All about Pooh as a TV cartoon corpuscule??

What would you have thought bsck in 1971, if you saw a S teleivison animation ad and heard Sterling Holloway..if you thought Disney on TV you would be understanble but wrong.."All About Me" [1972] was a independently produced special about a kid who daydreams his way into his own body [yes, I kid you not] and meets a "Colonel Corpuscule" with Pooh's voice, courtesy of Sterling Holloway. There follows [with apparently no other major voice artists] a trip through his body with inside body villians equalling real diseases. Of course it turns out to be a dream.

It hasn't been seen since..

I mght add that this seems to be Sterling Holloway's mosty oddest and strongest sounding role outside Disney and a rare voice acting role outside Disney animation. It saired as one of the typical Sat.AM animated specials that used to air, here in the early 1970s. It would be interesting to hear more about this.

Credits-thanks to IMDB.I just noticed some familiar names

"All About Me"


A Production of ANIMATED CARTOON PRODUCTIONS

Debuted on Saturday, January 13, 1973 on NBC CHILDRENS SHOWCASE

CAST
Col.Corpuscle/STERLING HOLLOWAY
The Little Boy/PETER HALTON
With NANCY WIBLE, KEN SANSOM & SIMMY BOW

Directed and co-Written by BILL ACKERMAN

Additional writers are CAL HOWARD, ROY FREEMAN, WILLIE ITO, & RIC GONZALES

Produced by EMIL CARLE

Music by C.C.RYDER [I am NOT making that UP!]

FIlm editing by BOB LINVALL

For a full list of credits, see
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351021/fullcredits#writers

Mr.Turtle, Mr.Turtle, Mr,Turtle..MR.COW?????? A look at the original version of that beloved 1969 lollipop commercial

"Mr.Turtle".."Mr.Owl"..then announcer. "Mr.Turtle".."Mr.Owl"..then announcer. "Mr.Turtle".."Mr.Owl"..then announcer.
Okay, you know how that ONE OLD commercial to run, on all stations, not just NICK at NITE as a "Retro-Mercial "starts. Okay, here it again..."Mr.Cow"..WHATTT! Mr.COW. With Frank Nelson doing his famed "Eyessssss" shtick..okay, conversaiton..then okay, little biy meets Mr.TURTLE---wait. No. MR.FOX--with Peter Lorre [Paul Frees}?
Mr.Fox's advice now, though, DOES lead to.."Mr.Turtle".."Mr.Owl"..then announcer. EXCEPT for a little bit of dialogue from the owl
and some smart alecky retort due to the owl eating the kid's lollipop, this is the same..As a matyter of the fact the title is Mr.Cow..won a Cleo award [for ads] in 1971.
Now WHAT WAS that?

It's the original late 1969 version of the memorable, perrenial "Tootsie Pop ad".
You know, the one that at least a lot of you, under, say, 35 years, know as follows:
Boy (goes up to the turtle, Tootsie roll pop in his hand, voiced by Jodie Foster's brother Buddy):"Mister Turtle. How many LICKS does it take to get to the
TootsieTM  Roll center of a Tootsie PopTM"
Turtle (elderly, with glasses, voiced by "Mork and Mindy"'s Ralph James):"I never made it without biting. Ask Mr.
Owl.
(Scene fades)
Boy (now with Owl on tree):"Mr.Owl, How many LICKS does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll
centre of a Tootsie PopTM.
Owl (voiced by Paul Winchell a la British actor Richard Haydn?):"A good QUESTION, let's find out"(licks then bites the kid's sucker!):
"A-one, a two"(then after crunching into it), a-three), (gives lollipop back to boy,who is now very visibled disgrunted) "A thr-r-re"9trills R's)
Announcer (Herschel "Fiddler on the Roof" Bernardi and in the world of commercials, elsewhere in TV land as "Charlie the Tuna", normal tone):
"How many licks Does it take.." You readers already know that ad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhjb4P_jnKk&feature=related
The original was the same with the following..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xMGI-QpZw
It was cut down due to FCC rules agaunst boringly long commercials.. In either case, it's the only surviving ad..and inspired many T shirts, YouTube parodies, as well as the writer-director's original online, done for Fred Wolf, ["The Point",etc/]. Now...just HOW MANY licks DOES it take...depends on whether one eats or lkcks the lollipop..it's never aired in its original form since around 1972, its fourth year.

CAST
The Little Boy/BUDDY FOSTER
The Cow [yesss..male]/FRANK NELSON
The "Peter Lorre-sounding" Fox/PAUL FREES
The Turtle/RALPH JAMES
The Owl/PAUL WINCHELL
The Announcer/HERSCHEL BERNARDI

Happy New Years, and upcoming odds here 'n' ends there

Happy New Year's day to all readers, even if it IS a few days late.

Nothing exactly yet has been planned but ideas are:
"Flintstones" credits from earlier 1960-62 altered to fit one post-Pebbles,1962 episode when the Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures TV fonts since September 1966 when the show first went into syndication [thank you Screen Gems./Columbia TV\and then the restoration of the first seasons by the late Earl Kress to the fit the season each given episode is from, post-childbirth/1962,since circa around 2000, as well as the
use of similiar gang credits from the remainder 1960-62 aince 1995.

At least one look at one obscure Saturday Morning cartoon special.

The real vs imitated voices of animated characters based on 1920s-1960s radio/cartoon voices [example,. Frank Nelson and Howard MacNear alternating being, and impersonting, their respective trademark personas on very early "Flintstones"].

Oddball opening circle/shield titles in Warner Bros.cartoons.


The "Hold the tiger" roaring lion used in some MGM cartoons.

Some long-forgotten animated TV commercials of 1950s-early 1970s and the original "Tootsie Pop Licks" ad as it appeared back in fall/winter 1969 and a "share" commerical from that time.

And many more, as they, hopefully, not neccessarily in that order. I may be starting music and other type blogs, so check back.

And for heaven's sake, go to Internet Animation Database forums and GAC Facebook, and my Your Pony Pal Pokey,too, blog, about the 1950s-60s state of Gumby