On his excellent as always blog, Yowp Yowp has finally come across the name (details on how in the blog) of a sweet potato aka ocarino cue with electric guitar, possibly an early jazz-rock cue in Hanna-Barbera, that shuffled across soundtracks of three Auggie/Doggie Daddy cartoons, "Mars Little Precious","A Peck O'Trouble", and "Yuk Yuk Duck", as well in other productions (possibly some of "Ruff and Redddy" and the 1964 "Pinocchio in Outer Space').
The cue in question, Hecky Krasnow's "Swinging Ghosts" is a weird, even funny one that should have been made more use of it--its composer, a Sam Fox
music library regular who was formerly with Columbia Records childrens dept., had written the longrunning Doggie/Daddy stock cue "The Happy Cobbler" but also veteran UK bandleader (also hugely known for years in the US) Ted Heath and also The Vampires did this as a ?commercially? released song.
Link on Yowp's blog urlhttp://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2016/04/hecky-ghosts-and-augie-doggie.html again for more..
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Sunday, May 17, 2015
RIP, JOHN STEPHENSON, 1923-2015, this time for real
Forget about the last FAKE death notice that someone tried doing..
There were rumors 3 years ago of John Stephenson, also known as Fred Flintstone's bossy employer G.T.Slate,
and the assorted Cary grant, Edward Everett Horton, W.C.Fields, Howard McNear, Frank Nelson,etc. sounding
Bedrock inhabitants all on the show, and of Top Cat's Cary Grant like buddy "Fancy Fancy", and of Johnny Quest's
dad Dr.Quest (when Don Messick wasn't doing the voice), and finally of all those Scooby Doo villians, and of many other
announcements (from Dragnet TV announcings)to current Account-Temps radio ads) having passed on.
At the time, back then, proven false.
Life could go on.
But now all those rumors are finally proven true, as over the weekend Mr.Stephenson finally, at 91, succumbed.
You can read much more here:
http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2015/05/john-stephenson.html
A native of Kenosha, Illinois, John Stephenson started doing a number of radio shows and TV as well, very admirable, even appearing in the very first
I Love Lucy (most voice artists this side of Mel Blanc appeared there)..and , well, Yowp (JGB) has more on it..
RIP George Slate, Fancy Fancy, the E.E.Horton like "Dr.Stonewall" ("When a person's sick he needs help, help help help", season 2's "X-Ray Story), Perry Gunite (doing that real hip wlak to heaven that he did when going into his
P.I.office when Fred viuisited him-Season1's "Love Letters"), the X-Ray doctor who also had the Horton like voice ("If a HUMAN ever got a DINOPEPETIC germ? Oo..we doctors even HATE to think ABOUT it", also from
Season 2,"X-Ray Story), the policemen, Hollyrock directors,etc.on the Stones, Top Cat's Grant sounding "Fancy Fancy", Johnny Quest's beloved dad, and even that guy at the amusement park who..oh yeah. Old Man Dithers (HEY....anyone who can gripe about Scooby Doobie
and those meddling kids is okay in our bookeroo!)
There were rumors 3 years ago of John Stephenson, also known as Fred Flintstone's bossy employer G.T.Slate,
and the assorted Cary grant, Edward Everett Horton, W.C.Fields, Howard McNear, Frank Nelson,etc. sounding
Bedrock inhabitants all on the show, and of Top Cat's Cary Grant like buddy "Fancy Fancy", and of Johnny Quest's
dad Dr.Quest (when Don Messick wasn't doing the voice), and finally of all those Scooby Doo villians, and of many other
announcements (from Dragnet TV announcings)to current Account-Temps radio ads) having passed on.
At the time, back then, proven false.
Life could go on.
But now all those rumors are finally proven true, as over the weekend Mr.Stephenson finally, at 91, succumbed.
You can read much more here:
http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2015/05/john-stephenson.html
A native of Kenosha, Illinois, John Stephenson started doing a number of radio shows and TV as well, very admirable, even appearing in the very first
I Love Lucy (most voice artists this side of Mel Blanc appeared there)..and , well, Yowp (JGB) has more on it..
RIP George Slate, Fancy Fancy, the E.E.Horton like "Dr.Stonewall" ("When a person's sick he needs help, help help help", season 2's "X-Ray Story), Perry Gunite (doing that real hip wlak to heaven that he did when going into his
P.I.office when Fred viuisited him-Season1's "Love Letters"), the X-Ray doctor who also had the Horton like voice ("If a HUMAN ever got a DINOPEPETIC germ? Oo..we doctors even HATE to think ABOUT it", also from
Season 2,"X-Ray Story), the policemen, Hollyrock directors,etc.on the Stones, Top Cat's Grant sounding "Fancy Fancy", Johnny Quest's beloved dad, and even that guy at the amusement park who..oh yeah. Old Man Dithers (HEY....anyone who can gripe about Scooby Doobie
and those meddling kids is okay in our bookeroo!)
Sunday, April 12, 2015
And folks, that was just the TIP of the Freberg.
In addition to Gary Owens, master satirist and actor Stan Freberg (August 7,1926, Pasadena California-April 2015) has also died..
Freberg started out hopefully to do radio and did radio and early Columbia/WB cartoons starting around the 1940s., then Lantz/Universal and others.
Played a Kangaroo in "Kongoroo"(Columbia,1946)
A Horse, Charlie, in "You're a Grand Old Nag"(Bob Clampett/RKO,his only short,1946)
The early puppet Cecil the Sea Sick Sea Serpent from the same mastermind, who of course with Freberg ALSO worked at WB. Speaking of which:
MOST people TODay, THOUGH probably most know his 1940s-1950s Warner work the most:
Bertie the mouse to Mel Blanc 's Hubie in late 40s Hubie and Bertie cartoons
Grover the Groundhog from "One Meat Brawl" (1947)
Post-"Bugs Bunny and the Three bears" Junyer (voiced by Mel Blanc originally)
Elmo, the mouse "at 2706" where his gal is, and the cat chasing him in the end (with the Jimmy Durante voice) in "A Hick, A Slick, and a Chick" (with Mel Blanc doing the "drunk" voice)(1948)
Pete Puma, the hapless cougar after that little chipmunk like rabbit and talking with a Frank Fontaine voice (EEEEEE) in "Rabbit's Kin" (1952)
The Gambling Bug from "Early to Bet"("Oh no, not that! NOT the POST!") (1951)
The lead of the Goofy Gophers in ALL their shorts prior to their weak final one, the inexplicably angry and teamed Daffy-Gophers short "Tease for Two" where Mel Blanc did both voices (the Gopher twins being a reversal with Freberg and Blanc in order unlike Hubie and Bertie,in addition
to various earlier actors like writers Tedd Pierce and Mike Maltese then actor-mimic Dick Nelson an d Freberg as Hubie and Bertie)
The namelsss beagle who acts as the "Foxy by Proxy"(1951) foxhound. (1952)
Credited for once, the "Three Little Bops" though the old GAC forums who I'm on as Pokey J.,Anti-Blockhead still disputes it, saying Daws Butler was some of those.
Here's some more (as of Sunday, April 12,2015)
The gander who acutally DID lay a golden egg in "Golden Yeggs"(1950) and credits Daffy with it.(HOW HE, a GANDER and NOT a female goose COULD, let alone a GOLDEN one...well, say along: it's......only......a........God.....what.........beavers.......make.........cartoon
The hungry little mouse who tried to make a meal of Sylvester ("I forgot what food tastes like!" LOL) in "Snow Business"(?)
The American and Richard Haydn/Shepard Menken Brit Professor mouse in "By Word of Mouse" (Mel was the German mouse).
The piano mouse in "Pizzicato Pussycat"
and so many more..
Freberg hated rock m,usic but hated censorship even more,also a target of his, so instead of banning rock, he satirized THAT.."That's good enough for jazz"..!
and others.
Freberg may have subbed for Daws Butler in early Pixie, Dixie and Jinks shorts as Jinks the cat, he also did the goofy bird Bert for those two Disney limited-animated music shorts with Prof.Owl(Bill Thompson), both from 1953:"Melody" and the Oscar winner of 1954,"Toot whistle plunk and Boom", and even at MGM, in a story similar to WB's "A Hick, AQ Slick", in a "Hick Chick" as the title character. Stan incredibly was quite young..interesting, amongst his many pet peeves at the time, he hated, HATED dimwit voices (even Junyer?)
By 1952, Stan Freberg was now getting known on Capitol as a recording artist:
John and Marsha (a parody of soap operas)\
Try (a parody of Johnny Ray)
His many spoofs of ads and rock and roll songs
and also Ertha Kitt!!
C'est Si Bon"
FREBERG:"Awright, misieu"(he's playing a Frenchman here)"Zi Bon Zi Bon, like ZAT!"
SINGERS:"Zi Bon, Zi Bon, like zat!"
FREBERG (furious) (inarticulate babbling)(relaxed now)"No no, not zi zi bon like zat. Just Si Bon Si Bon, Forget ze like zat."
SINGERS (imitating too much)"Zi Bon, Zi Bon Forget ze like zat!"
FREBERG (outraged):"NO NO! JUST ZEEE BON ZEEEE BON PERIOHDDDD:
SINGERS (again taking things too far):"ZEE ZEE BON PERIODDD:
FREBERG (completely snapping):ARRGGGGGGHHHH YOU (curses)
(offering to do it himself) LIKE ZIT
(orchestra swells)
(later)
SINGERS:Zi Zi Bon
FREBERG: WHY YOU NOT WAIT FOR ZE COTTIN PEEKING SIGNALL
(Freberg later feels okay to let the singers, or, zee zingels, in French, do the song and Freberg, speaking, ad libs additional words)
Spoofing rock and advertising, he actually pretended, as a true satirist, to endorse it, which was what got Capitol Records (1958) worried about that year's 2 parter extraStan-vragaStanza "Green Christmas"-I mean, "Chri$tma$". Two "esses" in them and they are both dollar signs.
It was just exactly things like that spoof that worried Capitol Records, but they released Freberg's records and he himself made a ton of cash and then some (but isn't that, uh, counterproductive?:D)
and became rich./
However ironic his money may have been,. Freberg's was well earned, and earned more from later ads all the way through the 80s-early 90s with son Donovan. He also appeared on the show Garfield (which is out of my hobby to-do list though..) and later WB cartoons as the studio went through the 1990s (and invited comparative comments from folk like me with all due respect along the line of "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" regarding the original Warner studio, as it had by 1969 when it closed already contributed true quality. Those truly outlasted anything that WB or anything else had done through the 1990s and remain among, not the only, but among Stan Freberg's true hiofts..
He also influenced many, including clearly Phil Hendrie of radio fame with HIS talk show with thew fake characters, in the "Bud Dickman/David G.Hall" sketches. See Phil Hendrie show . (If you've ever heard David G.Hall, YOU try to separate that from a Freberg Capitol song spoof sketch!) Pretty eerie similiary...and that..wraps that up..Oh wait..>Ann Miller's tomotatoes haven't come in....All I can say is, ya gotta play hot, and Stan did.,.RIP.
Freberg started out hopefully to do radio and did radio and early Columbia/WB cartoons starting around the 1940s., then Lantz/Universal and others.
Played a Kangaroo in "Kongoroo"(Columbia,1946)
A Horse, Charlie, in "You're a Grand Old Nag"(Bob Clampett/RKO,his only short,1946)
The early puppet Cecil the Sea Sick Sea Serpent from the same mastermind, who of course with Freberg ALSO worked at WB. Speaking of which:
MOST people TODay, THOUGH probably most know his 1940s-1950s Warner work the most:
Bertie the mouse to Mel Blanc 's Hubie in late 40s Hubie and Bertie cartoons
Grover the Groundhog from "One Meat Brawl" (1947)
Post-"Bugs Bunny and the Three bears" Junyer (voiced by Mel Blanc originally)
Elmo, the mouse "at 2706" where his gal is, and the cat chasing him in the end (with the Jimmy Durante voice) in "A Hick, A Slick, and a Chick" (with Mel Blanc doing the "drunk" voice)(1948)
Pete Puma, the hapless cougar after that little chipmunk like rabbit and talking with a Frank Fontaine voice (EEEEEE) in "Rabbit's Kin" (1952)
The Gambling Bug from "Early to Bet"("Oh no, not that! NOT the POST!") (1951)
The lead of the Goofy Gophers in ALL their shorts prior to their weak final one, the inexplicably angry and teamed Daffy-Gophers short "Tease for Two" where Mel Blanc did both voices (the Gopher twins being a reversal with Freberg and Blanc in order unlike Hubie and Bertie,in addition
to various earlier actors like writers Tedd Pierce and Mike Maltese then actor-mimic Dick Nelson an d Freberg as Hubie and Bertie)
The namelsss beagle who acts as the "Foxy by Proxy"(1951) foxhound. (1952)
Credited for once, the "Three Little Bops" though the old GAC forums who I'm on as Pokey J.,Anti-Blockhead still disputes it, saying Daws Butler was some of those.
Here's some more (as of Sunday, April 12,2015)
The gander who acutally DID lay a golden egg in "Golden Yeggs"(1950) and credits Daffy with it.(HOW HE, a GANDER and NOT a female goose COULD, let alone a GOLDEN one...well, say along: it's......only......a........God.....what.........beavers.......make.........cartoon
The hungry little mouse who tried to make a meal of Sylvester ("I forgot what food tastes like!" LOL) in "Snow Business"(?)
The American and Richard Haydn/Shepard Menken Brit Professor mouse in "By Word of Mouse" (Mel was the German mouse).
The piano mouse in "Pizzicato Pussycat"
and so many more..
Freberg hated rock m,usic but hated censorship even more,also a target of his, so instead of banning rock, he satirized THAT.."That's good enough for jazz"..!
and others.
Freberg may have subbed for Daws Butler in early Pixie, Dixie and Jinks shorts as Jinks the cat, he also did the goofy bird Bert for those two Disney limited-animated music shorts with Prof.Owl(Bill Thompson), both from 1953:"Melody" and the Oscar winner of 1954,"Toot whistle plunk and Boom", and even at MGM, in a story similar to WB's "A Hick, AQ Slick", in a "Hick Chick" as the title character. Stan incredibly was quite young..interesting, amongst his many pet peeves at the time, he hated, HATED dimwit voices (even Junyer?)
By 1952, Stan Freberg was now getting known on Capitol as a recording artist:
John and Marsha (a parody of soap operas)\
Try (a parody of Johnny Ray)
His many spoofs of ads and rock and roll songs
and also Ertha Kitt!!
C'est Si Bon"
FREBERG:"Awright, misieu"(he's playing a Frenchman here)"Zi Bon Zi Bon, like ZAT!"
SINGERS:"Zi Bon, Zi Bon, like zat!"
FREBERG (furious) (inarticulate babbling)(relaxed now)"No no, not zi zi bon like zat. Just Si Bon Si Bon, Forget ze like zat."
SINGERS (imitating too much)"Zi Bon, Zi Bon Forget ze like zat!"
FREBERG (outraged):"NO NO! JUST ZEEE BON ZEEEE BON PERIOHDDDD:
SINGERS (again taking things too far):"ZEE ZEE BON PERIODDD:
FREBERG (completely snapping):ARRGGGGGGHHHH YOU (curses)
(offering to do it himself) LIKE ZIT
(orchestra swells)
(later)
SINGERS:Zi Zi Bon
FREBERG: WHY YOU NOT WAIT FOR ZE COTTIN PEEKING SIGNALL
(Freberg later feels okay to let the singers, or, zee zingels, in French, do the song and Freberg, speaking, ad libs additional words)
Spoofing rock and advertising, he actually pretended, as a true satirist, to endorse it, which was what got Capitol Records (1958) worried about that year's 2 parter extraStan-vragaStanza "Green Christmas"-I mean, "Chri$tma$". Two "esses" in them and they are both dollar signs.
It was just exactly things like that spoof that worried Capitol Records, but they released Freberg's records and he himself made a ton of cash and then some (but isn't that, uh, counterproductive?:D)
and became rich./
However ironic his money may have been,. Freberg's was well earned, and earned more from later ads all the way through the 80s-early 90s with son Donovan. He also appeared on the show Garfield (which is out of my hobby to-do list though..) and later WB cartoons as the studio went through the 1990s (and invited comparative comments from folk like me with all due respect along the line of "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" regarding the original Warner studio, as it had by 1969 when it closed already contributed true quality. Those truly outlasted anything that WB or anything else had done through the 1990s and remain among, not the only, but among Stan Freberg's true hiofts..
He also influenced many, including clearly Phil Hendrie of radio fame with HIS talk show with thew fake characters, in the "Bud Dickman/David G.Hall" sketches. See Phil Hendrie show . (If you've ever heard David G.Hall, YOU try to separate that from a Freberg Capitol song spoof sketch!) Pretty eerie similiary...and that..wraps that up..Oh wait..>Ann Miller's tomotatoes haven't come in....All I can say is, ya gotta play hot, and Stan did.,.RIP.
Friday, February 13, 2015
And NOW from Beautiful downtown Burbank, Going to heaven
As by now, you've no doubt heard, Gary Owens, known for Laugh In, Space Ghost, and many other shows has died. In my very humble opinion this is the best thing he ever did and one of his first famous roles: Roger Ramjet.
http://youtu.be/SIbFJmCUxsA
http://youtu.be/SIbFJmCUxsA
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Well, Bless My Soul....It's BOTTLES (1936)
Sorry for the nearly year long absence...I was sidetracked with many other on and off line projects.
Anyway.
Like any animation studio, The early, Harman-Ising (post-Warner Bros.) MGM cartoons experimented with Disney type happy/scary musical thingies come to life.
One such was in their second full release season (1935-1936), "Bottles" (named just that). It's the famous story of a pharmarcist who gets shrunked down by a skeleton (veteran radio/cartoon voice
Martha Wentworth)
right like the following year's "Snow White" (Disney)'s Wicked Witch (post-Queen) and the skeleton in her dungeon combined and then meeting happy bottles, then scary ones.
Apparnetly both produced and directed by Hugh Harman & Rudy Ising, this runs 10-1/2 minutes long and relies generally on a version of the old song "Little Brown Jug"
and an original piece called "Diapies" sung by three baby bottles (Bereneice Hansell in ALL roles). Graham Webb's only semi-reliable 2000 "Animated Film Encyclopedia"
(McFaarlne Press, Jefferson, N.C.) (in terms of some credits) identifies Frank Nelson (who would've been WAY pre-his famous "Yesss!"), Elmore Vincent (presumably as our hero) and some others.
Aforementioned Miss Wentworth (1889-1974) also recognizably plays Witch.....Hazel. (even then, that name used and it was originally a medicine!)
At the end it's all a dream with the shortest post-wake up come around ending.."Well..BLESS MY SOUL!"(our hero the druggist.)
These 3-color (full color) 30s Technicolor MGM cartoons soon competed with WB (who was going form B&W to CInecolor to 2coilor Tech to 3CTech, which Warners was doing with "I wanna play house" and slowly others following
Disney with "Band Concert" fully were doing..Columbia, and with Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers, ever the penny pincher - with all due respects :D - continued in B&W, and Paramount./Fleischer was doing this for a while more.)
Scott Bradley put all those songs and music themes together...msuci for druggists to run from...
Anyway.
Like any animation studio, The early, Harman-Ising (post-Warner Bros.) MGM cartoons experimented with Disney type happy/scary musical thingies come to life.
One such was in their second full release season (1935-1936), "Bottles" (named just that). It's the famous story of a pharmarcist who gets shrunked down by a skeleton (veteran radio/cartoon voice
Martha Wentworth)
right like the following year's "Snow White" (Disney)'s Wicked Witch (post-Queen) and the skeleton in her dungeon combined and then meeting happy bottles, then scary ones.
Apparnetly both produced and directed by Hugh Harman & Rudy Ising, this runs 10-1/2 minutes long and relies generally on a version of the old song "Little Brown Jug"
and an original piece called "Diapies" sung by three baby bottles (Bereneice Hansell in ALL roles). Graham Webb's only semi-reliable 2000 "Animated Film Encyclopedia"
(McFaarlne Press, Jefferson, N.C.) (in terms of some credits) identifies Frank Nelson (who would've been WAY pre-his famous "Yesss!"), Elmore Vincent (presumably as our hero) and some others.
Aforementioned Miss Wentworth (1889-1974) also recognizably plays Witch.....Hazel. (even then, that name used and it was originally a medicine!)
At the end it's all a dream with the shortest post-wake up come around ending.."Well..BLESS MY SOUL!"(our hero the druggist.)
These 3-color (full color) 30s Technicolor MGM cartoons soon competed with WB (who was going form B&W to CInecolor to 2coilor Tech to 3CTech, which Warners was doing with "I wanna play house" and slowly others following
Disney with "Band Concert" fully were doing..Columbia, and with Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers, ever the penny pincher - with all due respects :D - continued in B&W, and Paramount./Fleischer was doing this for a while more.)
Scott Bradley put all those songs and music themes together...msuci for druggists to run from...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
DON'T BLAME THE COW!
Many companies used animated commercials often using many Golden Age Cartoon-or GAC-people in them. Here, here's a 1960s Kix ad using Frank ("Yessssss") Nelson (or imitator thereof) as the cow who did a few ads-"Don't blame the cow"! Would YOU blame a COW....it if got YOUR milk SOGGY?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyyf0GmJcl0
PS UPDATE: Thanks to fellow Facebook friend Dann Pryce, it turns out Punchy (Hawaiian Punch) and Batfink and Karate of Batfink's Len Maxwell is the Frank Nelson-like cow.......[5/17/14].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyyf0GmJcl0
PS UPDATE: Thanks to fellow Facebook friend Dann Pryce, it turns out Punchy (Hawaiian Punch) and Batfink and Karate of Batfink's Len Maxwell is the Frank Nelson-like cow.......[5/17/14].
Sunday, December 1, 2013
RIP DIANE DISNEY MILLER, 1933-2013.
She was dedicated to the history of her late famous dad, Walter Elias Disney. She was dedicated to Disneyland.
Diane Disney Miller has passed away had the age of almost 80 (d.12/18/33). . Walt's only actual biological child (along with stepsister Sharon Disney, who already died in 1993), Diane was
one of the biggest fans of her own legendary dad in order to preserve the legacy of the Disney Archives and studio, and the
various academies that Disney supported. Her death was provoked by a fall off a ladder, but it wasn't what killed her, but
it did aggravate it. She also helped a lot with the Disney Family Museum.
Diane Disney Miller has passed away had the age of almost 80 (d.12/18/33). . Walt's only actual biological child (along with stepsister Sharon Disney, who already died in 1993), Diane was
one of the biggest fans of her own legendary dad in order to preserve the legacy of the Disney Archives and studio, and the
various academies that Disney supported. Her death was provoked by a fall off a ladder, but it wasn't what killed her, but
it did aggravate it. She also helped a lot with the Disney Family Museum.
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