[78-L] William "Billy" Costello and other animatedshortpersonalities on record

[Michael Shoshani]

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:02 -0800, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Poley was a mainstay of the Waring group for years...I've seen a picture of 
> him performing with Waring on TV in the 50s.
> 
> I think he was doing  "Popeye" before there was a Popeye!


He was. And one of the oddest things to hear today is a recording the
Waring group made in 1932, about a year before the first Popeye cartoon:
I Say It's Spinach, And To Hell With It.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v_1Qy_BYW0

MS