DumpTV #27 "Happy Birthday Stan Freberg"

This week, Dumpsterpiece Theatre pays tribute to legendary voice actor, & comedian Stan Freberg, who turned 80 on August 7th 2006.
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Comedy

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• stan
• freberg
• geraldine
• birthday
• dumptv
• weekly
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[Snarg3000]

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[dumptv]

Yes! Sign the Petition!! Thanks!

[ACcountryFan]

I loved this video! I've been a Freberg fan for several years and when i was younger i had no idea i was hearing his voice all over Warner Brothers cartoons with Mel Blanc. I also didn't know it was Freberg's voice on those ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANICA commercials with the blonde kid who i learned later was his son, Donavan. You can catch Freberg's voice hosting WHEN RADIO WAS, a retrospective hour program that plays old-time radio shows.

[dumptv]

thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it :)

[ScrappyDoo92]

FRED FLINSTONE!!!

[pornguy2]

Frankly I only watched about 2 minutes of this clip, I was so stunned by the unfair description of Johnny Ray, I had to stop.

I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to Johnny and watching him perform in the 50s.

He was an emotional performer and calling him flamboyant is your view, but to say he was 'goofy' is way over the top.

I think his style was a product of his hearing loss, but I can tell you he was very serious about his craft and his huge successes is proof of his talent.

[oshuhua]

Further note on "Flaming Lips:" on the same DVD set I just mentioned, one of the guest stars is none other than Jim Backus, one of the stars of the same movie "Geraldine" you showed clips from! Groovy coincidence! The four TV specials Spike Jones and the Slickers did were in 1951 and '52, so the song was reasonably current. I have to check the details though. . .hope I have not got the song wrong. Thanks for sharing that!!

[oshuhua]

"Flaming Lips" was a real song, parodied by Freberg here. In "Spike Jones: Legend" the DVD set that came out recently, Spike's wife Helen Grayco sings the song as a Gypsy woman, straight. You must know that Spike is one of Stan's inspirations; he did an homage to Spike in his arrangement of "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise." Best wishes!

[56Packman]

stan's joke was to connect the sponsorship of explorers to the new world with the trite sponsorship of a game show such as "the price is right"

[56Packman]

to get that joke you need a little historical background: TV shows, especially those run in the daytime slot had a single sponsor, the daytime dramas ("mommas stories") were sponsored by soap companies, hence the name "soap operas". The great explorers also had sponsors, but they were members of the royal families of their country, or at least the land baron families that had all of the money and power.

[sandmanVII]

Can anyone explain the "Price is Right" joke in "SF presents: The US of A" during the Columbus scene?

Ferdinanad: Wait a minute! I ask as simple question and I get a question. Why should Spain sponsor you? Why don't you go to Portugal?

Columbus: I did, they bought the Price is Right

That joke's been tormenting 3 generations of my family for decades!

Please help!

[Rick36561]

Alan Reed The voice of Fred Flintstone