I mean, right at the outset here, you know you're in for something fabulous. Thurlly, you'll agree that that is one awesome moniker (ha haa haa). As if "Thurl" wasn't sufficiently wonderful, you then get hit w/ tha "RAVENSCROFT" part....comin' off all like some ancestral manse in a Gothic primetime soap opera. Sweeet. So just with that name you've secured your admission in the Awesome Hall o' Fame. But the fellow couldn't stop there...he had to go become ACCOMPLISHED.
Perhaps--just perhaps-- you're acquainted with a li'l known feline by the name of TONY. . .THE TIGER. Yep... this very one--
Welllll, Thurl Ravenscroft was the voice of Tony the tiger (until he died in 2005, that is) And that's not all, mis amigos...
He was the vocalist for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch" even though that song is frequently miscredited to Boris Karloff (awesome in his own right, but NOT the performer of that song). Did you realize that was Tony the Tiger singin' that? Boggles the nog, doesn't it??
Another gem in the Ravenscroft ouevre (that I particularly adore) is that he voiced one of the animal heads that hang in Country Bear Hall (in Frontierland at DisneyWorld---most esteemed venue of The Country Bear Jamboree) namely Buff the Buffalo. Behold--
I SO love me some Country Bear Jamboree. The actual jamboree that is, not that crappy 2002 movie. Although that crappy movie DID have Christopher Walken in it...and something with Christopher Walken in it can't be entirely bad. But uggh... The Country Bear movie is as close to entirely bad as something featuring Mr Walken can be. ...
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