quantumeffect
OK, now my brain just hurts.
 

"The Cartoon Music Book" is a fabulous history that goes back to the 1900's and all the way to about 2000 and just after it, when the Carl Stalling, and other CD's of some of these people's music were put together by various folks.
 
It is, the single greatest history of music of any country out there, you could possibly EVER want to hear and appreciate. The problem is, when you hear the music without the cartoons, it's not the same thing ... you and I do not have the imagination to live through that kind of music (we're too melody driven) ... to be able to have the imagination to "see it".
 
It's a crazy exercise ... but a worthy one, if you are not stuck up on just the stuff you play!