom scares Jerry. 2:26 - 3:34 - From "Sufferin' Cats". Starts from the scenario where Tom hits the other cat with the pie and continues on till Jerry ties both Cats' tail. 3:58 - 4:08 - From "The Framed Cat". The whole sequence of Tom starting to run after Jerry until he hides behind a wall outside the house. 4:09 - 4:18 - From "The Framed Cat". When Spyke gets knocked into his house, then he hides the bone inside his house and falls asleep. 4:18 - 4:30 - From "Cat Fishin' ". When Spyke bites Tom's leg so he hides behind him (to the point where Spyke falls asleep again) 4:30 - 4:46 - From "The Framed Cat". Continuation of the scene where Spyke falls asleep (including his snoaring) 4:46 - 5:07 - From "Cat Fishin' ". The famous scene where Jerry ties Spyke's leg with Tom's fishing rod. 5:07 - 5:17 - From "Cat Fishin' ". When the fish is chasing after Jerry until Tom hits Jerry in the head with the pedal.
AliK19 lol Jerry’s head with the big ol’ lump with Radio Transmission Sounds. “YOU BITCH!!! HOW COULD YOU MISS A TARGET *THAT* FUCKING BIG AND ONLY HIT MEEEE?!?!?!” 😆
I think that's not an orchestra. Is a sort of almost-digital band. And no one of the musicians except maybe Mark Watters in "Shiver me Whiskers" could capture the original cartoon feeling. Scott may be hard to play but various musicians seems to have not an idea
I'd love to see this orchestra try to replicate the brassy roar of the Warner Bros. Orchestra in the Carl Stalling years! That roar can also be heard in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." That would be a treat as well.
I was smiling throughout the whole performance. I remember coming home from school, switch on the tele and watch Tom and Jerry religiously. No dialogue, just sound fx and music narrating throughout the whole cartoon. So powerful. I loved it.
Classic Tom and Jerry cartoons were simply the best pieces of motion picture of any kind ever produced. I still love jazz and swing music because of them. I wish this piece also included the Manhattan Serenade from when Jerry goes to New York as well. Otherwise absolutely fantastic. I had a smile on my face the whole time.
I agree with you on the Manhattan Serenade from Mouse in Manhattan. My favorite piece of cartoon music anywhere. It evokes the spirit of the City, if that doesn't sound too corny. What gets me about that cartoon is that 73 years later, all of the sights/places Jerry visits in 1945 are not only STILL THERE, but easily recognizable.
Sor Alb i like jazz and swing music because they’re good in general, modern music with mostly computer generated instruments sounds like ass, classical music just sounds too perfect and boring, the 40’s+ are just the golden age of jazz
This is GLORIOUS.....so many wonderful memories of watching Tom & Jerry.....Scott Bradley and his music finally get the recognition they so richly deserve! This English orchestra is absolutely incredible...they played it EXACTLY in Scott Bradleys style. He would be so proud:)
+Naso Oliveira there is one available for free online called "Tom & Jerry and Tex Avery Too!" released by Scott Bradley. You can download some of the tracks for free on the Frederator website.
Used to watch Tom and Jerry for fun when i was young. Looking back now, I realized that Tom and Jerry is one of the most beautiful masterpieces of all time. The messages, plots, illustration, effects, soundtracks, voice cast could not be better. Not to mention these brilliant people who try to revive the songs for children of 2010s
This music makes me feel so happy and I love it soooooo much. Amazingly clever and technically brilliant musically. Tom and Jerry would never have worked so well without this style of musical sounds.
The word "genius" is bandied about fairly liberally these days, often undeservedly so. Scott Bradley was, IS a g. Let us also praise Mr Hanna for bringing us the greatest recorded scream in history.
The majority of the score is from "Cat Fishin'" (1947). This is a great rendition of the music -- you can "see" some of the parts played out in your head while listening!
+vinylrecord68 it comes from eight different cartoons: Smitten Kitten, Sufferin' Cats, The Framed Cat, Cat Fishin' Just Ducky, Jerry and Jumbo, The Cat Comes to Dinner and Mouse for Sale".
This make you appreciate how much work went on a cartoon that lasts around 10 minutes! Such a beautiful master piece composition for each episode, that’s why T&J have 7 Oscars. Wow!!
Fun fact regarding those Oscars: the Tom & Jerry cartoons won for the topical category of Best Short Subject: Live Action/Animated. The TV era would change the nature of film categories when theatrical shorts were being phased out by the end of the 1960's. Yet, thanks to that category, Joseph Hannah and William Barbera are officially the most awarded directors in film history! 7 competitive Oscars is more than Hitchcock, Ford, and DeMille COMBINED! 🇵🇷🇺🇸😊
what a music! This is Tom and Jerry. I had no idea when I was child, just watched over and over again... but now, I realize the power of the instruments... :D
this is absolutely incredible!!!!!!! I've always loved the music in tom and jerry and I knew it was difficult but this orchestra just shows how complicated it actually was. skill required is just phenomenal!!! Scott Bradley is indeed a genius of the highest order!!!!
I've watched this maybe a dozen times in the years since it went up, and my reaction is always the same: Hot sobs of of joy and disbelief! Not tears of nostalgia, but tears for the sheer thrilling exuberance of the music itself. That the band was having a rollicking great time while they played is part of it. I love the string section sawing madly! The sound effects guys breaking crockery and chasing each other! And everybody else throwing their whole selves into it! I love the manic, eager, erotic delight on the face of this one girl violinist! There's NOTHING I don't like about this. The ultimate amazement is that Scott Bradley, in the '40s, turned out scores on this Genius level like CLOCKWORK, to MGM's hectic animation schedule. Only one fly in the ointment: I WISH IT WAS LOUDER!!! GOD DAMN! PLEASE MAKE IT AS LOUD AS FEASIBLY POSSIBLE!!! (short of distortion, of course.)
Lou Raderman, concertmaster of the MGM concert orchestra, used to complain (partly tongue in cheek) that Bradley was trying to break his fingers as he wrote "...some of the most f***ing difficult fiddle music in Hollywood!" Since the original orchestral parts no longer exist, Wilson had to painstakingly reconstruct them by ear. What a fantastic job.
Hoooray, indeed, hoooray !!!! Who amongst the contemporary classical composers would dare to have such fun today without fear of being ridiculed and thought of as frivolous ? I see that several viewers/listeners write of their emotional response, which I think no only comes from nostalgia, but also a very real and deep joy over hearing such a unbridled,exuberant and effervescent performance. The musicians were clearly having a great time. There is no question in my mind that it is so much more difficult to elicit a genuinely happy reaction in an audience, than it is to make them somber. No question at all. And is the reason that joy is harder to achieve than despair, because it sits deeper ... ?
This music absolutely belongs in the concert hall. Always thought so. So did the great composer Gyorgy Ligeti who cited Tom and Jerry scores as an influence on his later music. Bravo John Wilson et al.
Thanks to tom & jerry i started to love and enjoy in jazz early on and that love to jazz remain todat and i m thankful... Absolutely way of life is actual jazz genre
Actually amazing performances. Even more amazing, these folks had to have gotten all their laughs out during rehearsals to keep from breaking out in laughter during this concert. Nonetheless, despite the nature or source of these particular compositions, an outstanding (and hilarious!) overall performance. Gave me a new perspective on those Tom 'n Jerry tracks we used to take for granted as kids.
It is so amazing all the accents, all the people the entire performance sounding perfect all the different instruments and everyone being perfectly in time and no one messing up. An amazing orchestra
Im so happy to see this live performance... it reminded me sweet childhood memories. Amazing performance... hats off to all these musicians... after watching this i have that same big silly smile on my face i use to have in my childhood😁
Tell me you can't picture what is happening with each of these pieces , the music from Tom and Jerry is so iconic and brilliant, this gives so many goosebumps. Good times.
My favourite cartoon. My father told me how excellent Tom and jerry was, and that he grew up watching it. I was very sad that nowadays this cartoon is no longer broadcasted, so I downloaded almost all the episodes from my laptop, and watched it on TV. It was just a matter of a few days and now, I watch nothing except Tom and Jerry. They are extremely funny, but also has deep senses, moral values and meanings. I don't know any cartoon who had topped Tom and Jerry. PS: They will be 81 years old in 2021.
That smile on our faces while we see this video and remember all the episodes of tom and Jerry .... This has got a lot of emotions that can't be explained
