Here’s an interesting piece on Raymond Scott. If you think you don’t know him, and you’re old enough to remember watching Looney Tunes on television, then you probably actually do, as one of his greatest hits, “Powerhouse,” was frequently appropriated for sequences of inexorable, especially mechanized, cartoon chaos.

I said it before and I’ll say it again: John Williams’ dad, Johnny Williams, was the drummer in the Raymond Scott Quintette – actually a six-piece group, but Scott quipped he thought “calling it a sextet might get your mind off music.”

Apparently, Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh (pictured) is now the proud owner of Scott’s Electronium.

“Powerhouse”

“Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals”