4a) In Appreciation of Raymond Scott

 

4a1) Raymond Scott "Powerhouse" (Various Performers)

One of the more anarchic bits of music accompanying the antics of the Looney Tunes crew.

 

4a2) Raymond Scott Quintette "Powerhouse"

 

4b) Raymond Scott "Naked City" 

"The recording of “Naked City” featured here is a brilliant recreation of the Scott original, in sparkling sound, made by Jan Stulen, conducting the Metropole Orchestra. The Metropole Orchestra is a multiple Grammy winning jazz and pop orchestra based in the Netherlands, and is the largest full-time ensemble of its kind in the world." 

"Naked City” Music of Raymond Scott – Part One – Swing & Beyond 

4c) "Scott called his music “descriptive jazz”—his name for a novel chamber music style that drew on the propulsive drive of swing, with all the riffs and syncopation of that dance style, but with less improvisation and proclaiming a taste for extravagant, quasi-industrial sounds. It was like techno before there was techno, but with a jitterbug sensibility." 

Ted Gioia – The Secret Music Technology of Raymond Scott 

4d) RaymondScott.net

 

4e) Callithumpian Consort "For Your Eyes Only" Composed by John Zorn

4a) Reasons Why the 70's Rocked

4a1) Linda Ronstadt "Tumbling Dice" and "You're No Good," Atlanta 1977

4a2) "There are two kinds of men in this world. Those with a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who never heard of her."

Willie Nelson

3a) Daily Zen

3a) Yoshio Okada Surfer Girl (1974)

5a) Icarus Montgolfier Wright

 

5a1) Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1962) 

5a2) Icarus is based on a story by Ray Bradbury with a script co-written by Bradbury and George Clayton Johnson. Jules Engel produced it at Format Films and actors James Whitmore and Ross Martin provide the voices. 

Cartoon Brew 

5a3) Hat tip to Caleb Mannan.

3a) Daily Zen

3a) Andreas Cellarius – Harmonia Macrocosmica