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Stan Freberg
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Stanley Victor Freberg (born August 7, 1926 in Los Angeles-April 7, 2015) was a voice actor, comedian, and advertising creative. In 1950, he scored a huge success with his first recording for Capitol Records, John and Marsha, a soap-opera parody that consisted of the title characters (both played by Freberg) repeating each other's names. In a follow-up he used pedal steel guitarist Speedy West to parody the 1953 country hit A Dear John Letter as A Dear John and Marsha Letter. Throughout the 1950s he made a name for himself writing and performing both original songs (Tele-Vee-Shun) and parodies of popular tunes (The Yellow Rose of Texas, Day-O, Heartbreak Hotel). With fellow voice actors Daws Butler and June Foray he produced a medieval parody of Dragnet called St. George and the Dragon-Net. The latter recording was a #1 hit for four weeks in late 1953. Freberg's brilliant, authentic-sounding musical parodies were a byproduct of his collaborations with Billy May and his Capitol Records producer Ken Nelson. His brilliant 1957 spoof of TV "champagne music" master Lawrence Welk, Wun'erful, Wun'erful was a true collaboration with May, a veteran big band musician and jazz arranger (known for his work with Frank Sinatra among others) who loathed Welk's corny style. To replicate that sound, May and some of Hollywood's finest studio musicians and vocalists worked to virtually clone Welk's sound. Billy Liebert, a first-rate accordionist copied Welk's own accordion playing. The humor
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albums
The Very Best Of Stan Freberg
The Capitol Singles Collection
Greatest Hits
The Best Of Stan Freberg "The Capitol Years"
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Stan Freberg Presents: The United States Of America, Volume 1: The Early Years
The Crazy World Of Stan Freberg
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Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time
Stan Freberg Presents The USA
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International Lampoon
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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Seven
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I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
EMI Comedy Classics - The Madness Of Stan Freberg