[78-L] Mae Questel

[Thomas Stern]

there is a snippet of an interview on youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jSUbTFs9fY

also noted:
  Betty Boop Meets Dracula - Mae Questel & Bela Lugosi 1930?

  Bajour (Broadway)

  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as the extremely senile, strangely patriotic Aunty Bethany

 United Artists UAS 6721                          LP 1969
 Mrs. Portnoy's Retort [A Mother Strikes Back]
 Mae Questel
 written by Harvey Jacobs & David Martin


COLUMBIA J-256
The Story of SANTA's KEWTEE BEAR
with ALAN REED, narrator and Mae Questel


best wishes, Thomas.



-----Original Message-----
From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Randy Watts
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 7:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Mae Questel


She had an album on Columbia's Harmony subsidiary in 1958 titled ON THE GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP: FAVORITE SONGS FROM CHILDREN'S FILMS.
I haven't heard it in ages, but as I recall they were new recordings.
 
Speaking of Questel, a friend once told me about running across a 1970s interview with her while he was looking for something else
in microfilmed newspapers. He said the interview was largely concerned with her voice-over work in animated cartoons, but at one
point he said she did make the claim that her record of "On the Good Ship Lollipop" sold over a million copies and "saved Decca."
I was not aware that her record sold extraordinarily well or that Decca was in need of salvation at the time. Since we're talking
about her, it's a good time to ask, does anybody have any idea if there's any truth in what she said, or was she suffering from
the kind of career-enhancing "False Memory Syndrome" that sometimes plagues aging performers.
 
Randy 


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From: Darrell Lehman <nickjay49 at gmail.com>
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 2:58 PM
Subject: [78-L] Mae Questel

Anybody know off-hand if she recorded for anybody other than Decca?

thanks, DL etc
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