Tuesday, May 30, 2006

 

Happy Birthday Mel, Wherever You Are?


Today, May 30, is the birthday of the great Mel Blanc. He would been 98 today. Besides cartoon voices, he did radio shows. I remember him from kidhood as the sound of Jack Benny's Maxwell sputtering and wheezing and coughing and as Jacks violin Teacher Professor LeBlanc. But who can forget "Train leaving on track 5 for Anaheim, Azuza and Cuc amonga". He was the mailman on Burns and Allen and the barber on Gildersleeve. Mel died in 1989 from Heart disease.

His most famous stuff was anamation voices though. He was Bugs, Tweety, Porky, Sylvester, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely. For me, the best and most important voice he ever did was, of course, Foghorn Leghorn.
Foghorn Leghorn and Henry Chickenhawk. That's All Folks!

Comments:
Great day, for sure. Mel was certainly a singular talent.

I heard that when he went to work for Hanna/Barbera in the '60's he was contractually forbidden to ever do the voice of Bugs Bunny again.
 
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