Carl Stalling has been played on NTS shows including Hot Mess, with Anxiety Montage (1952-1955) first played on 8 November 2020.

Carl W. Stalling (November 10, 1891–November 29, 1972) was a noted composer and arranger of music for animated cartoons. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes shorts produced by Warner Bros, where he worked, averaging one complete score each week, for twenty-two years.

Stalling started his career as an accompanist for silent films on the piano and theater organ in Independence, Missouri. It was there that he met and befriended a young Walt Disney who was producing animated comedy shorts in the Kansas…