Happy Birthday, Stan Freberg

[filkertom]

Eighty and goin' strong.

What's your favorite Freberg bit? I love a lot of his stuff, but it's hard to top "Elderly Man River" for both wickedly slashing satire and gut-busting laughs.

Thanks to Mark Evanier for the heads-up.

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[old_fortissimo]

When there were still cigarette advertisements on television, Lark cigarettes ran some with a jingle that used the William Tell Overture as its tune