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A 1931 Juilliard graduate, Scott began his professional career as a pianist for the CBS Radio house band. In 1936, while at CBS, he formed his band, the Raymond Scott Quintette. It was a six-piece group, but the puckish Scott thought quintette (his spelling), sounded "crisper" and told a reporter he feared that "calling it a 'sextet' might get your mind off music". The quintette was an attempt to revitalize Swing music through tight, busy arrangements and reduced reliance on improvisation. Scott called his musical style "descriptive jazz," and gave his pieces titles like "New Year's Eve in a Haunted House," "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," and "Reckless Night on Board an Ocean Liner." While popular with the public, jazz audiences disdained it as novelty music.
Scott believed strongly in composing and playing by ear. He composed his pieces by humming phrases to instrumentalists in his ensemble. During the process of putting a composition together, his players might improvise, but, once complete, the piece was fixed and no further alteration was permitted. It was all done in the ear and in the head; his players memorized their parts; and no notes were written down. The quintette performed from 1937 to 1939 and made recordings many of which were hits at the time.
Scott never composed a note that he intended for use in cartoons. According to his wife, he not only did not compose for cartoons, he did not watch them either. But in 1943, the music found a home at Warner Brothers, where music director Carl StallingStalling ( 1888 1974) was the most famous composer and arranger of cartoon music. He composed several of the early cartoon scores for Walt Disney, although not Steamboat Willie despite claims that he did. He is one of three composers credited with having was a Scott fan. Warner Brothers bought the band's catalog and used the music extensively in cartoons. His music has appeared in Looney Tunes and Merrie MelodiesLooney Tunes is a Warner Brothers cartoon series that preceded the Merrie Melodies series, and is both WB's first animated theatrical series and the second longest continuous animated series in any medium. History The two series were given two separate na, The SimpsonsHomer, Marge, Maggie, Santa's Little Helper, Bart, Snowball II, and Lisa. The Simpsons is the longest-running animated television series and sitcom series in U. television history, with 16 seasons and 338 episodes since its debut on December 17, 1989., Ren and StimpyRen and Stimpy are the title characters of two cartoon TV series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi. Ren Hoek a neurotic " asthma-hound" chihuahua, and Stimpson J. Cat a fat simpleton cat wander around in nonsensical adventures reminiscent of th, AnimaniacsSteven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs was a popular animated TV cartoon series from Warner Bros. produced by Steven Spielberg. Animaniacs was the second animated series produced by the collaboration of Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. Animation during the, and DuckmanDuckman was an animated sitcom created by Everett Peck consisting of 70 episodes airing in the mid 1990s on the USA Network. The series was produced by Gabor Csupo and Arlene Klasky. The series followed the home life and adventures of a dim-witted and las cartoons.
One Scott composition, "Powerhouse", appears in more than 35 Warner Brothers cartoons and has also been used as a theme for the Cartoon NetworkThe Cartoon Network is a cable TV channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing cartoons. It premiered on October 1, 1992. History Ted Turner's cable TV conglomerate had acquired the MGM film library (which included the older catalog of as well as being used by the rock band Rush in their 1978 song "La Villa Strangiato" on their Hemispheres album.
Outside of cartoon soundtracks, his best-known compositions are "The Toy Trumpet," a cheerful pop-music confection that is instantly recognizable to many people who cannot name the title or composer, and "In An Eighteenth-Century Drawing Room," an unremarkable but commercially successful pop adaptation of the opening them from Mozart's Piano Sonata in C, K. 545.
Scott was an early electronic music pioneer. As well as designing novel instruments such as the Clavivox and Electronium , he produced records of entirely electronic music, such as the oddly-named but ground-breaking Soothing Sounds for Baby . His electronic music did not find much favor as pure music, but his firm, "Manhattan Research, Inc." had considerable success in providing striking, ear-catching sonic textures for broadcast commercials. He served as director of Motown's electronic music and research department from 1971 to 1977. Robert Moog, developer of the Moog Synthesizer, met Scott in the 1950s, designed circuits for him in the 1960s, and acknowledges him as an influence.
Scott developed the first devices capable of producing a series of electronic tones automatically in a sequence. Scott credits himself as inventor of sequencer (although these electromechanical devices, with motors moving photocells past lights, bore little resemblance to the all-electronic sequencers of the late sixties).
In the mid-1990s, the Beau Hunks (a Dutch ensemble originally formed to perform music created by Leroy Shield for the Laurel and Hardy movies) released two albums of Scott's music. Clarinetist Don Byron has recorded and performed his music, as has the Kronos Quartet. A number of Scott's original recordings have been re-released. As of 2003, a reappreciation and revival appear to be in progress.
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