At that time, when it was still hoped that musical standards might be preserved, it was quite permissible to ridicule the ludicrous, as Freberg had obviously thought when he parodied Presley.

Network pressure forced Freberg to remove the reference to the hydrogen bomb and had the two cities being destroyed by an earthquake instead.

In 1960, in light of the payola scandal, Freberg made a two-sided single entitled " Old Payola Roll Blues ," which had a corrupt recording studio promoter ( Jesse White ) who gets a teenager who cannot sing to record a song called " High School OO OO ," as well as the flip side, " I Was on My Way to High School.

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!

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.

Even when the censor finds Freberg's machinations acceptable, the constant interruption ultimately brings the song to a grinding halt ( just before Freberg would have had to edit the line " You gets a little drunk and you lands in jail "), saying, " Take your finger off the button, Mr. Tweedly — we know when we're licked ," furnishing the moral and the punch line of the sketch at once.

Freberg reprised the Welk character for his last radio show, wherein the fictional Welk ( who apparently had as much contempt for Freberg as Freberg did for Welk ) responded to the show's cancellation with the following terse response: " Ha.

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.

series, replacing Stan Freberg ( who had hosted the show since 1995 ).

*" Banana Boat ( Day-O )" by Stan Freberg, produced in the 1950s by Capitol Records, features ongoing disagreement between an enthusiastic lead singer and a bongo-playing beatnik ( Peter Leeds ) who " don't dig loud noises " and had the catchphrase " You're too loud, man ".

Satirists such as Stan Freberg and Tom Lehrer used novelty songs to poke fun at contemporary pop culture in the early 1950s.

In the 1960s, Zagnut made fun of its unlikely name with a TV commercial created by Stan Freberg.

" As a result, the song's lyrics are progressively and painfully distorted as Freberg struggles to turn the classic song into a form that Tweedly will find acceptable " to the tiny tots " listening at home: " He don't, er, doesn't plant ' taters, er, potatoes … he doesn't plant cotton, er, cotting … and them-these-those that plants them are soon forgotting ," a lyric of which Freberg is particularly proud.

* Narrator ( voiced by Stan Freberg ): The narrator of the series, who would often be heard at intervals and broke the fourth wall, telling the audience points where he considered trouble ahead for the Wuzzles or explaining a certain facet of the island of Wuz.

* 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.

In 1950, Daws Butler ( foreground ) and Stan Freberg are backstage doing both voices and puppeteering on Bob Clampett's Time for Beany ( 1949 – 1954 ) at KTLA in Los Angeles.

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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.

Freberg was heard in many Warner Brothers cartoons, but his only screen credit on one was Three Little Bops ( 1957 ).

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.

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 ).

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 also provided the voice of Sam, the orange cat paired with Sylvester in the Academy Award-winning Mouse and Garden ( 1960 ).

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 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 ).

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 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.

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!

Freberg used the line " Just the facts, ma ' am " which entered popular lexionography associated with Dragnet, in spite of the TV series never using that phrase.

The notion of well-known or predictable music pieces gone awry has long been practiced by artists as diverse as Stan Freberg, Spike Jones or P. D. Q. Bach.

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.

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

" Bob and Ray, Kovacs and Freberg all became contributors to Mad.

Contributing just twice are such luminaries as Tom Lehrer, Gustave Doré, Danny Kaye, Stan Freberg, Mort Walker and Leonardo da Vinci.

" 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.

After several " performances " and frequent asides from Freberg of " turn off the bubble machine ," the machine spun out of control, sending the Aragon Ballroom floating out to sea.

Quiz shows were lampooned on It Pays to Be Ignorant, and other memorable parodies were presented by such satirists as Spike Jones, Stoopnagle and Budd, Stan Freberg and Bob and Ray.

Radio humorist Stan Freberg parodied " Heartbreak Hotel " immediately after its release, because the vocals on the original record featured a heavy use of reverb.

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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.

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

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

He introduced a new generation to the manic big-band parodies of Spike Jones, the musical black humor of Tom Lehrer, and the many novelty records recorded by satirist Stan Freberg in the 1950s.

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.

Allen was an influence on the writing and comedic timing of satirist Stan Freberg.

* In the 1950s, Stan Freberg and Daws Butler wrote and performed St. George and the Dragon-Net ( a spoof of the tale and of Dragnet ) for Freberg's radio show.

At the end, Foray hypnotizes Freberg, who becomes Davy Crockett ; when Foray tells him that he won't be able to profit on the recent Davy Crockett products, Freberg says that in his next life, he would become Walt Disney.