Sheer Genius. Where is that nightclub? I want to go there NOW. Supposedly Scott was a very difficult bandleader to work with and his rehearsals were utter hell. Band personnel kept changing because they continuously quit the group.
Every thing that his group did when developing a composition used improvisation until it was notated onto sheet music and then there could be no deviations from the sheet music whatsoever. Three things he did that were famous. 1. Wrote the compositions that were the backbone of the Warner Brothers "Looney Tunes" music tracks. 2. Had a hit television show "Your Hit Parade" with his wife (Dorothy Collins) and his musical groups of that time. 3. Most importantly he was the pioneer of modern synthesizers in music and had a young supplier of specific hardware circuits one Robert Moog who branched out and worked on the higher order analog electrical computerization (digital) synthesizers. Yes he was a sheer Genius but that eventually led him to a destitute situation at the end of his life ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott
What's the connection with Cheech and Chong? (well, I understand the drug references, but was it used in a movie?)
Yes. "The song has been featured in fourteen movies, including Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke, Colors, A Gnome Named Gnorm, Robots, 21 Grams, Dazed and Confused, Paulie, Beverly Hills Ninja, A Knight's Tale, the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Friday, The Odd Life of Timothy Green and Beverly Hills Chihuahua." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Rider
