FEATURES Back to Front Page Comic genius Stan Freberg All Hallows Eve with Misfits Resurfaced: Yellow Submarine Sound & Scent in the Newest New Age Over 60 CD Reviews Books, CDROM &: Other Reviews COLUMNS Perspective Closet Philosophy Pigshit OTHER STUFF Cosmik Radio Credits Our Own Websites Interview by Rusty Pipes I did some stuff for Dupont and they said, 'Well, we know about the prunes and ...

A Conversation with Stan Freberg by Joe K. Bevilacqua In my neverending quest to uncover the secrets of great voice acting, Ive thought a lot about the relationship between animation and verbal comedy. As far back as the early days of radio comedy, there has always been a link between the two worlds. Characters that started on radio were often successfully translated to cartoon form. Kenny ...

Stan Freberg Stan Freberg was a rock-and-roll satirist in the 50's. He put together a number of comedy records that were very popular. Stan was born in Pasadena, California in 1926. When he was 11 he worked on stage in his uncle's magic show. Beginning in 1943 he did voice impersonations on Cliffie Stone's radio show. Following World War II Stan did cartoon voices for some of the major animated ...

UNDER THE INFLUENCE Of Stan Freberg I remember Stan Freberg's singles as constant companions during my high school and college years: The Dragnet parodies (which sounded almost exactly like the radio and TV shows in part because Stan hired the same music and musicians the real show used); his masterful send-up of Harry Belafonte's Day-O (which contains a line everybody still repeats - Too ...