Artist	Song
Raymond Scott Quintet	The Penguin
Beau Hunks Sextette	The Toy Trumpet
Raymond Scott Quintet	Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals
Beau Hunks Sextette	The Happy Farmer
Raymond Scott Quintet	Powerhouse
Beau Hunks Sextette	A Boy Scout in Switzerland
Raymond Scott Quintet	In an 18th-Century Drawing Room
Beau Hunks Sextette	New Year's Eve in a Haunted House
Don Byron	Siberian Sleigh Ride
Raymond Scott Quintet	Girl at the Typewriter
Don Byron	Tobacco Auctioneer
Beau Hunks Sextette	Twilight in Turkey
Raymond Scott Quintet	Devil Drums
Raymond Scott Quintet	Oil Gusher
Don Byron	The Quintet Plays Carmen
Beau Hunks Sextette	War Dance for Wooden Indians
Raymond Scott Quintet	Bumpy Weather Over Newark
Beau Hunks Sextette	A Little Bit of Rigoletto
Beau Hunks Sextette	Sleepwalker
Raymond Scott Quintet	Steeplechase
Beau Hunks Sextette	Reckless Night on Board an Ocean Liner
Beau Hunks Sextette	Egyptian Barn Dance
Raymond Scott Quintet	Celebration on the Planet Mars
Don Byron	The Penguin

Comment:

'Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely THINK his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of the listener.'
-Raymond Scott, 1949
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Most everyone has heard Raymond Scott's music, but usually only as cartoon soundtrack, because his pieces were incessantly sampled by Carl Stalling for Looney Tunes, & then, later, more self-consciously by Ren & Stimpy, the Simpsons, etc. -- & at this point I'm not sure it's possible to listen to his music without triggering a cartoon sequence in your mind's eye.
Scott's music is animated, all right, but he never had cartoons in mind - he invented his own eccentric style as a jazzed-up alternative to swing music. Contemporaries called the music 'silly,' 'screwy,' and 'smart-alec' 'kittenish, pseudo-jazz' -- but Igor Stravinsky and Jascha Heifetz were big fans. In a later phase of his career, Scott pioneered electronica, but this sampler is devoted to his earlier stuff using human performers.
(By the way, 'zzymzzy' is how a columnist described Scott's stuff -- because 'zzymzzy' is 'the last word'.)

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