Music at an early age...

When I was growing up, one of the most fun things to do was to get up early on Saturday morning - and watch cartoons. In my less-aged days, most of the cartoons were from Warner Brothers and a host of variants.

If memory serves me correctly, many of the truly early animated cartoons were done as a "new media" experiement, and were largely musical... They were good entertainment, and generally (NOT always) tasteful and fun.

I still hear those early 20th-century tunes in my head sometimes, the ones that were used in cartoons. "I'd tip my hat to you, but I haven't got a hat" and "We're in the money", and stuff like that. I must say, most of the cartoons were genius, and utilized music to get the audiences' feet tapping.

Interestingly enough, those early tunes (and cartoons) are still an influence on my music today...

Here's an interesting one hosted on Google Video, now in the public domain(? more than 75 years old, I guess). A Day at the Zoo.