The Mel Blanc Show - "The Broken Caruso Record" (01-07-47)

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The Mel Blanc Show - The Broken Caruso Record (01-07-47)

The Broken Caruso Record (Aired January 7, 1947)

In 1936, Mel Blanc joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, which made animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Blanc liked to tell the story about how he got turned down at the Schlesinger studio by music director Norman Spencer, who was in charge of cartoon voices, saying that they had all the voices they needed. Then Spencer died, and sound man Treg Brown took charge of cartoon voices, while Carl Stalling took over as music director. Brown introduced Blanc to animation directors Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, and Frank Tashlin, who loved his voices. The first cartoon Blanc worked on was Picador Porky as the voice of a drunken bull. He took over as Porky Pig's voice in Porky's Duck Hunt, which marked the debut of Daffy Duck, also voiced by Blanc. Blanc soon became noted for voicing a wide variety of cartoon characters from Looney Tunes, adding Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Pepé Le Pew and many others.

 

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January 7, 1947. CBS network. Sponsored by: Colgate Tooth Powder, Halo Shampoo. "The Broken Caruso Record". Bud Hiestand (announcer), Hans Conried, Joe Walker, Joseph Kearns, Mary Jane Croft, Mel Blanc, The Sportsmen, Victor Miller and His Orchestra. 22:58. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.