A Happy New Year Salute to the Great Don Messick
From sidekick to superstar, here’s a salute to one of animation’s finest actors with a look at some unusual recordings from his career.
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Animation Anecdotes #322
“Astro preceded Scooby Doo. I had to come up with what I call growl talk. Joe liked things starting with R’s for the dogs especially. Rello, Rorge! I ruv roo, Rorge.”
Animation Anecdotes #306
Author and historian Leonard Maltin recalls, “Like most kids, I would scribble in my books – but where it would say ‘The End’, I would take a crayon and write ‘A Walt Disney Production’.”
Hanna-Barbera’s “Ruff and Reddy in Space” on Record
TV’s first cat-and-dog team tangles with an evil interstellar empire on an LP based on the cartoon that launched the Hanna-Barbera animation empire.
Hanna-Barbera’s “Atom Ant” Records
Atom Ant takes on giant ants from outer space before offering his personal views on diet and fitness for those who over-indulged a bit during the 1964 holiday season. Hanna-Barbara…
New Year’s Party with Bozo
Leave it to our “ol’ pal Bozo the Clown” to do an album with a New Year’s theme as well as Christmas. And like Oprah, Bozo endeavors to “teach us…
Animation Anecdotes #179
Happy the Humbug. Many animators tried to create their own comic strip and some were more successful than others. The character “Happy The Humbug” was first developed in 1940 by…
