Check out Carl Stalling's performance of Raymond Scott's 'Powerhouse'. Do you remember where you have heard this? There are at least couple of times it's been used in popular culture. I'll post the answers later. No cheating!
But meanwhile, the menacing energy of Edgar Ordonez's version of the Beatles tune "A Hard Day's Night" kind of reminds me of 'Powerhouse'. (Sorry, there is no visual component. The melody from the Beatles starts around t=24, so patience!) He concludes his arrangement with a boogie-woogie feel take, t=2:20. It's a bit much, but it is fun and different.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. -Terry Pratchett
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C'mon, people. No guesses?
The theme to "Get Smart?" I confess popular culture is a mystery to me.
Geebee tells me it's not Get Smart, but I am so enchanted with the 60's animation, that the video itself is its own reward.
It was used in some of the old martian Looney Tunes episodes ("You are making me very angry, very angry indeed"), and a few other episodes where characters were narrowly missing being smashed or chopped in gigantic machinery as they moved along on conveyor belts.
They also used it in the movie 'Honey, I blew up the kids." (Or was it in 'Honey, I shrunk the Kids', or both?)
It sounded vaguely familiar.
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