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Ellemeno:
"Never Can Say Goodbye"

Version 1: Dionne Warwick?
Version 2: Smokey Robinson?
Version 3: Jackson 5 (hunnerd per cent)
Version 4: Isaac Hayes?
Version 5: Gladys Knight?
Version 6: ?
Version 7: Gloria Gaynor?

I love this, Phillip.

MaineWriter:
Never Can Say Goodbye...my guesses

1. Gloria Gaynor
2. Jimmy Sommerville and the Communards
3. Jackson 5
4. Isaac Hayes
5. Vanessa Willliams
6. ?
7. Disco Dance Mix with Gloria Gaynor

Phillip Dampier:

--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 05, 2007, 06:52:42 am ---Never Can Say Goodbye...my guesses

1. Gloria Gaynor
2. Jimmy Sommerville and the Communards
3. Jackson 5
4. Isaac Hayes
5. Vanessa Willliams
6. ?
7. Disco Dance Mix with Gloria Gaynor

--- End quote ---

You got all but six and seven.  Six is going to be really hard, but it was commercially released.  Seven is going to be tricky too because it's a clever knockoff.  It's wide open to everyone to try and fill in the correct answers for six and seven.

Phillip Dampier:

--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 04, 2007, 07:39:12 pm ---Raymond Scott's 1936 classic, "Powerhouse."

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Yep. Probably around the time Jack was just hitting his teens, the brilliance of Warner Brothers team of cartoonists were turning out the classic cartoons which stand the test of time perhaps better than any other.

Around the time Powerhouse was getting a real workout, Carl Stalling was doing a lot of musical direction and arrangements for the cartoons.  He especially loved to blend then-popular tunes with classical pieces into the soundtrack of the shorts.  Here is one good example.  In some six minutes, you'll hear at least one piece every minute mixed in, including Powerhouse.  This is the original soundtrack score.  Only some sound effects were inserted into this music bed.

MaineWriter:
Now that I have become a Powerhouse fanatic...
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