[78-L] William "Billy" Costello and other animated short personalities on record

[Rockined1]

That was Joe Venuti--and he was singing Barnacle Bill The S---thead!!!!!


A similar voice sings the last line of Hoagy Carmichael's "Barnacle 
ill the Sailor







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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 12:47 am
Subject: Re: [78-L] William "Billy" Costello and other animated short personalities on record


For what it's worth, the "Popeye" voice predates any actual Popeye cartoons by 
 number of years and on Waring's records, it's done by drummer Poley 
cClintock. A similar voice sings the last line of Hoagy Carmichael's "Barnacle 
ill the Sailor" in 193..still before Costello or anyone else was voicing 
opeye.
Costello also recorded as Red Pepper Sam. Great stuff.
dl
On 1/25/2011 12:34 AM, Tim McCormick wrote:
 A few years ago, I purchased my first William "Billy" Costello 78 from a
 Kurt Nauck auction.  I recently purchased Victor 20146-B, Bolshevik-Fox
 Trot, Waring's Pennsylvanians, and there was the unmistakable Popeye The
 Sailor Man voice again.

 So this got me to thinking, Warner Brother's made dozens of animated shorts
 featuring many famous recording and radio personalities.  So, how many
 animated short personalities were ever featured on 78 recordings?  If anyone
 is interested, I'd love for them to submit an article to In The Groove
 recounting this fascinating interaction between entertainment mediums.  I'd
 also love an article just on William "Billy" Costello especially if anyone
 has a photograph of him.  There is so little known about this amazing,
 though hard to work with talent.  Please send your articles or questions to
 me at Editor at MAPS-ITG.org

 Thanks,
 Tim McCormick, President (and editor)
 Michigan Antique Phonograph Society

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