Cartoons

Total songs:
26
Total releases:
16

Cartoons are a Bubblegum dance/pop group from Denmark. They are famous for their outrageous costumes and tongue-in-cheek songs, making children their prime target audience. Cartoons are best known for their 1999 hit single "Witch Doctor" which is a cover of the 1958 novelty song by Ross Bagdasarian.

Cartoons made a brief comeback in 2005 with a greatest hits complilation "Greatest Toons," before fading back into obscurity. In 2017 they revealed plans for a comeback in 2018, and will be touring extensively throughout Scandinavia with the "We Love The 90s" tour. So far there are no plans for a new release.

In July 2016, Karina Jensen died from cancer, after having a double mastectomy in 2012. She was survived by her husband and two children. [3] In April 2019, Erling Jensen sadly passed away.

Members

The group is headlined by 6 members, who each have an appropriate "cartoon" inspired nickname. The members are (in random order):

History

The Cartoons were originally called "The Scooters" in the late 1980s, and played rockabilly music from the 1950s and 1960s. In 1994 they released their album "Live at Woodstock." In 1997 the group changed its name to Cartoons, and began making "technobilly" music, which was the group's own expression of rock 'n' roll mixed with eurodance.

Cartoons are best known for the outlandish plastic costumes and wigs that they wore in their music videos, live performances, and promotional photographs. The costumes were designed to be caricatures of 1950s American rock and roll stars, and many of their hits are Europop covers of old rockabilly hits that they also covered when they were performing as The Scooters.

Cartoon Fame

Cartoons' most successful single is 1999's Witch Doctor, reaching number two in the UK with its combination of the original's "ooh-ee-ooh-aah-aah" chorus, driving dance beat and occasional banjo breaks, hence the term "technobilly". They had further success in the UK with the Top 10 hit Doodah!, the top 20 hit Aisy Waisy, which was performed on Jim Davidson's Generation Game, and had a Top 20 debut album, Toonage (1999).

OST + Compilations

Cartoons has appeared in many compilations and on the soundtrack of many movies. To name a few:

2001 split

Cartoons disbandoned in 2001, and the reason for their split was unknown for many years. Recently, in 2017, Cartoons members Toonie and Sponge revealed what happened in 2001 on a Danish TV interview, in which they also discussed their comeback plan and tours for 2018.

They revealed how they got a call from Madonna's record company, American Records, wanting them to do a US tour in 2001. They chewed on the thought of this idea, and in the end agreed to it. However, when the terrorist attacks of September 11 happened, and 3-4 agents of Madonna's Record Company were actually killed in the twin towers, Cartoons decided to not only cancel the tour, but discontinue the project. They say that after the 911 attack, the entire world was put into stop mode. They no longer felt like it was a time to have fun, and so the project was dropped from there.

2005 Comeback

In 2005 Cartoons made a brief comeback to promote their Greatest Toons release. A new single "Day Oh" was released under the new label "CMC Entertainment."

The group has performed a number of shows throughout Europe since 2005, including at Bonbonland and the Jelling Musikfestival. The official Web site, www.cartoons.dk was active since 2005 but has now been taken down, suggesting that the Cartoons project has once again been abandoned.

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