Lorenzo Music

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Gerald David "Lorenzo" Music (May 2, 1937 – August 4, 2001) was an American actor, voice actor, writer, producer and musician.

He was best known as the original voice of Jim Davis' comic strip cat Garfield, voicing him on animated specials, the animated series Garfield and Friends, video games and commercials from 1982 to 2001, and as the off-screen voice of Carlton the Doorman on Rhoda from 1974 to 1978.

Early life

Gerald David Music was born on May 2, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York. He was six years old when his family moved to Duluth, Minnesota, for his father's job at one of the shipyards.

He was student at Central High School and then at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Music met his wife Henrietta at the latter, in the Theatre Arts Department. Together, they formed a comedy duo named Gerald and His Hen, who performed together for eight years.

Music changed his first name to Lorenzo for spiritual reasons after he became a member of the international spiritual association Subud.

Personal life

Music was married to composer/writer Henrietta Music; together they had four children.

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Career

During 1968 and 1969, Music became a writer and a regular performer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. His work as a writer on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970 would lead to his first break. Music was co-creator of The Bob Newhart Show with his producer/writer David Davis. The show aired on CBS from 1972 to 1978, and he co-wrote the theme song for the show with his wife Henrietta.

For The Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-off Rhoda, music continued writing. When casting Rhoda, the producers were looking for a voice actor to portray a character that would be heard but never seen Carlton the doorman. When his parents heard Music's sleepy, husky voice, they gave him the opportunity, which made his voice more apparent to a worldwide television audience. The character was well-known enough to warrant a one-off single in 1975 titled "Who Is It?" "The Girl in 510" by the United Artists UA-XW643-X), which has since become a regional hit. The Carlton Your Doorman, a 1980 animated special that received an Emmy Award, was co-produced and co-wrote by music. Although it was a pilot episode, CBS did not pick it up as a series.

Lorenzo and Henrietta were given the opportunity to host a syndicated television variety show of their own in 1976. The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show was produced at a time when television variety shows were scarce, but it didn't last long. Ralph the All-Purpose Animal in the stop-motion animated film Twice Upon a Time in 1983, Music performed the character Ralph the All-Purpose Animal.

Jim Davis' Garfield was America's most popular comic strip in 1982. The strip's compilation books and merchandising were among the best seller lists, and Davis was negotiating to produce an animated television special. Garfield, a fat, lazy, sarcastic, and demanding cat, was the primary protagonist in the strip. Several well-known vocal artists, including Sterling Holloway, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, were auditioned at the audition. Music emerged as Garfield's voice after one audition; "I looked at the room full of [voice] actors," Davis' words; and then in the corner, Lorenzo quietly licking himself." In the Garfield and Friends animated television series that ran from 1988-2001, music will appear in more than 12 television specials. He was last seen in Garfield for an automobile commercial in that year.

For programs such as TaleSpin as Sgt, music voiced characters. In the season 2 episode Little Big Dog and Darkwing Duck, Dunder, The Real Ghostbusters as Peter Venkman and Adventures of the Gummi Bears as Tummi Gummi, Fluppy Dogs as Tummi Gummi, Pound Puppies as Teensy. Music retired from cartoon voice acting in the mid-1990s, following Garfield and Friends, Darkwing Duck, and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears.

Music also did voice-overs for many commercials for prime-time television, such as Larry the Crash Test Dummy in the "You Can Learn a Lot from a Dummy" public safety announcements sponsored by the Department of Transportation and Florida grapefruit juice, a less well-known series of commercials extolling Florida agriculture in comparison to the more popular "Florida orange juice" commercials during the 1980s.

Music frequently offered his time on a suicide hotline, in keeping with his Subud beliefs and emphasis on charity. Musicians reminds us that occasionally a caller will change his voice: "I am bankrupt, my wife went off with another man... Hey, you look just like the cat on television."

Music's voice could be heard on Stan Freberg's Stan Freberg's The United States of America Volume Two album, which was released as a CD by Rhino Records in 1996. As James Madison and Robert E. Lee, music appeared on the album. On an episode of The Drew Carey Show, music also appeared as an intercom announcer.

He was the voice-over for Ore-Ida Potatoes and Fruit and Cream Strawberry Twinkies in the early 1990s. He later worked as the pitchman for Ruggles Ice Cream (a local Orrville, Ohio) later in life.

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