“Puddy Tats here. . . Puddy Tats There!”
Helen Kane and Danny Kaye sing “I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat” – and Mel Blanc sings a sequel tune!
Helen Kane and Danny Kaye sing “I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat” – and Mel Blanc sings a sequel tune!
When the “suits” at Capitol Records saw the sales of Mel Blanc’s “I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat” in the United Kingdom, they must have thought “it’ll sell like hotcakes here!”. They were right!
To what must have been the great surprise of all concerned, a Bugs Bunny/Tweety record took off–and not just with the children’s-record audience.
You can’t blame the people at the Walter Lantz studio for hoping that lightning would strike twice. But it didn’t happen with “The Woody Woodpecker Polka”.
Continuing on in the last few years of the original Warner Bros. Cartoon studio… as seen via these in-house columns in the studio employees magazine, Warner Club News.
In this weeks in-house columns is the acknowledgment of the serious auto accident involving Mel Blanc. Jones, McKimson, DePatie and Freleng were among his first visitors at the hospital.
1959 may not have been a banner year for Looney Tunes, but a question emerges: Was “Beep Beep” the studio’s actual ‘character name’ for The Road Runner?
Mel Blanc would be 110 on Wednesday, so here’s a “Spin” focusing on a little-discussed member of his “stable” who he performed longer on records than in films.
Since the maladjusted mallard was mere albumen and yolk and 81 years ago today, we salute some of his records in a post that’s surely worth more than a million box.
1954 begins and Looney Tunes producer Eddie Selzer welcomes the staff back to resume full production and a Christmas party in his home.