The Many Voices of Mel Blanc

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Many of you know who this is, but some won't. Melvin Jerome Blanc was born in 1908 and lived until 1989. He was a radio personality and did a lot of voice acting. He was known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices" and was probably the best-known and greatest of voice actors. He started working in radio at age 19 and worked up until his death. The voices he is most famous for are Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Tweety, and Sylvester. But he did hundreds of others. He did a parrot on The Jack Benny Show as well as a Maxwell automobile badly in need of a tune-up. This one could be his first voice because he hurried to improvise when the recorded automobile sounds didn't play on cue. Jack Benny liked it and decided to do away with the recording completely. He did such voices as Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons, and Dino and Barney Rubble on The Flintstones. He also originated the voice of Woody the Woodpecker and his laugh. He did Gideon the Cat in Disney's Pinocchio but it was deleted. He was the first voice of Toucan Sam in the Froot Loops commercials. The list goes on and on. His final recording session was for Jetsons: The Movie which came out in 1990. Who's your favorite voice he did? Mine is Pippy Le Pue. The image is courtesy of Adobe Stock.