Episode 1120
June 25, 2010 Australian Verse
Today’s Warehouse intro verses were penned by Danny Whitmer from Sydney, Australia.
The Voices of Paul Frees
Leo loves the “no windows and no doors” voice at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland – Paul Frees, who also did the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Leo thinks Paul Frees also did Tony the Tiger, although Dick says it’s Bob Jones. Probably both are wrong, as it was Dallas McKennon and Thurl Ravenscroft, a subject previously discussed on DGW. See Episode 271.
The Voice of Eddie Lawrence
Bob Kuehn has a friend who is going through some tough times, and wants to find an audio sample of an old time radio guy whom Dick and Leo talked about, which might just cheer his friend up. Leo knows exactly who – Eddie Lawrence, the Old Philosopher.
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YIKES. As if the FAIL in episode 1120 isn't bad enough, the show notes make it worse.
Leo did NOT indicate he "thinks" Paul Frees was the voice of Tony the Tiger, he said it without qualification. Dick did not say that Bob Jones was the voice of Tony, but that the artist (who often works for MAD) drew the character.
While Paul Frees is generally considered the great master of animation voices (his frequent co-star June Foray declared him as the best she ever worked with in an appearance at a D.C. film society a few years ago), the voice of Tony the Tiger was Thurl Ravenscroft, who like Frees did a lot of work at Disney. The Wikipedia article about Ravenscroft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft) goes so far as to say that the two were often mistaken for each other, so I guess that lets Leo off the hook.
Ravenscroft shared a #1 single with Rosemary Clooney on "This Old House," and will be familiar to most readers as the remarkable voice singing "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch." He also provided the vocal for the Spike Jones spooktacular "Teen-Age Brain Surgeon."