When you wrote, this did you notate the singer part/is it you singing?

Oh, it's been a long time since I checked out this place

Just curious, did you approach the studio to be the composer for the show and they simply rejected it?

Josh, it's just not fair and it's just not right. If you ask someone to make something for you and then you decide not to use it, but to scrap it in favor of something else. All that hard work that person put in to making it for nothing. Waste of time. That must be a slap in the face to that person. It's disrespectful, selfish, and just not nice. I feel that's what Scholastic and the producers of Clifford's Puppy Days did to Josh Mancell. It's just not fair, not nice, and just plain RUDE. WHY DIDN'T THEY USE HIS DEMO TRACK AND INSTEAD GO WITH THE REGGAE TRACK THE SHOW ENDED UP WITH?!

This is my demo for the Clifford's Puppy Days spinoff show. It was not chosen by the powers that be... I mean the powers that were. 
Vocals : Jason Michael
Sax : Larry Klimas
Drums/percussion : Martin Flores
Guitar : Van Coppock
Bass : Paul Morin
Organ : JM

Puppy Days theme demo (2003)

Josh Mancell is a Los Angeles-based composer. He has created music for multi-million unit selling video game franchises (Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter), Emmy award-winning television (Clifford the Big Red Dog), festival-acclaimed independent films (The Wake of Light, Love Comes to the Executioner, A Star for Rose, Eat the Sun, etc) and a diverse array of commercials (including Target, McDonalds, EA Games and AT&T), logos and other visual media. Josh is also involved with several bands as both a performer and a producer (Exploding Flowers, Vagrant Winter, Fun Time Objects, Cellborg) and has guest lectured/panel-participated at American Film Institute, Berklee College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Sarah Lawrence College, UC Irvine, Cal Poly Pomona and LA College of Music College. His iconic music for the Crash Bandicoot video games was performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2018 and music from both the Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter games was performed by the Manchester Video Game Orchestra in 2022.

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