Thurl Ravenscroft
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Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (February 6, 1914 – May 22, 2005) was an American voice actor and bass singer best known as the booming voice behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades.
He was also the uncredited vocalist for the film "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the classic Christmas television show "Dr. Griinch."
In both the films and the attractions at Disneyland (which were later published at Walt Disney World), Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!Ravenscroft did some voice-over work and singing for Disney.
The best known of these attractions are Haunted Mansion, Mark Twain Riverboat, Pirates of the Caribbean, Disneyland Railroad, and Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room as "Fritz."
His voice acting career began in 1940 and continued until his death in 2005 at the age 91.
Later life and death
In 1946, Ravenscroft married June Seamans, and they had two children. June died of unknown causes in 1999. Ravenscroft semi-retired and did not work in any other studio, but the Tiger's voiced Tony the Tiger throughout 2004 (with limo transportation provided by Kellogg) and was also featured on the Disney "Extinct Attractions Club" website this year. On May 22, 2005, he died in his home from prostate cancer and was buried at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.
"Behind every great man is an even bigger man" in Kellogg's latest issue of the advertising industry journal Advertising Age, June 6, 2005. Lee Marshall replaced Tony the Tiger in the Kellogg's commercials after his death, but some commercials continue to reuse clips of Ravenscroft.
Early life and career
Ravenscroft moved from Norfolk, Nebraska, to California, where he studied at the Otis Art Institute. He first performed as part of The Mellomen, a singing group. The Mellomen can be heard on several well-known albums of the Big Band Era, including backup for Bing Crosby, Frankie Laine, Spike Jones, Jo Stafford, and Rosemary Clooney. They appeared in a Disney film in 1940, to which they contributed the song "Honest John." This was taken from the film but it can also be seen in the 2009 DVD's supplements. In Pinocchio, Ravenscroft also voiced Monstro the Whale. The Mellomen appeared in other Disney films, including Alice in Wonderland and Lady and the Tramp. In one instance, the group appeared on television in a few episodes of the Disney anthology television series; in another, a canine chorus for Lady and the Tramp, and another as a barbershop quartet reminding Walt Disney of the name of the young newspaper reporter Gallegher.
Ravenscroft has worked with Mel Blanc at Warner Bros. on some of the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes, as well as on radio "driving Jack Benny madness" on The Sportsmen Quartet.
Ravenscroft served as a civilian navigator for the United States Air Transport Command during WWII, spending five years flying courier missions around the north and south Atlantic. Winston Churchill and Bob Hope were among the passengers on board his flights. "I flew Winston Churchill to a conference in Algiers and then escorted Bob Hope to the troops a few times," he told an interviewer. So it was amusing."
Ravenscroft appeared on Rosemary Clooney's "This Ole House," which debuted at No. 1 on the charts. In 1954, both the United States and Britain were in the United Kingdom, as well as Stuart Hamblen's original version of the same song. In South Pacific, one of the top-selling albums of the 1950s, he appeared on the soundtrack as "Stewpot" for Ken Clark. "Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boomerang," the DeCastro Sisters supported on their 1955 top 20 hit, "Boom Boom Boom Boomerang." His distinctive bass can also be heard on 28 of their albums from the 1960s and 1970s, singing with the Johnny Mann Singers. He appeared on Bobby Vee's 1960 Liberty hit song "Devil or Angel." Andy Williams' recording of "The 12 Days of Christmas" includes him as well. Ravenscroft narrated the annual Pageant of the Masters art show at the Laguna Beach, California, Festival of the Arts, in the 1980s and 1990s.
He performed the first songs for two Disney serials featured on The Mickey Mouse Club, Boys of the Western Sea, and The Hardy Boys: The Applegate Treasure.
On the Disneyland soundtrack, Peter Cottontail and other Funny Bunnies performed the "Twitterpatter Song" and "Thumper's Song" on the Disney album.
He performed the songs "The Reluctant Dragon" and "The Loch Ness Monster" on Disneyland's All About Dragons.
Uncle Theodore, the lead vocalist of the singing busts in the cemetery near the end of the ride, was heard on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride as well as the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. In The Story and Song From the Haunted Mansion, he also played Narrator. In the pre-show outside the museum, Ravenscroft can be seen as the voice of Fritz, the Animatronics parrot, as well as the tree-like Tangaroa tiki god. In the 1990s, he was also the voice of the Disneyland Railroad. The First Mate on The Mark Twain Riverboat and Buff, an American bison head, are among the American bison head's coveted roles at The Country Bear Jamboree.
Later career
"You're a Mean One, Mr.," Ravenscroft's most well-known uncredited work, is as the singer of the song "You're a Mean One." "Griinch" is the word that comes to mind. His name was mistakenly deleted from the credits, leading many to believe that Boris Karloff, the cartoon's narrator, performed the song, while others cited Tennessee Ernie Ford as the song's signature voice. On the United States, the song, which is now credited to Ravenscroft, reached its high point. The Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 32 for the week ending January 2, 2021. Thurl Ravenscroft has officially debuted on the Top 40 as a solo performer thanks to You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.
In the Peanuts animated motion picture Snoopy, Come Home, and I Was a Teenage Brain Surgeon for Spike Jones, Ravenscroft also sang "No Dogs Allowed."
He was Tony the Tiger's uncredited voice for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes for more than 50 years. With the catch, the cereal's booming bass gave the cereal's tiger mascot a voice. "I am a child of the ages" when we were told of the story.
Numerous record labels, including Abbott, Coral, Brunswick, and "X" (a RCA affiliate) have released singles by Ravenscroft, many of which were in duets with little-known female vocalists, in an effort to turn the bass-voiced veteran into a pop star. These attempts were commercially ineffective, though often informative. On the front of Johnny Cymbal's "Mr. Bass Man," he was also teamed up with the Andrews Sisters (on the Dot Records album The Andrews Sisters Present). The Mellomen also performed some doo-wop under the name Big John & the Buzzards, a term that was apparently given to them by Mitch Miller, who was apparently hating rock-and-roll.
He appeared on several religious television shows such as The Hour of Power. He recorded a collection of hymns called Great Hymns in Story and Song in 1970, with each prefaced with the tales of how each hymn came to be, as well as the background vocals and instrumentals performed and conducted by Ralph Carmichael.
He said his lifelong ambition was to tape the entire Bible on tape, but James Earl Jones "beat him out." Ravenscroft provided the voice for Darth Vader, who was featured in Jones' episode of Donny & Marie, a TV variety series.