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[jeffbert]

So, Osamu had a thing for classical music?

Not a fair statement, because every movie, TV show, and cartoon, used classical music. True, some used their own compositions, such as Star Trek, Lost in Space, etc having their own leitmotifs for various events or characters, but they were orchestral. However, eventually onther genres of music became popular.

[Astro Forever]

Actually, the exact music G-Pug asked for is different in the English and Japanese versions. It is indeed Edvard Grieg's Hall in the Mountain King in English, but I do not know what the music is in the Japanese version.

Manga Entertainment released the 1980 series in North America on DVD with both the Japanese and English audio. They also did the best they could to put back missing scenes. In the Vickings episode, when the robot dog tries to protect Astro's house, there were some very tiny bits that were cut in the English version as the dog is destroyed by the Vikings. There were no voices at that point. The result: in Manga Entertainment's English track, we hear the Japanese music and, as Astro gets out of his house, suddenly it switches to Grieg's Hall in the Mountain King!

Edit again: as I just read myself again... I'm not even sure anymore that on Manga Entertainment's DVD, we hear Hall of the Mountain King at the beginning.

BTW, French compositer Georges Bizet composed Carmen.

Edit: Welcome G-Pug!

[Astro Forever]

Other bits of classical music in Astroboy: Night on the Bare Mountain by Modest Mussorgski in Robot Land (that's what is played each time Devil King makes an apparition), various parts of Swan Lake (including Spanish Dance when Astro and Elefun arrives on the island), and I think there's also a bit of The Sleeping Beauty, both of these from Tchaikovsky.

There's the very obvious "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" from Rimsky-Korsakov in, well, The Secret of Bee City.

I can't remember, but I guess there's someone's Romeo and Juliet version in Robio and Robiette?

I've always wondered what was the waltz Stanton (I can't remember the little robot name, Tom? Or was that the actor's name? ) danced with Uran's doll in The Robot Stuntman.

There are a lot more, I have always been interested in trying to list every classical piece in the 1980 series.

[G-Pug]

Hey,

Thanks heaps everyone!!! I remembered learning it in High School but that was many years and many beers ago...

Now I'm going through my DVD's picking out the other pieces some of you have nominated. Astro did open my eyes to the world of classical... but the Robot Vikings theme was the one that stuck..

Cheers everyone, and thanks, I know where to come for all my Astroboy knowledge needs

[CommanderEVE]

Even though i did not do any thing.

youre welcome