Jonny Quest(Cartoon Jazz Suite)
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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For 60s and 70s cartoon fans, please note that I have also pulled together a Jazz suite from the Original Spiderman Cartoons-- music that, sadly enough, where teh masters have not been preserved. Due to the content owner's wishes- my video for that is not as enjoyable, but the music is great! • Spiderman Suite (1967-...
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Jonny Quest (1964-5) was the ultimate Saturday morning cartoon for me. It had everything an 8 year old boy would want: jet packs, hovercrafts, evil spies, monsters, deadly robots, dinosaurs, death rays, cannibal tribes, mummies, deranged, homicidal Nazi war criminals, mad scientists, deadly crocodiles, curses and all sorts of gunfire and explosions. It was Nirvana after a few bowls of Captain Crunch. What made this cartoon unique is that people actually got killed in it. (Offscreen). Although the series only lasted on year in prime time (It was cancelled for being too expensive to make, and parental complaints about the violence), it ruled Saturday morning cartoons in reruns, and ended up being shown by all three major networks.
Not to mention, "Race" Bannon was the ultimate cartoon badass of all time-- even though he looks eerily like Mike Pence.
Not only did the show have much better art than the typical cartoons of the time, the music was INCREDIBLE, and what I remembered most about the show. Hoyt Curtin (the man who wrote "Meet the Flintstones") had a great taste for Jazz and a flair for arranging.
I was so happy when the music for Jonny Quest was released from the master tracks, but I didn't find listening the same as watching the show. About 110 minutes of music was released, but beyond the title tracks,, they were short cues and snippets, anywhere from 5 seconds to 2 minutes long, with long pauses, and I just didn't get the momentum I wanted listening to the music, even though the sound was excellent. There are also some great time signatures- there is a part in 5/4 and several jazz waltzes. Curtin was a trombonist, and the parts he wrote for trombone are legendary.
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Please Note: In the original posting (and the Video) I did not give Ted Nichols credit for his contributions to this music. (Thanks to Martin Proctor for pointing that out.) I can't change the video, but wanted to make Nichol''s contribution clear.
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I decided to edit a long Jazz suite taking highlights of the music, shifting the order, grouping different themes and using overlaps, cross-fades, and a bit of convolution reverb to make it sound like a long manic jazz composition-- an audio cartoon. To be honest, I had low hopes and didn't plan on posting it, but I really like the way it came together, and it's Hoyt Curtain's music that made this possible.
For the video, I've pulled clips from more than half of the episodes, trying to keep reflecting the moods of the music, and capturing the unhinged sense of adventure (and gratuitous violence) that the 8 year old me me still appreciates. For the reasons of Copyright claims, I was not able to duplicate the video of amazing intro to the show- which is well worth checking out.
As a note- some aspects of the cartoon are dated- there are a lot of "ignorant savage" tropes, and a lot of the "yellow peril" paranoia, and despite the presence of the lovely mercenary Jade, who is Race Bannon's equal, this show was targeted for boys who haven't yet discovered girls. So I've seen some articles about how the show show's male chauvinism and White Exceptionalism. It's a reflection of a different era-- I'd just laugh at the dated parts and soak up the action. And there is no shortage of action.
I'm submitting this under the Fair Use provision of the copyright act, for educational purposes, so that people may discover both this great cartoon and the music underneath it.
I was born in '54. This was every boy's dream show. Lots of shooting, explosions, aircraft, fast boats, mummies, monsters, laser beams and really bad guys that always got theirs.
And sometimes the kids got guns too! 😀
Easily one of MY favorite cartoons too when I was a child! I’m 61 now. The artwork was sophisticated, unlike the “cookie cutter” style prevalent in most Hanna-Barbera creations, and the cartoon itself was way ahead of its time. The music was jazzy, exciting, and memorable! One of my favorite episodes was when the evil doctor got eaten by the dragons he kept as pets! That’s another glaring difference between “Jonny Quest” and other cartoons-instead of silly, non-sensical endings, people actually died! A Hanna-Barbera masterpiece!
FWIW- I've found a web page where an author, guessing conservatively, estimated that 146 (characters) people were killed in the 26 episodes of the one and only season. Now we need someone to count all of the gunshots and explosions. I think what made the show so intense is that is was a lot more like the more violent movies our parents would watch. I'm glad to here from others who feel the way about it that I do.
@@GrantFredereckZenyep (September 3rd 2023 and September 22nd,2023/🙂).
Remember, Dr. No was released the year before Johnny Quest came out. It was one of the first Spy Fi shows.
It's too bad ABC and Hanna Barbera just couldn't afford the shows high production costs.
James Bond for kids, with all sorts of cool Sci-Fi gadgets. Also the Friendship between Jonny and Haiji was great, a real first for American TV in 1964.
Ok so at 70 years young I still watch Johnny Quest so what about it Huh....!
I feel very grateful for be a part of the generation that enjoy this beautiful cartoon, Thank you!
Yep
Beautiful? Clutch Cargo was really crappy cartoon. Never really moving. Frozen and just sliding around. Their mouths moved. Like a close up of a human mouth. Back woods cartoons.
@@ericpowers6509
Do you remember the 1962 cartoon “Space Angel?” It was similar to Clutch Cargo with only mouth and lip movements.
I watched the premiere of Jonny quest when it first came on in 64 I knew it was going to be a classic because of the theme song I am 66 now Jonny quest for ever
Johnny Quest was the cutting edge of action packed animation so far ahead if its time from Hanna Barbera its going on 60 years since its inception!
Hoyt Curtain and.his orchestra..WOW
Battle of the planets was more of his awesome work
HB certtainly knew how to make Cartoon action adventures. I grew up on this sort of stuff - When kids were free to be kids, and no perverts around.
Absolutely best cartoon ever.
The best cartoon ever!
Coolest show ever, coolest tools ever, and coolest jazz music ever!
Always enjoyed watching JQ, the music was spot on and a bonus
Todays cartoons not even close.
Hoyt Curtin was a stone cold musical genius!
That unplayable trombone line in the intro kicks. I played the t bone and you can only move that slide so fast.
37 minutes of awesomeness
The Greatest cartoon ever Made Bar -None
Jonny Quest (TOS) was the sh*it in the 1960's! It came on like about 7-8Pm on a Friday in my area.. It was not a typical goofy/kiddie style Saturday cartoon show. It was serious & futuristic.
Glad I've Got Two Sets of 1964 on DVD. One as a Back Up. I Love 1964 J.Q. Great Soundtracks, I Want the Soundtracks of 1967 Spideman Too. i Love Jazz / Rock.
You are right- the 1967 Spiderman music was one of the most innovative fusions of Big band and rock I've ever heard. However, the masters may never be found. I've done some research among sites for soundtrack collectors, and the 1967 Spiderman is really high on everyone's wish list, but nobody seems to think that they bothered to save the master tapes.. The best source out there is 11db11's collection of original music for the show, which was taken directly from the episodes, when means there is dialog and sound effects
. .ruclips.net/video/yCF8JU30gXI/видео.html
(Foturnately, the 1967 music was reused in later seasons with a longer episode format, and they padded them a lot with lots sequences of spidey swinging with long use of the musical cues.)
I have done my best to assemble a similar jazz suite for 1967 Spiderman based on 11db11's work. I also had a great video (on the level of the Jonny Q video), but the content owners were very stingy on what they would share on RUclips, and I spend a week making cuts an alterations and still couldn't get it approved . So I finally had to apply a kaleidoscope filter for the video. That said,, although there were more technical challenges, the music is GREAT, and I think it also made a good suite.
ruclips.net/video/OLK3b24a9NA/видео.html
It sounds great. I don't know the original parts so I cannot compare but it sounds coherent. Well done
I could binge watch this
Dr Zens robot spider was my favorite
many thanks John ... i was about your age as well in "64 ... JQ was the highlight of our week.
Great music that you missed watching the action!
I didn't see the cartoon during it's original run in prime time in 1964-65 as we were living in England at that time and I would have been just shy of three when the show first hit the airwaves, but I did see the original Saturday morning broadcasts during its original syndicated run back in September 1967, just shy of my sixth birthday. I think the show became part of my DNA from the moment I first saw it. By the way, the musical credit should be shared with Ted Nichols who worked on Jonny Quest under the radar, and who continued his terrific work on such cartoons as Space Ghost, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio (sounds like a great name for a band), the Fantastic Four, The Herculoids, Mightor and of course his memorable underscore for the first two seasons of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! amongst other things.
Martin- thanks for your comments. I've added a note about Ted Nichols in the commentary- it's a bit late to add to the video. But I welcome your scholarship!
Wow, what a pedigree. I can hear some of his footprints in those other shows. Thanks for the info.
Hoyt Curtin was a genius all this music is his and you can find more videos on here with every single music segment he composed for this amazing fantastic show. Sad we only got 26 episodes it should have stayed on the air until they had 100 episodes done.
Thanks for a great compilation of video & music from a show that I greatly loved as a child.
Classics you have too love them
I watched this in re-runs in the 70's. It was a big part of my childhood. I wanted to be as tough as Race and have adventures as a kid, like Jonny and Hadji. I even had a dog similar to Bandit, except he was a black Chihuahua/ Rat terrier mix. He was very smart and loved to be apart of things.
The way the drums sync to animation at 12:15 is perfect.
Oh, gee! I loved this show so much. The characters all clicked. And I never appreciated the music … until now. Thank you!
Loved it, The First Year was the Best ! I loved how some people complained about the Violence ect, Had they Ever Seen Other Cartoons of the Time !
Classic one of the best & my top 3 of all time I’m 57 and I remember getting up super early just to watch it this cartoon was more than a kids cartoon!!! Had Action , Espionage , spy drama , and killing and death as well as that great music 🎶 thxz for the Entertainment great work friend 👍🏼
It was made for adults. In fact it aired originally in Prime Time on ABC. They edited out some of the violence and dark humor when they were run on Saturday mornings.
This is absolutely fantastic.
Carl Stalling has gotten some love and attention for his music for Warner Bros so I'm glad to see Hoyt Curtin getting a bit of spotlight, here!
The best music of all time in cartoons or otherwise, bar none, if you examine it. I grew up watching Johnny Quest and can think of few other influences as great, because of the science, the music and because it is a virtuous story. Thanks for this!!
My favorite episode was "The Invisible Monster."
The first cartoon I remember as a kid outside of anime that showed people getting killed 😮
I'm 47 and this animated serie still gives me goosebumps!
You did an amazing job on this!! Well done and thank you so much! 🤩
I never realized until watching this but this is one of the few things you genuinely couldn't make today. With all the smoking, guns, deaths, and open sexuality (amongst other things) I'm surprised Cartoon Network was okay re-airing it in the 90s and 2000s.
Great compilation. Lots of Jade scenes too...like that.
I hope most of you see how many of these 1964 scenes were later used in Bond films, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and other action movies of the late 60s, 70s, 80s...
This is / was just absolutely the best ...I have enjoyed how you did this thanks to I have finally git to hear all of what I call the Best Music in a cartoon or nearly any show maybe ever....to me JQ was the best cartoon ever put on TV cause it was relatable even though it had it's cartoon moments of course it was the True outstanding show from HB cause it wasn't like anything anything else HB ever did from animation to music....simply put.....Quest was the Best!!... my humble thats to you and your team....you put a always Smile on my and in my Heart for what you all did here!👏👏👏👏👏
@John Page..... EXCELLENT job ! Thanks for putting this together !
A real cartoon with action
packed episodes.
Best Saturday morning cartoon ever made Scooby-Doo a close second
😀👍So Cool to have the visual & sound track together.
It reminds me of the parodies of Johnny test, and the venture brothers
@@davidchynoweth4007 I didn't discover the Venture Brothers until I posted this. What a great show. I love "The Nozzle"
Good cartoon! Though racist at times but also shown mainly to adults after 7pm if I can remember and never with the Saturday lineups, like so many of the other Hanna=Barbera cartoons that proliferated so much in the 1960s-1970s cartoons and shows i used to watch. Great and I hope to see more too!Long live Hoyt Curtin! Peace
i love this music
Tks for posting this - the part that starts at 13:09 is my favorite part, well except for the opening theme
Muy bonita caricatura y la música.
Once again the werewolf of the timberland is the best episode ever and it is
"The Robot Spy" scared the pants off of me when I first saw it. I'm also fond of ":The Sea Haunt" and "The Devil's Tower"-- I love the crazy nazi war criminal with the hand grenades. But yes- I still remember what a "Loup Garou" is from the "Werewolf of the Timberland". So many great episodes. I was surprised to find out there was only one season. BUt it was interesting that all three of the major networks took turns showing it on Saturday Mornings. They stopped after the first season since each episode of JQ was 5 times more expensive to make than the Flintstones- but they never considered how much the show would make in syndication.
It's great to hear from others that loved the show as much as I did.
I haven't started looking for the music from Space Ghost-- yet...
The Sea Haunt was my favorite episode Toru the the terrible was a close 2nd.
Invisible Monster
I remember when they use to advertise Score men's hair dressing on the Johnny Quest cartoon show. Loved that hair dressing and loved that cartoon show to.
Even the cartoon shows had better music than what is being played now! Remember the Fantastic four theme song?
Yes on FF theme song.
Jonny Quest is simply the best cartoon ever made. But just the first "season", I must say, with all the 26 episodes aired initially in 1964. The other two "seasons" - one in the 70's and the other in the 80's or 90's - ... pfff! Bloody ridiculous. I'm quite sure the 1964 "season" was the first cartoon where people really dies - something that no longer exists. I'm from Brazil, and I became a fan since the first time I saw the cartoon. And I saw the 26 original episodes countless times. One of the happiest days of my life was the day when I bought the box containing the discs with all the episodes. I still have them. And the opening theme song... the best of the best of the best.
I agree. I was 4 back in 1964 when this show came on & I watched in glorious black & white on the family Zenith, getting nightmares (thank you, Mummy, Invisible Monster, & Yeti) and falling in love with Hoyt Curtin's music. I taped episodes on reel to reel tape & then cassette because hearing the dialogue, the sound FX & the music, I could see it in my mind play out any time I wanted to. Then came the videocassettes, which I bought, and then at long last, the fabulous DVD of the first & best season. If there's any show that comes close, it's the Batman Animated, for so many reasons. But I'll always hold close to my heart & be that 4 year old wide-eyed kid again, when I hear the opening bars to the theme song.
Same here, but never any nightmares, I bought a copy as soon as RUclips offered it.Still a diehard fan, some things never go out of style.@@drcrumpler
@@greggmarshall80 believe it or not, my son's name is Marshall and his business partner/friend's name is Greg. How's that for a coincidence even Dr. Zin couldn't think up?
Thank you for giving credit to Hoyt Curtain. Hanna & Barbera were both very stingy about who got credit, so they usually took it themselves.
Well damn, I missed out on this when I was young. I love this music all by itself, but the ultraviolence takes it to a higher level!
Great cartoon. Jealous people call Johnny,"Ole helmet head."
divina volverla haber gracias los amo bendiciones
Era wise it would sure be nice to be back in the 1960s again
This is why Johnny quest was ahead of their time with monsters ,planes that lift off like some modern jets today race bannon wad awesome could fight like james bond ,fly and drive anything ,dr quest was a very smart scientist ,and protected by the government owns his own island ,
13:10 still the baddest danger theme
Great stuff John! I hope you don't mind, but since you shared it with me on my Jonny Quest double-CD article, I also posted it there as an update and gave you full credit in short write up. I hope it helps you get some well-deserved hits!
Many thanks. I can't really claim any ownership of this-- anyone is free to it. I will confess that the video took a lot longer to pull together than the audio.
Great attention to detail. I'd hate to compete against you in a JQ trivia contest! You may not own the copyright brother, buy you definitely OWN this, at least in the metaphorical sense.
Why was Dr. Zin's head shaped like a light bulb.😮
Because he was a “Bright” Mad Scientist that wanted to rule the world.
Bandit, the bulldog.
My favorite episodes were the uivisible energy monster. And the 2 scientists who could grow small animals to Giant Monsters that could take over the earth.
7:38 Mummy walks!
18:46 Just gives me goosebumps because I grew up with all these shows and music. Did you put these together yourself? It’s most magical and most impressive.👍🤩🙏 love it🥰
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, I put this together myself. It took MUCH longer to do the video than the audio. There are a few glitches I'd like to correct, but I had to let it go at some point.
I would love to just be able to play that music off that video you made, is there someway of putting it on Spotify ?
do you have your music on Spotify because I would just play this music all day long as it is I’m playing this video all day long🤩
@@roymassey1364 I don't put anything on spotify. I have both MP3s for both Jonny Quest and Spiderman suites. here if you wish to download. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bvjn3a3i2s6h2792ex0hd/JonnyQuest-Spiderman.zip?rlkey=tymf59sgz1cv8bczcklpuiewl&st=4xuzqx1h&dl=0 I''ll try to keep this up for a while. I'm providing these for educational value, and make no claims of ownership/Intellectual property for them.
Mitten , with a Dah Savot tossed in for a good measure .
NOT just "Jonny Quest", and "Meet the Flintstones". "The Jetsons" (listen to the jazz bit in the show's outro), "Josie and the Pussycats", and everything else that Hanna-Barbera produced until the late 1980s. In a 1999 interview Curtin said, "My pianist, Jack Cookerly, invented the synthesizer as we know it for Jonny Quest. It was made of orange crates with a keyboard and thousands of vacuum tubes! A regular jazz band, (of) 4 trumpets, 6 [trom]bones, 5 woodwind doublers, 5-man rhythm section including percussion"; was used to record the music for the Jonny Quest cartoon. (ref. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt_Curtin)
Thanks for the additional scholarship!
Every time I see Lear jet fly over think Race Doc Quest Johnny Haji Bandit
Johnny Quest didn't "F" around!
Has anybody got an idea whar the JQ Team's two jet aircraft are called?
Dr Quest , his dad.
Dayum they killed a lot of bad guys.
Love this show, am streaming it every day.
I met a beautiful young woman in the 80's in Washington with Emerald eyes and her name was you guessed it Jade!!? I always wondered what happened to her, we got separated are third day down there when assignments were being done, and I never saw her again unfortunately!!! GaryBailey Never
Knew if she got an overseas assignment like me or if she got to stay on in the States like Virginia or Washington D.C. or somewhere else!!!
@25:19 you see fighter jets that look like F-16s TEN YEARS BEFORE THE F-16 FIRST FLEW!!!!!!!!!!!
Ever noticed that Haji's rag top never fell off no matter what he did. Don't think we ever saw his head. And they couldn't give him a last name. Haji Raghead. Scooby Doo is just a Johnny Quest rip off. Oh, are they Hannah Barbara too? Reciclyeling. Yogi Bear taught use it's ok to steal. Hey, picknick baskets at first, but then it leads to Whole RVs or Mini Vans. It gets out of control. Wacky racing and wacky flying cartoons. Always someone back stabbing another in those. That dog is always laughing. Now it's telly tubbies. No violence there
Maybe one or two times he was bare head.
@@tray488 Well if you missed those episodes then you never see it. But, I saw a modern cartoon last night, Holy Crap Bat Man! They are awesome. Better then the real thing. No one gets hurt doing stunts. They have unlimited Poetic Licensing with animation.
I'm waiting for the live action movie of Jonny Quest...it's long overdue. Spend a billion or so, then make billions more.
Is this Desi Arnaz's Group's performance ? (Ricky from I love Lucy)
Jonathan Quest?
Jade has Race's number...
I'm pretty sure Race was gay
Jade exposed Race's double from a nostalgic French kiss, so she had to have tounge time with Race to know. Race is a manly man. The tingle wasn't in the copy.
@@kph6 projecting?
More important, Race has Jade’s number!
And she would have given it to him.
See s like most of the people on here talking about it is in there 50, 60 and 70. I am 66
No cursing.
Haji.
Tubi has episodes
16:38
Bom que meus ídolos não envelhecem.😮
Sim. Muito sábio da sua parte dizer isso.
Haji.