STAN FREBERG SHOW Direct from CBS Radio Broadcasts 4 Audio Cassettes Box Set NM

Description: THE STAN FREBERG SHOW 4 Audio Cassettes Box Set in Like New ConditionThe first 7 episodes of his now legendary show. Not only did it feature the writing and voice talents of Stan Freberg, but also June Foray and Daws Butler, two of the most famous voices in cartoons of all-time. Perhaps they are most famous for their voice work on the Rocky & Bullwinkle show. They were featured in most of the skits including Fractured Fairie Tales and others. June Foray was not only the inimitable voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, but all of the witches, Natasha the spy (with Boris), and basically all of the women's voice parts in Rocky & Bullwinkle. Daws Butler is just as famous. Daws Butler the voice behind some of our most beloved cartoon characters. He was the voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss and many more. He worked at Hanna Barbera studios from 1957 till 1988 as well as working for Warner Bros., MGM, Jay Ward and Walter Lantz. He also wrote and performed on the Stan Freberg show and the original live version of Time for Beanie (Einstein and Harpo Marx's favorite show) as well as acting in radio and voicing TV commercials.June Foray - Started doing voices for radio at age 12. Wrote an autobiography entitled "You Grew Up with Me Too?" Voiced Betty Rubble in Hanna-Barbera's 90-second pilot for 'The Flinstones', before being told that the entire voice cast would be re-evaluated for the actual series, and that she was not allowed to re-audition. Foray's relationship with Hanna-Barbara was strained for years, and her work for them was limited until the 1980s. Often referred to as "The First Lady of Cartoon Voices," Foray has lent her skills to such animation icons as Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha Fatale on The Bullwinkle Show, Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Granny, the old woman oblivious to Tweety and Sylvester's ongoing warfare, on The Bugs Bunny Show. Foray also voiced Looney Tunes' Witch Hazel and was the voice of Jokey Smurf on The Smurfs. There are far too many voices she's famous for to list here (hundreds literally) but you can Google them. So anyway, the Stan Freberg radio show was the beginning of large stardom for Stan Freberg, Daws Butler and June Foray among others like Peter Leeds. The pinnacle in the art of radio comedy was the summer of 1957, not during network radio’s heyday but years after its supposed death at the hands of television. Joyous and inventive, hilarious and provocative, THE STAN FREBERG SHOW leaped to the airwaves of the CBS Radio Network on Sunday, June 14, 1957 at 7 p.m.. A summer replacement for Jack Benny, the Freberg broadcasts were a wild mix of sketch comedy, social satire, and music, and featured an ensemble of crazy characters supplied by the talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, Peter Leeds, and Freberg himself. The first show almost did not get on the air. An extended routine entitled "Incident at Los Voraces" was a savage piece of satire which took up nearly two-thirds of the show. It was specifically an attack on the excess of Las Vegas and in general a comment on current social events including the Cold War and nuclear arms race. The original version included references to the Gaza Strip in a chorus girl song and ended with a hydrogen bomb going off. It was perhaps Freberg’s most brilliant work for the entire run of the series and almost got the show canceled before it began. The show had been pretaped in Hollywood and fed to CBS in New York the Friday prior to the broadcast. When network executives heard the show, they flipped, and Freberg and producer Barnum had to stay up all night rewritten the script, re-recorded it on Saturday with a new audience, with the all references to the Gaza Strip removed and an earthquake ending replacing the hydrogen bomb. THE STAN FREBERG SHOW was sustained by CBS and never gained sponsorship, but its 15 week run has since taken on the deserved status of "classic and timeless" humor. In 1958, Capitol Records released two recordings of selected sketches from the broadcasts under the title "The Best of Stan Freberg," which won a Grammy award and was among Capitol’s biggest sellers up to that time. The complete 15 programs have never been released since their original broadcasts. Until now. This Smithsonian collection is the first of two, the first seven broadcasts of THE STAN FREBERG SHOW, heard here for the first time in their glorious entirety.

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