New
Powerpuff Girls Album; Rhino's Looney Tunes CD Update
Gookie
Fri., June 14, 2001 9:41 PM
Rhino Records has just added anew
title to their list of upcoming releases: The City OfSoundsville:
Themes From The Powerpuff Girls. The album is set tobe released
on September 4, 2001. No other details are given.
Also, Rhino has pushed back the release date for the read-alongcassette
of The Powerpuff
Girls:Mojo Jojo's Rising from June 16th to June 19th.
We now have an update on an earlier report regarding Rhino's 2-CDLooney
Tunes collection, That's All Folks! Cartoon Songs FromMerrie
Melodies & Looney Tunes (scheduled for release 8.21.01),courtesy
of Jon Cooke'sLooney Tunes
and Merry Melodies Page:
The set will feature songs and scores from many classic cartoons,including
the complete soundtracks to six cartoons ("Katnip Kollege","Have
You Got Any Castles?", "Book Review", "What's Opera, Doc?","The
Three Little Bops", and "Back Alley Op-Roar"). The set will alsoinclude
"I Love to Singa", Daffy singing "The Merry-Go-Round BrokeDown",
a montage of Bugs Bunny singing over two dozen of his songs,and
much more. The CD set will be packaged with a 100 page bookcomprised
of historical animation essays and original art from actualimages
of production cels, lobby cards, background art and more.
There is no further update yet for Rhino's upcoming Looney Tunestitle
Crash! Bang! Boom! The Best Of Warner Bros. Sound FX(release
date: 8.28.01) except to clarify that this is not thesame
title Rhino released in August 2000, which bears the same name.[See
the Toon
ZoneStore for the original title.] Furthermore, Rhino is releasingthis
title in a whole new format: DVD AUDIO. According to Rhino, DVDAUDIO
titles include features which are "accessible ONLY with a DVDAudio
player, a recently introduced piece of technology (as opposedto
standard DVD players). FYI, most DVD Audio player [sic] can alsoplay
DVD video as well as standard CDs."
For more information on this new digital technology, visit Rhino's
DVDAudio page. |
