Talk:Cartoon Suction Sound/@comment-26104212-20180523215344/@comment-38483350-20191225192731

Honestly, Willie, I disagree with you. Rankin/Bass was situated in New York, and H-B was in Hollywood. Realistically, I doubt any of their original sounds ended up with H-B for that reason, although some Jay Ward/Joe Siracusa sounds ended up with Total TV and were used in "Underdog," and those two studios were on seperate coasts.

It's possible, though, that Tom Clack or one of the other sound people at R-B somehow acquired this sound and other H-B effects. I've heard the H-B "quick fiddle zip up, high" in "The Leperchaun's Christmas Gold." Of course, some H-B sounds show up in "Frosty the Snowman," "Cricket on the Hearth" and "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town," but the post-production audio for those was done by Phil Kaye and his team, likely on the West Coast. Kaye was in the Hollywood area, so there's that. Entries for the "Festival of Family Classics" and a couple of specials on this Wiki mention certain Jay Ward sounds like the "cannon firing" and "funny rhythmic motor running", but I don't know if the post audio there was done on the East or West coasts.

I imagine one of the editors who have this sound in their library might be able to tell us something about it. Possibly Jeff Hutchins or Roy Braverman, as they've used it frequently. There's the possibility they don't know a thing about their origin, but it's worth a shot.