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Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour (1982-1983): half-hour episodes made up of three seven-minute cartoons


A Story Untold

"A Story Untold" is a song, originally written as a doo-wop song by Leroy Griffin, but adapted to the pop music genre in 1955.

Collected Works 95–96

The collection features covers of "Yoo Doo Right" by Can and the Cream song "World of Pain" (written by Gail Collins And Felix Pappalardi).

Corky the Hornet

There he worked on such Disney films as Johnny Appleseed and Little Toot, as well as creating Mr. Bluebird (on my shoulder) from the “Zippity Doo Dah” portion of Song of the South.

Danny Antonucci

Antonucci dropped out of the Sheridan College of Visual Arts to take a job as an animator at Hanna-Barbera, where he worked on a number of series, including The Flintstones Comedy Hour, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The Smurfs, and Richie Rich.

Demon's Claws

In September 2010 the band offered a track for the compilation album Daddy Rockin Strong: A Tribute to Nolan Strong & The Diablos - they recorded a cover of the '50s Detroit doo-wop "Try Me One More Time."

Dick Gallagher

Whoop-Dee-Doo! (1993), which was nominated for the 1993 Outer Critics Circle Award and won the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue

Doo Dah Parade

In recent years, participants have included groups such as the Fishnet Mafia, the Wilber Hills Country Club, Feature Creatures Haunted Acting Troupe of Central Ohio, Four Men Walking Abreast (four men carrying a pink balloon adorned with a brighter pink spot in the middle), Deri Air, the Ohio Roller Girls, and the Doo Dah Band.

Doo-Ri Chung

At the state's dinner honoring South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his wife, Kim Yoon-ok on October 13, Michelle Obama joined her Korean guests with a beautiful asymmetrical purple dress designed by Doo-Ri Chung.

Fred Silverman

During Silverman's time at ABC, he overhauled the network's Saturday-morning cartoon output, dumping Filmation (which had produced the failed Uncle Croc's Block) and replacing it with content from Hanna-Barbera, including a continuation of Scooby-Doo.

He worked as an executive at the CBS, ABC and NBC networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as the series Scooby-Doo (1969–present), All in the Family (1971–1979), The Waltons (1972–1981), and Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), as well as the miniseries Roots (1977) and Shōgun (1980).

Gambling Man

"Gambling Man" is the first single from five-piece British-Irish doo-wop boy band The Overtones to be released from their debut album, Good Ol' Fashioned Love.

George Motola

Among his compositions is "Shattered Dreams", recorded by the Johnny Burnette Trio, and he co-wrote "Here Comes Henry" for Young Jessie (with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), both sides of the Ernie Fields 1958 single "Annie's Rock"/"Strollin' After School"(Jamie 1102) and "Lou Be Doo" for Sanford Clark.

Hamish Macbeth

He loves the town of Lochdubh (meaning 'black lake' (loch) in Gaelic and pronounced Lokh-DOO) and is content and at peace with his life and lacks ambition.

Heather North

North was the second actress to voice Daphne; Indira Stefanianna Christopherson voiced the character during the first season of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! in 1969.

Henrik Carlsen

As a composer, he has written or co-written pop-songs like "Ring a Ling" (Tiggy), "Diddley-doo" (Cartoons), "Easy Come Easy Go" (Los Umbrellos), and worked as producer or re-mixer with Barcode Brothers, E-Type, Blå Øjne and many more.

How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?

The band is portrayed by cartoon versions of themselves, in a style reminiscent of 1960s-era Hanna-Barbera cartoons, and Scooby-Doo in particular.

I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

David Bowie used to team this song with an updated version of the Flares 1960 doo-wop song "Foot Stompin'" during the (1974) Diamond Dogs tour, as heard on the compliation Rarest One Bowie.

In Mike We Trust

The novel contains a number of references to non-fiction people, things, and places, like the singer Sufjan Stevens, the films Beautiful Thing and Chinatown, the cartoon characters Scooby-Doo and Superman, and to places in and around Richmond, Virginia.

Inka Dinka Doo

"Inka Dinka Doo" is a 1933 popular song whose words were written by Ben Ryan, and whose music was composed by James Francis "Jimmy" Durante.

Iwao Takamoto

He was responsible for the original character design of such characters as Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons dog Astro, and Penelope Pitstop.

James Baskett

James Baskett (February 16, 1904 – July 9, 1948) was an American actor known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, singing the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in the 1946 Disney feature film Song of the South.

Jimmy Coe

Other musicians he worked with included Montgomery, Slide Hampton, David Baker, Freddie Hubbard, pianist Carl Perkins, Larry Ridley, Leroy Vinnegar, and doo-wop sensations The Students.

Kel Carruthers

In 1996, he took a job with the Sea-Doo watercraft factory racing team, helping them win several national and world titles.

La Grange, North Carolina

The Corsairs, Doo-wop quartet consisting of brothers Jay "Bird," James and Moses Uzzell with cousin George Wooten, formed in La Grange.

Les Cooper

He sang in several New York doo wop groups, including The Empires and The Whirlers, and was the manager of the group The Charts.

Lew Leslie

For Blackbirds of 1928 they wrote ‘Baby!’, ‘Dixie’ and ‘Here Comes My Blackbird’, and while these had little life outside the show the same cannot be said for others that became popular: ‘Diga Diga Doo’, ‘Doin’ The New Low-Down’, ‘I Must Have That Man’ and what became a perennial favourite, I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby.

Lore Sjöberg

Lore's largest contribution to Brunching was "Ratings", in which he would give a short commentary and a letter grade to a handful of items in a particular category, such as "breakfast cereals" or "Scooby-Doo characters".

Loving the Sound

"Loving the Sound" is the first single from five-piece British-Irish doo-wop boy band The Overtones to be released from their second studio album, Higher (2012).

Nick Palatas

A newcomer to the Scooby-Doo series, Palatas took over for Matthew Lillard.

Prentiss Barnes

Mentored by Alan Freed, the group’s doo-wop harmony style achieved great success on the national R&B charts and recorded on Chess Records.

Rock-a-Doodle-Doo

Rock-a-Doodle-Doo is a popular song and hit single by British singer Linda Lewis.

Scooby Snacks

In A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, a treat known as Mellow Mutt Munchie was offered as an alternative to the Scooby Snack.

They are used as a form of incentive payment for the cartoon characters Scooby-Doo and Shaggy from the Hanna-Barbera series Scooby-Doo and its various spin-offs.

Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo

Shaggy tries to use the staff against the gryphon by the power of "Houdini, the Wizard of Oz, and the English kid with the glasses", meaning Harry Potter.

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf

Don Messick - Scooby-Doo (2nd Main Character) / Scrappy-Doo (3rd Main Character)

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire

After solving the mystery of a Cockroach Monster that terrorized a factory, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby decide to take a much needed vacation.

Scooby-Doo! Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom

Designed by Rick Raymer, the game was originally slated to be called Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Gobs O' Fun Ghoul, but was changed by SouthPeak during development.

Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery

It features Scooby and the gang solving a mystery at WrestleMania.

Scooby-Doo's Snack Tracks: The Ultimate Collection

The soundtrack consist of songs and theme songs from the incarnations produced from 1969 to 1985, from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! to The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.

Scrappy-Doo

Another of Scrappy-Doo's catchphrases is, "Ta dadada ta daaa! (imitating a bugle playing "Charge!") Puppy power!", he is also quite strong, capable of smashing down solid rock walls. The character was created by Joseph Barbera and developed by writer Mark Evanier, who has acknowledged that Scrappy's personality was largely based on that of the Looney Tunes character Henery Hawk.

On the soundtrack album, Family Guy: Live in Vegas, Jason Alexander reports that Scrappy is the product of a drunken encounter between Scooby-Doo and Daphne.

Sea-Doo GTX

Part of their Sea-Doo line of watercraft, the Sea-Doo GTX has been produced since 1994.

Shaggy

Shaggy Rogers, a fictional character from the Scooby-Doo series

Skidoo

Ski-Doo, a brand of snowmobiles produced by Bombardier Recreational Products; a generic term for all snowmobiles in much of Canada

Steve Propes

He interviewed dozens of blues and R&B legends, such as Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson, Ruth Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Bo Diddley, Ike Turner, Hank Ballard, Bobby Day, Richard Berry, Don Julian, Brenton Wood, and Eugene Church, as well as doo-wop enthusiast George Carlin.

The Awesome Snakes

Awesome Snakes was a two-person punk rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, featuring Annie "Sparrows" Holoien (The Soviettes, The God Damn Doo Wop Band) on bass and Danny Henry (The Soviettes, France Has The Bomb, International Robot) on drums.

The Flip Squad

It included Funkmaster Flex, Biz Markie, DJ Enuff, Mister Cee, Cipha Sounds, Frankie Cutlass, Big Kap, DJ Riz, "BounceMasta" Doo Wop and Mark Ronson.

Timothy D. Bellavia

Other Sesame Workshop speakers included the award winning animator Jim Jinkins, creator of "Global Thingy" and "Pinky Dinky Doo".

Walking to Hollywood

The conversations with Scooby-Doo, the made-up characters, the sex, lies and videotape – this is a landscape contoured, almost in whole, by Self’s imagination… It is, as always, a place crammed with a Devil’s Dictionary’s worth of wordplay, and with an unerring tendency towards the absurd.


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