Raymond Scott Selections

 

Raymond Scott. Musician. Inventor. Futurist. Possible Time-Traveling Wizard.

Born in Brooklyn, New York circa 1908. He was a Russian-Jew kid (real name, Harry Warnow) who grew up to be a professional pianist first bent on usurping the then common norms of popular Jazz and Swing. Later, from the waning 1940s throughout the 1960s, he was a TV commercial jingle-ist by day and an avant-garde experimentalist of all things electronic sounds by night, so to speak. Below, courtesy of Grooveshark, are but a few samples of his alternate, retro-future-past genius, many of which embody the strange wonders of both the Atomic Age and predawn Computer Revolution.     

 

1. Powerhouse

2. Vicks

3. Electronic Audio Logos, Inc.

4. Portfolio

5. Sprite: Mellonball Bounce

6. General Motors Futurama

7. Bendix: The Tomorrow People

8. Little Miss Echo