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I want music from the 1930's POPEYE cartoons on CD!

post #1 of 4
6/13/07 at 8:54am
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It would make a perfect "companion piece" to the POPEYE DVD coming out in July, but I haven't heard anything about a CD. I also heard that Michael Jackson has obtained the rights to all that is Popeye - from the cartoons themselves to the music.

Well, any insight or head's-up about a possible upcoming CD would be most welcome. The music from the 1930's Popeye is wonderful.
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post #2 of 4
6/13/07 at 12:08pm

Re: I want music from the 1930's POPEYE cartoons on CD!

I'd love to have it myself.

I haven't heard about MJ buying the Popeyes. I thought he was about out of money. If the Popeye rights were that reasonable, I'm surprised WB or somebody else didn't pick them up.
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post #3 of 4
6/13/07 at 1:53pm
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Re: I want music from the 1930's POPEYE cartoons on CD!

Here is the article from Jerry Beck on Cartoon Brew:

Viacom sells Famous Music

"Well, there goes Popeye the Sailor Man, It’s A Hap-Hap Happy Day and Casper The Friendly Ghost. Not the characters (they were sold off years ago), but the theme songs and music from 80 years of Paramount Pictures. Viacom announced today the sale of Famous Music to Sony/ATV.

“This is a milestone event for Sony/ATV Music Publishing,” said Michael Jackson (yes, that Michael Jackson. He co owns Sony/ATV). In addition to all the Fleischer and Famous Studios cartoon themes (which include Superman, Little Audrey and Herman and Katnip’s Skiddle Diddle Dee) the Famous Music catalogue includes 125,000 songs, including themes from The Brady Bunch and Star Trek, songs from Broadway shows such as A Chorus Line and The Producers, and hundreds of pop tunes and Academy Award winning soundtracks.

The Famous brand name dates back 1912 when Paramount Pictures founder Adolf Zukor created Famous Players. In 1942 when the studio removed the Fleischer brothers and established their own animation studio, they named it Famous Studios, a sister company to Famous Music. All that tradition comes to an end today."

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/...ls-famous-music
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post #4 of 4
6/14/07 at 6:50am

Re: I want music from the 1930's POPEYE cartoons on CD!

I guess that I take that as Good News.

Paramount has had ZERO interest in exploring their back catalog of films & animation, and to an even lower extent, their music catalog.

I would assume that Sony did not buy these rights with the intention of sitting on them, so maybe CD releases aren't too far off!
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