There were also some notable comedy recordings, including several by Stan Freberg and the Yiddish-dialect parodies of Mickey Katz.

Silverheels also spoofed his Tonto character in a famous Stan Freberg Jeno's Pizza Rolls TV commercial opposite Clayton Moore, as well as in The Phynx, opposite John Hart, both actors having played The Lone Ranger in the original TV series.

It was also referenced in a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, and the 1966 Stan Freberg comedy album Freberg Underground.

A master ad libber, Allen often tangled with his network's executives ( and often barbed them on the air over the battles ), while developing routines the style and substance of which influenced contemporaries and futures among comic talents, including Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson, but his fans also included President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk ( who began his career writing for Allen ).

In 1963's mega-comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Freberg both appeared in a non-speaking part as the Deputy Sheriff and also voiced as a dispatcher.

Freberg also tackled political issues of the day.

Freberg also revisited the " Dragnet " theme, with " Christmas Dragnet ," in which the strait-laced detective convinces a character named " Grudge " that Santa Claus really exists ( and Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and the Easter Bunny, but Grudge still hadn't made up his mind yet about Toledo ).

The terribly hip fife player (" Bix ", performed by Freberg ) and the younger drummer ( played by Walter Tetley ) argue with the older, impossibly square drummer (" Doodle ", also voiced by Freberg ) over how Yankee Doodle should be performed.

The Jud Conlon Singers, who had also appeared on Freberg recordings, were regulars, as was singer Peggy Taylor, who had participated in his " Wun ' erful, Wun ' erful!

Butler also teamed up again with Freberg and cartoon actress June Foray in a CBS radio series, The Stan Freberg Show, which ran from July to October 1957 as a summer replacement for Jack Benny's program.

Along with Stan Freberg, Paul Frees and June Foray, Butler also provided voices for countless children's records featuring recreations of several successful Disney cartoons and films.

They were also known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Richard Pryor, Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones.

Working with May and Freberg, who portrayed Welk, were some of Hollywood's best studio musicians, some of them jazz veterans who also held Welk's music in equal contempt.

Tetley also worked for Capitol Records in the 1950s, providing an array of juvenile voices for the label's spoken-word and comedy albums, including Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years ( 1961 ).

Bugs as usual is voiced by Mel Blanc, as is Curt Martin ; uncredited Stan Freberg and John T. Smith voice Punkin ' head Martin ; Smith also voices the square dance caller before Bugs unplugs the machine.

Ledgin is also author of The Jayhawker ( 2007 ), historical fiction dealing with the 1850s Kansas Border War, and with Bethine Louise of Lee's Summit, MO, coauthor of Sour Notes: A Sally Freberg Mystery ( 2009 ).

Thereafter they were voiced by the principal voice actor, Mel Blanc, and Stan Freberg, who had also voiced secondary Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies duos such as the Goofy Gophers and Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier.

Miller and Frees also performed in separate segments on the audio recording Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America Volume One The Early Years.

Stan Freberg also did a parody of it, in which the male back-up chorus aggravates him by constantly singing " si bon, si bon " at the wrong time.

White was also a member of the stellar band of voiceover actors who voiced Stan Freberg's classic lampoon of American history, Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America: Volume One The Early Years, and thirty-five years later, " The Middle Years.

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" featuring Freberg, voice actor Daws Butler and members of Jud Conlon's Rhythmairs, mocking the show's corny nature, the band's more predictable arrangements and Welk's own mediocre accordion work.

The show, featuring the talents of voice artists Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, would earn Clampett three Emmys.

In 1996, Music's voice could be heard on Stan Freberg's Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume Two album, released as a CD by Rhino Records.

Stanley Victor " Stan " Freberg ( born August 7, 1926 ) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director, whose career began in 1944.

Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after graduating from Alhambra High School.

Contrary to popular belief George Lucas called upon Freberg, not Mel Blanc, to audition for the voice of the character C-3PO for the 1977 film Star Wars.

After he and many others auditioned for the part Freberg suggested that Lucas use mime actor Anthony Daniels ' own voice.

A talented singer with a distinctive voice, she recorded the hits " Let's Do It "; " Champagne Taste "; " C ' est si bon " ( which Stan Freberg famously burlesqued ); " Just an Old Fashioned Girl "; " Monotonous "; " Je cherche un homme "; " Love for Sale "; " I'd Rather Be Burned as a Witch "; " Uskudar ' a Gideriken ( aka Katibim )"; " Mink, Schmink "; " Under the Bridges of Paris "; and her most recognizable hit, " Santa Baby ", which was released in 1953.

As well, there have been several celebrity guest stars who did voice acting on Garfield & Friends for both Garfield & US Acres portions, including Imogene Coca, Stan Freberg, George Foreman, Chick Hearn, James Earl Jones, Marvin Kaplan, Robin Leach, John Moschitta, Jr., Jack Riley, Rod Roddy, Will Ryan, Pat Buttram, Dick Beals, Paul Winchell and Don Knotts.

Time for Beany featured the talents of veteran voice actors Stan Freberg as Cecil and Dishonest John, and Daws Butler as Beany and Uncle Captain.

Donavan Freberg, sometimes credited as Donovan Freberg ( born April 6, 1971 in Los Angeles, California, U. S .) is an American advertising creative, voice actor, photographer, and writer.

In 1960, Stan Freberg did a parody on the Payola Scandal, by calling it " Old Payola Roll Blues ", a two sided single, where the promoter gets an ordinary teenager, named Clyde Ankle, to record a song, for Obscurity Records, entitled " High School OO OO ", and then tries to offer the song to a Jazz radio station with phony deals that the Disc Jockey just won't buy it.

Stan Freberg recorded a satire in 1956, with June Foray, titled The Quest For Bridey Hammerschlaugen, wherein Freberg hypnotizes Goldie Smith to regress to different eras with humorous interruption by Foray.

Freberg is often credited with voicing the character of Junyer Bear in Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears ( 1944 ), but that was actor Kent Rogers.

Freberg was cast to sing the part of the Jabberwock in the song " Beware the Jabberwock " for Disney's Alice in Wonderland, with the Rhythmaires and Daws Butler.

Freberg costarred with Mala Powers in Geraldine ( 1953 ) as sobbing singer Billy Weber, enabling him to reprise his satire on vocalist Johnnie Ray ( see below ).

Freberg began making satirical recordings for Capitol Records, beginning with the February 10, 1951, release of " John and Marsha " ( in both 45-rpm and 78-rpm formats ), a soap opera parody that consisted of the title characters ( both played by Freberg ) repeating each other's names, and " Ragtime Dan ".

Freberg had poked fun at McCarthyism in passing in " Little Blue Riding Hood " with the line, " Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

Side one featured two versions of an introduction by Freberg ( billed as " Stan Freberg, Matinee Idol "), with the second version including a few words from the president of Blitz-Weinhard Co.

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The show failed to attract a sponsor after Freberg decided he did not want to be associated with the tobacco companies that had sponsored Benny.

Daws Butler plays " Mr. Tweedly ," a representative of a fictional citizens ' radio review board, who constantly interrupts Freberg with a loud buzzer as Freberg attempts to sing " Old Man River.

"); for a combined satire of the Batman television series and the 1966 California Governor's race between Edmund G. " Pat " Brown and Ronald Reagan ; and probably most famous for a bit in which, through the magic of sound effects, Freberg drained Lake Michigan and refilled it with hot chocolate and a mountain of whipped cream while a giant maraschino cherry was dropped like a bomb by the Royal Canadian Air Force to the cheers of 25, 000 extras viewing from the shoreline.

Freberg concluded with, " Let's see them do that on television!

* He is referenced at the very end of Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America Volume One The Early Years, a satirical album from 1961, where his name is rhymed with military and revolutionary.