Music of Our Gang

[mikefright]

Being a musician/composer myself, I've always been into the music of the Our Gang shorts. Leroy Shield left such a legacy with his compositions.
He's also known as Dr. Roy Shield depending on how he's credited. When the Beau Hunks came out with that collection of themes, I was thrilled. They did a fantastic job with that, I hope to catch them next time they're on tour.

Few interesting things, if you go to Leroy Shield's website, they have a few clips of music of his that was featured when he used to conduct an orchestra at Radio City Music Hall in NYC as music director of a popular radio program in the 40s.  And sure enough, many of them are larger orchestral versions of some of the Our Gang themes.

Check this page out:

leroyshield.com/audio.html

The rendition of bells is great!  

What are some of your favorite themes?

[mikefright]

The original appearance of Little Dancing Girl sounds like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrCRgTXZ9sw

But it eventually matured into this theme that we hear in later episodes (like Mike Fright)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRVs-FopMu4

The latter is one of my fav Our Gang themes.

[sandro]

The video is no longer available. I do not know why.

[mikefright]

That's strange both links work for me.

[rascalstooge]

Works well for me too.

[sandro]

Maybe the uploader has not made it available to certain countries.