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	Stan Freberg Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stan Freberg was a rock-and-roll satirist in the 50's.
		Stan was born in Pasadena, California in 1926.
		Stan Freberg was among the best at producing parodies of hit songs in the early days of rock-and-roll.
	www.tsimon.com /freberg.htm (508 words)

	CNN.com - John and Marsha and a man of comedy - Aug. 19, 2003
		Stan Freberg's comedy -- from "St. George and the Dragonet" to an Ann Miller soup ad to "The United States of America" -- has attracted legions of fans.
		Stan Freberg was speaking to a group of seminary students when the father of the funny commercial, inventor of the modern comedy album and co-creator of the beloved 1950s kids show "Time for Beany and Cecil" had his audience doubled over in laughter.
		Freberg has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a plaque in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, another in the Radio Hall of Fame and still another in the Animation Hall of Fame.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/19/wkd.stan.freberg.ap/index.html (1248 words)

	Stan Freberg’s United States of America
		A new record from Stan Freberg was an event, and eagerly sought.
		Stan says he was pleasantly surprised by the discovery that "hundreds of schoolteachers across America have been using [the album] as a teaching aid." He admits, "I was amazed at the reception.
		Freberg briefly thought about recording it and releasing an album for the 1976 Bicentennial, but he was too busy then with advertising.
	www.holeintheweb.com /drp/bhd/Stanfreberg2.htm (947 words)

	Radio Hall of Fame - Stan Freberg, Comedian
		In 1954 Freberg starred in the short-lived situation comedy That’s Rich, but it was his 1957 Stan Freberg Show for CBS that made him “the last network radio comedian in America.” Here he demonstrated his satirical nature by poking fun at everything from censorship to advertising to the excesses of Las Vegas.
		When The Stan Freberg Show ended after 15 weeks, Freberg found a new outlet for his humor in advertising, with award-winning campaigns for Sunsweet Prunes, Jeno’s Pizza Rolls, Terminix and many other clients.
		Stan Freberg was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.
	www.radiohof.org /comedy/stanfreberg.html (220 words)

	FIREZINE #6 - Under the Influence of Stan Freberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stan, like other show-business heroes of mine (Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, Orson Welles) could do it all - he wrote the scripts, sang (in fluent imitations of Eartha Kitt, Lawrence Welk and Elvis), and performed dialogue as well as any comic actor of the day.
		Little did Stan imagine that only ten years after "Green Chri$tmas," (and barely seven years after his early LP "The United States of America") The Firesign Theatre would create a brand new album which took audio comedy to an entirely new dimension.
		Maybe what we really owe you, Stan, is a bucket of thanks for giving us lots of laughs in an all-too-Noir decade when we really needed them, for preserving the art of radio beyond its reported demise (so we could use it too), and taking commercials out beyond the Edge.
	www.firezine.net /issue6/fz6_07.htm (269 words)

	The Story of Stan Freberg's Green Chri$tma$ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stan Freberg's Green Chri$tma$ is a holiday staple for generations of Christmas fans, beloved not only for the searing truth of it's message but also for the quality of it's music.
		Freberg's work -- labeled as comedy by some, satire and social commentary by others -- was brilliantly produced and often charted as high as the hits he parodied.
		While Freberg is hailed as visionary for his biting brand of satire skewering everything from pop culture to the history of the United States of America it is Green Chri$tma$ that brings out a funny and sad reminder of how twisted we have allowed Christmas to become.
	www.mymerrychristmas.com /2006/stanfreberg.shtml (598 words)

	Stan Freberg’s Greatest Hits
		Stan was a native Californian who was born in Los Angeles in 1926 and grew up in Pasadena as the son of a Baptist minister.
		Freberg had scored a hit with what was called a "novelty" record – which is what most comedy and oddball records of those days were called.
		But it was Freberg’s parody of Eartha Kitt’s original "C’est Si Bon" – complete with a dead-on version of her purring, throaty vibrato by Stan – that got him back on track, satirizing the hits of the day.
	www.holeintheweb.com /drp/bhd/Stanfreberg1.htm (1062 words)

	Stan Span (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The collection includes Freberg’s savvy spoofs of such 1950s pop hits as "Sh-Boom" and "Heartbreak Hotel," as well as bits from his ’50s CBS radio show and his two fine Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America albums.
		Freberg has found American history as a starting point to skewer contemporary mores, such as his Pilgrim plea for racial tolerance, "Take an Indian to Lunch" from 1961.
		Freberg also had the courage to create anti-McCarthyism comic bits during the ’50s and produce anti-Vietnam PSAs in the early ’70s.
	citypaper.net /articles/091699/mus.stan.shtml (406 words)

	The Best Things in Life Are Freberg
		With regard to the point in the interview where Freberg went into his Pete Puma voice: I can't tell you what bliss it was to hear that unmistakable voice on the other end of the phone and have it hit home that I was speaking to one of the greats.
		Despite the fact that Stan Freberg is currently riding his biggest wave of popularity in 35 years, it is still true that there are no second acts in American life.
		Stan Freberg began his career at the age of 18, during the golden age of Warner Brothers cartoons, doing voices for several characters, including one of Bugs Bunny's best-remembered foils, Pete Puma.
	www.dawneden.com /freberg.html (1686 words)

	Stan Freberg is the Funniest Forgotten Comedian of all Time by Chris Abraham - Because the Medium is the Message
		Freberg continued to skewer the advertising industry after the demise of his show, producing Green Chri$tma$ in 1959 (again with Butler), a scathing indictment of the overcommercialization of the holiday.
		Freberg asserted that a truly funny commercial that did not insult the intelligence of the viewer, and which perhaps revealed a bit more information about the product than the advertiser had in mind, would draw the buying public in droves.
		Freberg recounts much of his life and career, including his encounters with show-biz legends such as Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan and the struggles he endured with radio and TV networks to get his material on the air, in his autobiography It Only Hurts When I Laugh (Times Books, 1988).
	www.chrisabraham.com /2006/04/stan_freberg_is.php (2681 words)

	THE STAN FREBERG SHOW, #1 - 7 - July 2003
		A summer replacement for Jack Benny, the Freberg broadcasts were a wild mix of sketch comedy, social satire, and music, and featured an ensemble of crazy characters supplied by the talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, Peter Leeds, and Freberg himself.
		HE STAN FREBERG SHOW was sustained by CBS and never gained sponsorship, but its 15 week run has since taken on the deserved status of "classic and timeless" humor.
		The voice Freberg uses in both these routines is said to have started as a takeoff on Marlon Brando’s "marble mouth" style of acting.
	www.dawsbutler.com /Freberg1.htm (1432 words)

	Stan Freberg Discography by Warren Debenham
		Stan Freberg as Richard Wilt, with Hans Conreid, Alan Reed, Daws Butler, and Hal March.
		Freberg chats with host Hayes Gordon, sings the Aeroplane Jelly jingle, mentions his wife, does a brief bit of the Abominable Snowman, mentions a forthcoming Broadway show, performs Tele-Vee-Shun, chats with the host a little more and does an advertisement for 3D Radio.
		Freberg's clergy father and "Green Christmas." Freberg's recent commercial for Herb Alpert's LP, "Fandango." Freberg's political commercial vs. the Vietnam war in 1971, and Nixon's dirty tricks vs. it.
	www.cyberonic.net /~atrain/comedy/freberg.htm (4604 words)

	Stan Freberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freberg continued to skewer the advertising industry after the demise of his show, producing Green Chri$tma$ in 1958 (again with Butler), a scathing indictment of the overcommercialization of the holiday.
		Freberg, the son of a church minister and very religious himself, made sure to point out on that novelty record "Whose birthday we're celebrating." Despite his Jewish-sounding last name, Freberg is actually a Baptist of Swedish heritage.
		Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America Volume Two was planned for a release during America's Bicentennial in 1976 but did not emerge until 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stan_Freberg (2102 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Land of the Freberg: The State of Radio Comedy
		Soon, however, Freberg was proving himself the country's finest parodist as the rapidly changing styles of popular music battled for radio airplay in the Fifties.
		Freberg notes that when he announced a hiatus from Stan Freberg Here to work on other projects, he got a call from the Joint Chiefs of Staff office in the Pentagon asking him to say it wasn't so.
		There is slight hope for the future of the novelty song, says Freberg, though it may not appear in the form of a physical single, as he points to the success of one young gentleman who still plies the trade of song parodist and makes a good living at it.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:75013 (2070 words)

	Stan (The Man) Freberg by Gary North
		Freberg in his 1988 autobiography, It Only Hurts When I Laugh, says that in the show's early months, they rehearsed the next evening's show in a parked car.
		Then, in 1961, came his masterpiece, "Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Part 1." I was majoring in history, and I found it brilliant.
		Rhino Records has put together a set of 4 CD's of Freberg's humor, and one of them is entirely devoted to his radio commercials.
	www.lewrockwell.com /north/north182.html (1719 words)

	Cosmik Debris interviews Stan Freberg
		Stan recounts that in a chance meeting on the set of the Monkees' movie Head, even Frank Zappa told him he was "the World's Greatest Freberg Fan." Freebies are everywhere it seems.
		Freberg: I was doing commentaries (drops his voice as if on air) -- Stan Freberg Here -- and I did those for nine years...
		Freberg: Billy May did the arrangement, it was spoof of Rogers and Hammerstein musicals original cast albums...He was always doing wonderful satiric jokes in the music.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-october99/stan_freberg.html (5874 words)

	The Stan Freberg Show - July 2002
		Freberg’s humor is a wild mix of sketch comedy, social satire, and music, supported by an ensemble of crazy character voices most often supplied by the talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, Peter Leeds, and Freberg himself.
		Written by Stan and Daws and performed by them with June Foray, the parody of Jack Webb’s Dragnet was the fastest-selling record in the history of the recording industry, selling over one million copies in less than three weeks, and the first comedy record ever to sell over one million copies.
		Two weeks earlier when Stan announced on the air that "The Stan Freberg Show" would be ending, he asked listeners to write in and tell him what they would like to hear on the last program.
	www.dawsbutler.com /Freberg2.htm (3477 words)

	Stan Freberg
		Stan Freberg was a child of radio and a huge fan of folks like Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Henry Morgan.
		Freberg starred in two network radio shows, both of which also featured his frequent partner, Butler.
		Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, The Early Years.
	www.povonline.com /freberg/Freberg01.htm (513 words)

	Stan Freberg
		Stan was Pete Puma in "Rabbit's Kin" and the Gambling Bug in "Early to Bet" and Junior Bear in all those Three Bears cartoons and so many others.
		Everything Freberg wrote/produced/performed was born out of an intelligent, pragmatic look at the world around us, underscored with an expert command of music and voices, all of it set to a very moral tone.
		Freberg's, in fact, was the last of the breed, lasting fifteen weeks of brilliant satire.
	www.povonline.com /cols/COL051.htm (2376 words)

	Large Print Reviews - The Stan Freberg Show: The First Seven Episodes
		The Stan Freberg Show debuted on the CBS Radio Network in June of 1957.
		The Stan Freberg show was an eclectic mix of music, humor, and the proverbial satirical sketch.
		All told, the first seven episodes of the Stan Freberg show will leave you panting to listen to the last eight episodes, which luckily have already been issued and are available from Radio Spirits - so you don't have to wait for them to come out.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /stanfreberg.html (660 words)

	Stan Freberg \| The A.V. Club
		At a local level, disc jockeys are doing a pretty good job trying to keep the medium alive, and there's a lot of interplay between listeners and hosts of call-in shows that we never had a couple decades ago, at least to the degree we have now.
		He was determined that he would hire Freberg to do some decent commercials for Forest Lawn that had a little element of humor, and I said, "No, thanks very much, but I don't see how...
		No, June and I are the only survivors of the Stan Freberg company of actors, though I've tried to use the actor who is the voice of Garfield.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/22965 (3308 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com \| News \| Stan Freberg
		Freberg's approach combined humor with "a little more truth than the client had in mind." This is the guy who had Ann Miller and dozens of showgirls doing a production number on the top of a giant can of soup.
		There's a pile of previously unreleased goodies from Stan's personal archives alongside a few items that were deemed "too satirical" for release by his timid record company at the time.
		So Stan's version of "Heartbreak Hotel" featured a not very bright lead singer struggling to get through the lyrics while drowning in echo from what sounds like the inside of an airplane hangar.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1999-09-16/sidebar3.html (725 words)

	Stan Freberg - A Salute!
		Stan Freberg was the very last person to have a network radio variety show.
		As Stan narrates, sound effects are used to convince us that Lake Michigan is being drained, then filled with whipped cream and topped with a gigantic cherry.
		Stan's dangerous, horrid idea was that advertising should be at least as enjoyable as the shows surrounding them.
	www.thehutch.com /rabhutch/freberg.htm (906 words)

	Stan Freberg Presents the U.S.A., Volume 2
		Freberg is America's foremost satirist, at least when it comes to funny commercials and even funnier comedy records.
		And I'm not sure which excites me more; that it finally came out or that Stan allowed me to help in small ways — kibitzing, casting, mixing, etc. He sure didn't need me around, but he was nice enough to let me be a part of it, and I thank him for it.
		Stan's hoping to get to it in the next year or two, he says.
	www.povonline.com /cols/COL102.htm (1398 words)

	The Onion's Interview with Stan Freberg: 09-01-99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It was one of the greatest thrills in my life to cast Stan Freberg as a semi-regular in the short-lived Saturday-morning program The Weird Al Show.
		Stan played J.B. Toppersmith, the network tycoon who had ostensibly given me the show.
		The Onion had this interview with Stan Freberg on their website on September 1, 1999.
	www.ritachu.com /jon/altv/news/onion090199.php (3510 words)

	Biography for Stan Freberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the early 1950s Freberg began making a series of satirical records, mostly aimed at the still-new genre of rock and roll.
		Freberg still remains an active force in radio and satire, and as a living inspiration to many modern comics ('Weird Al' Yankovic credits Freberg as the main reason he got into comedy).
		In the waning days of network radio, he produced "The Stan Freberg Show", and also wrote radio and television commercials, including one for Butternut Coffee (in 1959) that was performed by the Omaha Symphony Orchestra.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0292677/bio (583 words)

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