There have been six instances of Scooby-Doo referencing popular songs within a two-year span of their release.
At the end of "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall" from The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Shaggy and Scooby sing the lyrics "when you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not." These lyrics are from Jerry Reed's song "When You're Hot, You're Hot," which was released in 1971 on the album of the same name. Popular music was referenced twice in the 1980s. The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries had the monsters doing the dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller," which had just been released in 1982 on the album of the same name. In the premiere episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, a vampire artist named Ghoulio sings his song "To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before." This song is a parody of the song "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" with the first verse being exactly the same (besides the fact that "ghouls" is substituted for "girls"). Although the song was recorded in 1975 by Willie Nelson, it didn't gain popularity until 1984 when a duet version featuring Julio Iglesias was released. "I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan was featured in "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine" is featured in What's New, Scooby-Doo?. The song was released two days after the first episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo? premiered, and was included in the episode less than a month after its initial release. The song would go on to great success, charting at #51 on the Billboard Top 100 in the US, and #15 on U.S. pop radio. Later, their songs "The Worst Day Ever" and "You Don't Mean Anything" from their first studio album would also be featured in the episode "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman." The final instance of this is a bit of an odd one, but a song included in Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico was utilized as a chase song, and was not made for the movie. That song is "¿A Donde Vas?" by Carolina Lao. The song was released the same year as the movie came out. Both this and Simple Plan have the likely explanation of being included in Scooby-Doo as a way to help promote their first albums, as that was a strategy frequently used by Warner Brothers Records back in the day (as Lindsay Pagano has mentioned in the fun fact she wrote for this blog).
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scoobydoouk
9/20/2022 06:11:24 am
That's really funny lol, the cel I bought shows up just after the shot in the picture haha. It's when dracula's hand turns from human to werewolf. There's one layer for the hand and microphone, then another for each alternative hand in the sequence. I have the last cel in the sequence which is the fully transformed werewolf hand.
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9/20/2022 07:52:10 am
Oh wow, that's really cool haha! Glad you got the cel :)
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Matt
9/20/2022 10:42:52 am
I’d love it if there were to be more music references in Scooby Doo
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9/20/2022 07:38:47 pm
As someone who is super into music, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
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