Saturday, July 27, 2024

Hoyt Curtin and his Cartoon Songbook

There’s every chance that if you’re of a certain age, you spent as much time listening to Hoyt Curtin songs as you did by The Beatles. Such were the memorable qualities of Curtin’s works that in any other field he’d doubtless be crushed under a pile of Grammys and hailed as a rival to Lennon, […]

The Unexplored Universe of Scooby Doo

“Scooby Doo, Where Are You!” was the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series, “Scooby-Doo”. Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, the cartoon premiered on CBS on September 13, 1969, and ran for two seasons for a total of twenty-five episodes. The punctuation-sensitive will note the early episodes utilise neither a […]