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Stan Freberg

Born August 7, 1926 (1926-08-07) (age 81)
Los Angeles, California

Stanley Victor Freberg (born August 7, 1926, in Los Angeles) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, puppeteer and advertising creative director. Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience primarily by making them laugh A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object — a Puppet — in real time to create the illusion of life Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand

The son of a Baptist minister, Stan Freberg grew up in Pasadena, California. Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. His traditional upbringing is reflected both in the gentle sensitivity which underpins his work, despite his liberal use of biting satire and parody, and in his refusal to accept alcohol and tobacco manufacturers as sponsors (an impediment to his radio career when he took over for Jack Benny on CBS radio), as Freberg explained to Rusty Pipes:

After I replaced Jack Benny in 1957, they were unable to sell me with spot announcements in the show. Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American Comedian, vaudevillian CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. That would mean that every three minutes I'd have to drop a commercial in. So I said, 'Forget it, I want to be sponsored by one person like Benny was, by American Tobacco or State Farm Insurance,' except that I wouldn't let them sell me to American Tobacco. I refused to let them sell me to any cigarette company. [1]

Stan Freberg's first wife, Donna, died in 2000, and he married Betty Hunter in 2001.

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Animation

Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after graduating from high school. He began at Warner Brothers in 1944 by taking the advice of his uncle, stage magician Raymond Freberg (Conray the Magician), who advised him to take a bus into Los Angeles and have the driver let him off "in central Los Angeles," whereupon Freberg was to walk into the first building he saw and ask for an audition. He did this, got off the bus when he saw a sign that said "talent agency," walked in and immediately found work at Warner Brothers, as he described in his autobiography, It Only Hurts When I Laugh (Times Books, 1988). [2]

In 1950, Daws Butler and Stan Freberg are backstage doing both voices and puppeteering on Bob Clampett's Time for Beany (1949-54) at KTLA in Los Angeles. Freberg operates Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent and Dishonest John, while Butler handles Captain Huffenpuff and Beany.
In 1950, Daws Butler and Stan Freberg are backstage doing both voices and puppeteering on Bob Clampett's Time for Beany (1949-54) at KTLA in Los Angeles. Freberg operates Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent and Dishonest John, while Butler handles Captain Huffenpuff and Beany.

His first was Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944) as Junyer Bear, followed by Roughly Speaking (1946) as Bertie, and in 1947, he was heard in It's a Grand Old Nag (Charlie Horse), The Goofy Gophers (Tosh), and One Meat Brawl (Grover Groundhog and Walter Winchell). Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short released in 1944, directed by Junyer Bear was a Looney Tunes Cartoon character directed by Chuck Jones for each episode he was in The Goofy Gophers are animated Cartoon characters in the Warner Bros Walter Winchell ( April 7, 1897 &ndash February 20, 1972) was an American newspaper and radio commentator He often found himself paired off with Mel Blanc while at Warner Brothers, where the two men performed such pairs as the Goofy Gophers, Hubie and Bertie, and Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier. Melvin "Mel" Jerome Blanc ( May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and Comedian Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Hubie and Bertie are animated cartoon Mouse characters in the Warner Bros Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier are animated cartoon characters in the Warner Bros [3] He was also the voice of Junyer Bear in Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes cartoon What's Brewin', Bruin? (1948), featuring Jones' version of The Three Bears. Junyer Bear was a Looney Tunes Cartoon character directed by Chuck Jones for each episode he was in Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones ( September 21, 1912 &ndash February 22, 2002) was an American Animator, Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros Animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969 The Three Bears are animated cartoon characters in the Warner Bros Another was the voice of Pete Puma in the 1952 cartoon, Rabbit's Kin, in which he did an impression of Frank Fontaine's "Crazy Guggenheim" voice. Pete Puma is a Cartoon puma, voiced by Stan Freberg. He first debuted in the November 15, 1952 Rabbit's Kin, Rabbit's Kin is a Merrie Melodies short released on November 15, 1952. Frank Fontaine ( 19 April 1920 – 4 August 1978) was an American Comedian and Singer.

From 1949 to 1954, he and frequent collaborator Daws Butler provided voices and were the puppeteers for Bob Clampett's puppet series, Time for Beany, a triple Emmy Award winner (1950, 1951, 1953). Daws Butler ( Charles Dawson Butler; November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988) was a Voice actor born in Toledo, A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object — a Puppet — in real time to create the illusion of life Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett ( May 8 1913 &mdash May 4 1984) was an American Animator, producer A puppet is a representational figure manipulated by a Puppeteer. Time for Beany was an American Television series with puppets for characters which aired locally in Los Angeles starting in 1949 and nationally on the improvised

Freberg's first credit as a voice actor in a Looney Tunes cartoon was in Three Little Bops (1957). Three Little Bops is a 1957 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, with voices by Stan Freberg and music by Jazz composer/trumpeter His work as a voice actor for Walt Disney Productions included the role of Beaver in Lady and the Tramp (1955). Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 Animated feature film produced by Walt Disney, and originally released to theaters on June 22, 1955 by He succeeded Kent Rogers as the voice of Beaky Buzzard during production of The Bashful Buzzard after Rogers was killed in World War II. Kent Rogers (died July 1944 Pensacola Florida) was a voice actor for Warner Bros Beaky Buzzard is an animated Cartoon character in the Warner Bros The Bashful Buzzard is a 1945 7-minute animated cartoon directed by Robert Clampett. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Freberg also provided the voice of Sam, the orange cat paired with Sylvester in the Oscar-winning Mouse And Garden (1960). He voiced Cage E. Coyote, father of Wile E. Coyote, in the 2000 short "Little Go Beep".

Films

Freberg made his movie debut as an on-screen actor in the comedy Callaway Went Thataway (1951), a satirical spoof on the marketing of Western stars (apparently inspired by the TV success of Hopalong Cassidy). Hopalong Cassidy is a Cowboy -hero created in 1904 by Clarence E When Freberg co-starred with Mala Powers in Geraldine (1953), his character Billy Weber, a sobbing singer, was his parody of vocalist Johnnie Ray. Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers ( December 20 1931 &ndash June 11 2007) was an American Film Actress. John Alvin Ray ( January 10 1927 &ndash February 24 1990) was an American Singer, Songwriter, and In 1963, Freberg appeared as the Deputy Sheriff in the mega-comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is a 1963 American Comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350000 His on-screen television roles included The Girl from U. N. C. L. E. (1967) and The Monkees (1966). In 1996, he portrayed the continuing character of Mr. Parkin on Roseanne.

Capitol Records

Freberg began making satirical recordings for Capitol Records, beginning with "John and Marsha" and "Ragtime Dan," recorded on February 10, 1951. Capitol Records is a major United States -based Record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood California and New York City as Events 1355 - The St Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January [4] He scored a huge success with "John and Marsha," released 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. A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject In a 1954 follow-up, he used pedal steel guitarist Speedy West to parody the 1953 Ferlin Husky country hit, "A Dear John Letter," as "A Dear John and Marsha Letter" (Capitol 2677). The pedal steel guitar is a type of Electric guitar that uses a metal slide to stop the strings rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar Wesley Webb "Speedy" West ( January 25, 1924 – November 15, 2003) was an American Pedal steel guitarist Ferlin Husky (born December 3 1925 in Flat River Missouri) is an American singer who has become well-known as a country - pop

With Daws Butler and June Foray, he produced his 1951 Dragnet parody, "St. George and the Dragonet. June Foray (born September 18, 1917) is an American Voice actress who has worked for most of the studios which produced Animated films Dragnet, aka LA Dragnet (new title in USA is a long-running radio and television Police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated " St George and the Dragonet " is a short radio satire created by Stan Freberg in 1953 for use on the Stan Freberg Show. " The latter recording was a #1 hit for four weeks in late 1953; on the record's B-side "Little Blue Riding Hood," the title character is arrested for smuggling goodies. After "I've Got You Under My Skin" (1952), he followed with more popular musical satires, including "Sh-Boom" (1954), "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (1955), and "The Great Pretender" (1956). " I've Got You Under My Skin " is a song written by Cole Porter. " Sh-Boom " (sometimes referred to as " Life Could Be a Dream " is widely considered to be the first popular Doo-Wop song " The Yellow Rose of Texas " is a traditional folk song which has long been popular in the United States and is considered an unofficial state song of Texas " The Great Pretender " is a popular song recorded by The Platters and released as a single on November 3, 1955. He spoofed Elvis Presley in 1956 with his own version of Elvis' first gold record, "Heartbreak Hotel", in which the echo chamber goes out of control. When used literally the term echo chamber refers to a hollow enclosure used to produce echoing sounds usually for recording purposes (In his spoof, Freberg's Elvis rips his jeans during his performance, a problem the real Elvis had with jumpsuits when performing in the early 1970s. )

Another hit to get the Freberg treatment was Johnnie Ray's weepy "Cry", which Freberg rendered as "Try" ("You too can be unhappy. John Alvin Ray ( January 10 1927 &ndash February 24 1990) was an American Singer, Songwriter, and . . if you try!"), exaggerating Ray's histrionic vocal style. Ray was furious, until he realized the success of Freberg's 1952 parody was helping sales and airplay of his own record. Airplay (noun The broadcasting of an audio (eg a piece of music or audiovisual recording on the air over radio or television

Freberg's "Banana Boat (Day-O)" satirized a song made popular by Harry Belafonte. For the song by Harry Belafonte, see the Banana Boat Song. A banana boat is also a long dish used for serving a Banana split Harold George Belafonte Jr (born March 1 1927 is an American musician actor and Social activist. In Freberg's version, the lead singer is forced to run down the hall and close the door after him to muffle the sound of his "Day-O!" so the beatnik-styled bongo drummer can concentrate on making the record. When he gets to the lyric about "hiding in the ripe banana / lies the deadly black taranch-la," the drummer protests, "I don't dig spiders, man. "

He also used the beatnik-musician theme in a parody of "The Great Pretender," the hit by The Platters, who, like Belafonte and Welk, were not pleased. The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early Rock and roll era This musician was a pianist, an Erroll Garner devotee who rebels against playing a single-note accompaniment. Erroll Louis Garner ( June 15 1921 &ndash January 2 1977) was an American Jazz Pianist and Composer He retorts, "I'm not playing that 'pling-pling-pling jazz'!" But Freberg is adamant about the pianist sticking to The Platters' style: "You play 'that pling-pling-pling jazz'--or you don't get paid tonight!" The pianist relents--sort of.

Freberg's musical parodies were a byproduct of his collaborations with Billy May and his Capitol Records producer Ken Nelson. William E May, better known as Billy May ( 10 November, 1916 – 22 January, 2004) was an American Composer, With his 1957 spoof of TV "champagne music" master Lawrence Welk, "Wun'erful! Wun'erful!", Freberg had a true parody partner with May, a veteran big band musician and jazz arranger. Lawrence Welk ( March 11, 1903 &ndash May 17, 1992) was a Musician, Accordionist Bandleader, and Television A big band is a type of Musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the Swing Era from the early 1930s until the late Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States To replicate Welk's syrupy sound, May and some of Hollywood's finest studio musicians and vocalists worked to clone Welk's musical mediocrity, right down to bad notes and timing mistakes. Session musicians are musicians available for hire as opposed to musicians who are either permanent members of a musical outfit or who have acquired fame in their own right Billy Liebert, a first-rate accordionist, copied Welk's accordion playing. The accordion is a portable box-shaped Musical instrument of the hand-held Bellows -driven free-reed aerophone family sometimes referred to as a Squeezebox Welk denied he had ever said, "Wunnerful, Wunnerful!", yet it became the title of Welk's autobiography (Prentice Hall, 1971). In his parody record, the orchestra is overwhelmed by the bubble machine and eventually floats out to sea.

Freberg also tackled political issues of the day. On his radio show, an extended sketch paralleled the Cold War brinkmanship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union by portraying an ever-escalating public relations battle between the El Sodom and the Rancho Gomorrah, two casinos in the city of Los Varoces (Spanish for "The Greedy Ones" -- a thinly-disguised Las Vegas). Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the Brinkmanship is the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the verge of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Public relations (PR is the practice of managing the flow of Information between an Organization and its Publics Public relations - often referred A casino is in the modern sense of the word a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of Gambling activities Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally The sketch ends with the ultimate tourist attraction, the Hydrogen Bomb, which turns Los Varoces into a barren, vast wasteland. A tourist attraction is a place of interest where Tourists visit typically for its inherent or exhibited cultural value historical significance natural or built beauty or The Teller–Ulam design is a Nuclear weapon design which is used in Megaton -range Thermonuclear weapons and is more colloquially referred to as "the The Wasteland Speech was given by Federal Communications Commission (FCC chairman Newton N Network pressure forced Freberg to remove the reference to the hydrogen bomb and destroy the two cities with an earthquake instead. An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth 's crust that creates Seismic waves Earthquakes are recorded with a Seismometer The version of "Incident at Los Varoces" released later on Capitol Records contains the original ending. [5]

On two occasions, Capitol balked at releasing Freberg's creations. "That's Right, Arthur" was a barbed parody of controversial 1950s radio-TV personality Arthur Godfrey, who expected his stable of performers, known as "Little Godfreys," to endlessly toady to him. Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey ( August 31 1903 &ndash March 16 1983) was an American Radio and Television broadcaster The dialogue included Freberg's "Godfrey" monologue, punctuated by Daws Butler, imitating Godfrey announcer Tony Marvin, repeatedly interjecting, "That's right, Arthur," between Godfrey's comments. Daws Butler ( Charles Dawson Butler; November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988) was a Voice actor born in Toledo, [6] Capitol feared Godfrey might take legal action. In law a lawsuit is a civil action brought before a Court in which the party commencing the action the Plaintiff, seeks a legal or equitable remedy Capitol also rejected the equally acerbic "Most of the Town," a spoof on Ed Sullivan. Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan ( September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American Entertainment Writer Both eventually surfaced on a box-set Freberg retrospective issued by Rhino Records. A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is a compilation of various musical recordings Films Television programs or other collection Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty Record label and production company owned by Warner Music Group.

Freberg continued to skewer the advertising industry after the demise of his show, producing and recording "Green Chri$tma$" in 1958 (again with Butler), a scathing indictment of the overcommercialization of the holiday. Green Chri$tma$ is a piece of audio theater written and performed by Stan Freberg and Daws Butler and released by Capitol Records in Freberg, the son of a church minister and religious himself, made sure to soberly point out "whose birthday we're celebrating" on that record. Released originally on 45-rpm discs, the satire ended abruptly with a rendition of "Jingle Bells" punctuated by cash register sounds when reissued by Capitol on LP and CD. Freberg also revisited the Dragnet theme, with "Christmas Dragnet", in which the straight-laced detective convinces a character named "Grudge" that Santa Claus really exists. Daws Butler does several voices on that record.

Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Volume One: The Early Years (1961) combined dialogue and song in a musical theater format. Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America Volume One The Early Years (SFPTUSA Vol The original album musical, released on Capitol, parodies the history of the United States from 1492 until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. An album musical is a type of recording that sounds like an original cast album but is created specifically for the recording medium and is complete in itself rather than being In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots"

Freberg parodied both large and small aspects of history. For instance, in the Colonial era, it was common to use the long s, which resembles a lowercase f, in the middle of words; thus, as Ben Franklin is reading the Declaration of Independence, he questions the passage, "Life, liberty, and the purfuit of happineff???" He also takes the time to skewer political extremism, as his Franklin talks about "signing a few harmless documents, forgetting all about it, and years later finding oneself in front of a committee. The long, medial or descending s ( ſ) is a form of the minuscule letter ' S ' formerly used where 's' occurred in the middle This article is about declarations of independence in general "

The album also featured the following exchange, where Freberg's Christopher Columbus is "discovered on beach here" by a Native American played by Marvin Miller. Christopher Columbus (1451 &ndash May 20 1506 was an Italian Navigator, colonizer For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. Marvin Miller, whose real name is Marvin Mueller ( July 18, 1913 - February 8, 1985) was a movie and Skeptical of the Natives' diet of corn and "other organically grown vegetables," Columbus wants to open "America's first Italian restaurant" and needs to cash a check to get started:

Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America, Volume Two was planned for a release during America's Bicentennial in 1976 but did not emerge until 1996. [7]

Freberg's early parodies revealed his obvious love of jazz. His portrayals of jazz musicians were usually stereotypical "beatnik" types, but jazz was always portrayed as preferable to pop, calypso, and particularly the then-new form of music, rock and roll. Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African He whopped doo-wop in his version of "Sh-Boom" and lampooned Elvis Presley with an echo/reverb rendition of "Heartbreak Hotel". " Sh-Boom " (sometimes referred to as " Life Could Be a Dream " is widely considered to be the first popular Doo-Wop song " Heartbreak Hotel " is a Rock and roll song performed by Elvis Presley, with Bill Black ( bass) Scotty Moore (

Radio

The popularity of Freberg's recordings landed him his own program, the situation comedy That's Rich (1954). Freberg portrayed the bumbling but cynical Richard E. Wilk, a resident of Hope Springs, where he worked for B. B. Hackett's Consolidated Paper Products Company. Freberg suggested the addition of dream sequences, which made it possible for him to perform his more popular Capitol Records satires before a live studio audience. The CBS series aired from January 8 to September 23, 1954. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar)

The Stan Freberg Show was a 1957 replacement for Jack Benny on CBS radio. The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly Radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957 from July 14 The satirical show, which featured elaborate production, included most of the team he used on his Capitol recordings, including June Foray, Peter Leeds, and Daws Butler. Billy May conducted and arranged the orchestra. The Jud Conlon Singers, who also appeared on Freberg recordings, were also regulars, as was singer Peggy Taylor, who had participated in his "Wun'erful, Wun'erful!" record.

The show failed to attract a sponsor after Freberg decided he did not want to be associated with the tobacco companies who had sponsored Benny. In lieu of actual commercials, Freberg mocked advertising by touting such products as "Puffed Grass" ("It's good for Bossie, it's good for me and you!"), "Food" ("Put some food in your tummy-tum-tum!"), and himself ("Stan Freberg — the foaming comedian! Bobba bobba bom bom bom" — a parody of the well-known Ajax cleanser commercial). Ajax cleanser (or Ajax brand cleanser with bleach) is a powdered household and industrial cleaner introduced by Colgate-Palmolive in 1947

The lack of sponsorship was not the only issue. Freberg frequently complained of radio network interference. A radio network is a network system which distributes programming to multiple stations simultaneously or slightly delayed for the purpose of extending total Another sketch from the CBS show, "Elderly Man River," anticipated the Political Correctness movement by decades. Political correctness (adjectivally politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to Language, ideas policies or behavior 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. " Tweedly objects first to the word "old," "which some of our more elderly citizens find distasteful. " As a result, the song's lyrics are progressively and painfully distorted, as Freberg struggles to turn the classic song into a form which Tweedly will find acceptable "to the tiny tots" listening at home: "He don't, er, doesn't plant 'taters, er, potatoes. . . he doesn't pick cotton, er, cotting. . . and them-these-those that plants them are soon forgotting," a lyric of which Freberg is particularly proud. 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"), furnishing the moral and the punchline of the sketch at once. The performance skewered political correctness about 30 years before the term even existed. But all of these factors forced the cancellation of the show after a run of only 15 episodes.

After the radio show, he recorded an album in a format similar to his radio show. This album is most famous for a bit in which, through the magic of sound effects, Freberg drained Lake Michigan and refilled it with hot chocolate, whipped cream, and a cherry flown in on a cable from a helicopter, saying, "Let's see them do that on television!" That bit became a commercial for advertising on radio. For the album by The Jam see Sound Affects. Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced Sounds Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. Hot chocolate (also known as hot cocoa, drinking chocolate or just cocoa) is a heated Beverage that typically consists of Cream with 30% or more fat can be turned into whipped cream by mixing it with air

Television

Freberg made television guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and other TV variety shows, usually with Orville, his puppet from outer space. The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television Variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, Outer space, often simply called space, comprises the relatively empty regions of the Universe outside the escape velocities of Celestial bodies. He reached through the bottom of Orville's flying saucer to control the puppet's movements and turned away from the camera when he delivered Orville's lines. Flying saucer is the name given to a type of Unidentified flying object (UFO with a disc- or Saucer -shaped body usually described as silver or metallic A professional Video camera (often called a television camera even though the use has spread is a high-end device for recording electronic moving images (as opposed Freberg garnered big laughs when he made occasional talk show appearances, but his big splash on television was his own ABC special: Stan Freberg Presents: The Chun King Chow Mein Hour: Salute to the Chinese New Year (February 1962). The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network.

When Freberg introduced satire to the field of advertising, he revolutionized the industry, influencing staid ad agencies to imitate Freberg by injecting humor into their previously dead-serious commercials. Freberg's long list of successful ad campaigns includes:

Today, these advertisements are considered classics by many critics, and though Bob & Ray had pioneered intentionally comic advertisements (stemming from a hugely successful campaign for Piels beer), Stan Freberg is usually credited as being the first person to introduce humor into television advertising with memorable campaigns. Bob Elliott (born 1923 and Ray Goulding (1922–1990 were an American comedy team whose career spanned five decades Freberg felt a truly funny commercial would cause consumers to request a product, as was the case with his elaborate ad campaign which prompted stores to stock Salada Tea. The owner of Jeno's Pizza Rolls had to pay off a bet over the success of a Freberg ad campaign by pulling Freberg in a rickshaw on Hollywood's La Cienega Boulevard. Rickshaws (or rickshas) are a mode of Human-powered transport: a runner draws a two-wheeled Cart which seats one or two persons Freberg won 21 Clio awards for his commercials. CLIO is the Cryogenic Laser Interferometer Observatory, a prototype detector for gravitational waves [8] Many of those spots were included in the Freberg four-CD box set, Tip of the Freberg. A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is a compilation of various musical recordings Films Television programs or other collection

Later work

Following his success in comedy records and television, Freberg has often been invited to appear as a featured guest at various events. Each time has been memorable, such as his skit at the 1979 Science Fiction Awards, again playing straight man to Orville in his UFO. He innocently asks why there is a hole in the end of the spacecraft, only to be told, "That's where the swamp gas comes out. "

In his autobiography It Only Hurts When I Laugh, Freberg recounts much of his life and early career, including his encounters with such show business legends as Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan, and the struggles he endured to get his material on the air. Showbiz redirects here For other uses see Showbiz (disambiguation. Mendel "Milton Berle" Berlinger ( July 12, 1908 &ndash March 27, 2002) was an Emmy -winning American Comedian Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12 1915 &ndash May 14 1998 was an American singer and actor Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan ( September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American Entertainment Writer

Freberg was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995. History The National Radio Hall of Fame and Museum, located in the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago Illinois, is a Museum dedicated From 1995 until October 6, 2006, Freberg hosted When Radio Was, a syndicated anthology of vintage radio shows. Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. When Radio Was is a syndicated radio program that re-airs Old-time radio programs In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through The release of the 1996 Rhino CD The United States of America Volume 1 (the Early Years) and Volume 2 (the Middle Years) suggests a possible third volume. This set includes some parts written but cut because they would not fit on a record album.

Freberg appeared on "Weird Al" Yankovic's The Weird Al Show, playing both the J. Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (ˈjæŋkəvɪk born October 23 1959 is a Grammy Award winning American singer Musician, actor satirist The Weird Al Show is a short-lived Television show starring "Weird Al" Yankovic. B. Toppersmith character and the voice of the puppet Papa Boolie. His son, Donavan Freberg, played the voice of the puppet Baby Boolie. Donavan Freberg, sometimes credited as Donovan Freberg (born April 6, 1971 in Los Angeles, California, U Yankovic has many times acknowledged Freberg as his greatest influence. [9] Freberg is among the commentators in the special features on the multiple-volume DVD sets of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection and narrates the documentary "Irreverent Imagination" on Volume 1. DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is The Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a yearly series of six four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Bros

Legacy in popular culture

Discography

References

  1. ^ Pipes, Rusty. "An audience with Stan Freberg," Cosmik Debris
  2. ^ Freberg, Stan. It Only Hurts When I Laugh. Times Books, 1988.
  3. ^ IMDb
  4. ^ POV
  5. ^ Bevilacqua, Joe. "The Stan Freberg Show"
  6. ^ Arthur Godfrey satire
  7. ^ Stan Freberg Discography
  8. ^ Award to be Presented to Freberg at the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards (June 22, 2006)
  9. ^ Yahoo! Music: Weird Al Yankovic Biography

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