RIP, Dick Beals, the boyish guy with an odd irony or two

During the old raido/cartoons days, many young naturally sounding young kid voices were heard - then there were those that sounded like REAL kids, but weren't One of those was Walter Tetle,y who died in 1975, and who was NOT on GUmby.. The other was Richard aka Dick Beals, who just left us, and who WAS on Gumby, the other Art Clokey production Davey and Goliath, too, as Goliath, but ONE voice he NEVER did was Gumby himself. Any "Dick Beals"-ish voices coming from my little green owner would be in later years came from Norma McMillan, who'd passed in 2001.

Here's the news... For a fellow who ironically never voiced my "Clay Dough:" green owner, Mr.Beals WAS on some episode as little kids---most notably as that "Get off my planet" kid in 1962's "Small Planets", which had a bit of the same canned music from Capitol's "D" Dramatic series as later used so famously in "Night of the Living Dead". And as Davey---or should I say, a la GOliath [Hal Smith], "Da-oi-vey..".. And elsewhere..Mr.Spacely's [Mel Blanc's] spoilt kid Arthur on the "Jetsons" [both 1962 and 1985-88 verisons], WB's Ralph Phillips character in 1954's "From A to ZZZ" [to teacher Mareion Richman]..Ken Snyder/Pantomime Pictures's 1963 "Funny Co.", AND m ost famously, TV commercials/Miles Labatroies/Alka Selter's "Pliop! Plop! Fixz FIzz, Oh what a relifer it is" crooning.. "Speedy Alka Seltzer".

Like everybody else in cartoons, [marvin Miller, Billy DeWolfe, Janet Wlaod, June Foray, Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson,Saws Butler, and his rival Walter Tetlley] he'd started or at least had a huge backgorund in radio. Charles Hillinger, freelance wqriter, in L.A..Times, note din 1992 that the orig8inal radio version of Jack Webb's [1920-1982] landmark hit "Dragnet" was a role for Dick B., and his birthdate was 3/16/27 in Detroit. [3#/16/57 was the time that Gumby appeared..yet he was ironically NEVER Gumby.:) Art Clokey and then Dal McKennon played me.]

He'd comment that it was quite lucky that a young looking, and young sounding guy like him camw along, quite an advantage.."an adult with a child's voice.....and NO welfae workers, either"[to Charles Hillinger in article above.]

He was also in "Frankenstein Jr.", a 1967 H-B show with Ted Cassidy [d.1978, "The Addams Fmaily] as Frankenstein, paired with "The Impossibles"[Hal Smith, Marvin Miller & Pau Frees].

He'd been a cheerleader, announcer, and others in sports games,too.

And NO, her probaly was not related to a certai "Flashdancer"  named Jennifer. Or to fellow character actor John Beal.

The Siege of Boonesboro

Originally Broadcast circa 1966-67.

Produced, Written, and Directed by:
ART CLOKEY
PETER KLEINOW
RAYMOND PECK

Ptotography by
RAYMOND PECK

       CAST
Gumby/NORMA MacMILLAN
Pokey/Everyone else/DAL McKENNON

Music
HANS CONZELMANN, JOHNNIE HOLLIDAY, GUENTHER M.KAUER, DELLE HAENSCH, GERHARD TREDE, and
DOUGLAS M.LACKEY, (and IB GLINDEMANN vis-a-vis DAN KIRSTEN and ERIK MARKMAN for other cues??)

PLOT: Gumby and Pokey as Frontier heroes?

Happy New Year to this blog..third anniversary..
At the time of this show was the mid-xisties, when there was a major #1 song by the Chicago based group The Buckinghams, "Kind of a Drag", with some hornswith an ironically'upbeat Sunshine Pop sound (the Gumby theme by now which inspriried this blog's title(!!) had a similiar song without horns). While the song itself has NOTHING to do with Gumby, there IS a big drag here. Like Walt Disney, Art Clokey liked to explore history on the Davey Crockett/Daniel Boone line, as with the Pilgrims and Native Americans, and this takes a drag twist, sort of. When we start, it's different than other American history themed episodes. Normally, our boys would melt into a book ["Gumby for President", "Son of Liberty", etc. just among the History related ones, not to mention "How Not To Trap Lions" and "Stuck On Books" with no American History tehemd]. But here we start out accopanied by a banjo music bed, with Mr.Boone, explaining to Gumby and Pokey about the title siege. They tend go to the fort where our story takes place.

In a second, Indians go shoot in the fort.. Gumby and Pokey and Daniel Boone [whose TV show also had Dal McKennon as a costar to Fess "Davy Crockett's" Parker---RIP for the last five or so years, btw to Parker and for the last 2 to McKennon] then agree to drag up the people in the fort and make up ectra dummies.

As a result, the indians think that they are outnumbered and we get a victory for all, and again a  neat banjo plug stock-library production music bed (possibly Dan Kirsten in both the John Seely and Ole Georg regimes of John Seely Associates/Media Music, given the openings and this one's similiary to "Gold Rush Gumby's" use of GM-592 "Western Saloon", [for a long time used at Disneyland in guess where-"Frontierland"-Anaheim Park], which IS by Kirsten vis-a-vis Ib Glindemann ["The Night of the Living Dead",1969].
Gumby also does a somewhat garbled final line:"It just shows that you don't have to run when you know the right tricks to peek..." Anyone who has seen this one...was the line..? The short just fades out.

Music is the same, basically unidentifiable..and any credits I suggest should be TAKEN AS Educsated guesses..

The giggles on a frontier gal's face at the silly costumes in the fort mezzanine/catwalk is price.

There's a Queensboro and a Triboro bridge in New York.,..maybe somewhere there is a Boonesboro bridge, too.

Current Google Page

Not the best, but a good start, a Gumby themed 55th.anniversary Google page.

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww

THE NEW TOON SNOOT BLOG

First, trying to adjust to this NEW FANGLED Blogger posting entry form...these young whippersnapper..when I was their age..ahem! Anyhow, as I'm known to be one of many internet fans of old cartoons from the 1930s to the 1960s and posting often, it has to happen but mine, and esxcuse the "elitist" title :-), is MY entry..in this, and it has the same style as this only I take a look at stuff like television cartoon specials, reissue prints and such..yeah, 10,000,000 blogs have this but in my own patented way, I will
try to in additon to my huge talent for palindrome, use mine for odd looks at various aspects, including the screen crfedits of many cartoons, including the television ones, before 1970..

So anyway..here is the link..here I MAY change the space to Pokey/blogpsot//more to come including blogs and OUTSIDE pages..yhes, I am expanding as a page posting icon..humnbly..hangs Pokey pony head smiling humbly..

The Moon Boggles

THE MOON BOGGLES

Vocies:
DAL McKENNON, ?


1967.

Music:
CONZELMMANN and HAENSCH, D.M.LACKEY/G.KAUER

The more that a television frnachise gets more popular, the more a spinoff seems to be done or is done. Consider Pokey solo efforts, and this one, as the seal-like critters of the title did a few other episode,s and crossing over with a "Bela Lugosi" like diabolical scietnist, Dr.Zvegee [not seen in this episode], You might get the feeling that this one's done to promote hte "Boggles."[More recent: "Friends" into "Joey". That is so not happening.]

At the local Zoo, Gumby and Pokery are summoned by the recurring zookeeper seen in so many of these episodes, and have to catch the sea lion like Moon Boggles, who escaped form their zoo cage, with the freezing kind of Midas Touch--everything that they touch winds up in the deep freeze. Pokey's trying to catch time, but [to the tune of orchestrated chase cue with violins], with the net aorund a "Moon-Boggle", gets a free ride, a real drag. Gumby then hangs on, and BOTH get the freezing touch.

Seque to Gumby and Pokey at home, and the zookeeper pass to Gumby, to Pokey--"they were only catching some fresh air, that's why they got out". A real Boone Doggle I say. [You know one of the "Boggles" is a girl due to the ribbon.]

Excellent tinkling eerie stock music used in some other later 1960s Gumbys ["Dragon Daffy","Taile Tale","Grab Grabber Gumby" aka "A Clockwork Gumby", similiar to Bill Loose's eerie Ghost cues ghostwritten by light orchestral music legend [and composer of the famed "Holiday for Strings"] David Rose (Yowp's Blog), with gossamer, tinkly stylistic instruments, but clearly froma different music service, and yet unpegged down, is used during the open scene of the Moon Boggles and followed y Pokey. The chase music is similiar to composer Jack Shaindlin'sa familiar Augie/Snooper and Blab/Quick Draw "Mad Rushes" but are different cues. They're also used in other late 60s "Gumby's" ["Goo for Pokey" and "The Golden Gosling"].

The Moon Boggles crossed over with "Dr.Zveege" in "Hot Ice" [with the made doctor debuting in "Prickle's Problem" and also appearing without the "'Boggles" in
"Piano Rolling Blues".]

The Gumby League

THE GUMBY LEAGUE
[1967]
A CLOKEY PRODUCTION
Creator-Porudcer:
ART CLOKEY

Writers-Directors
ART CLOKEY
PETE KLEINOW
RAYMOND PECK


Cast
Gumby/Goo/NORMA MacMILLAN
Pokey/Prickle/Others/DAL McKENNON[?]

Music cues still rather hard to identify due to this beign late 60s.

Usually, an episode of this original show doesn't use a lot of variaitons on gags, thus, you don't see a lot of the
sports spoofs like other franchises [Porky Pig in Friz Freleng's 1940 "Porky's Baseball Broadcast", Yogi Bear in Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera's 1959 "Rah Rah Bear", and all the
Goofy shorts]. Usually, a more, linear [for lack of a better term] style of narrative was used throughout the series's duration..

However, this is an example...At the 1967 Gumbasia ball game...Gumby, Pokey, Prickle, Goo, professor Kapp, and the Blockheads, taking a leaf from the
classic Disney Goofy Jack Kinney shorts of the 40s and 50s like "Hockey Homicide", etc ., with dopplegangers of them, are on two opposing teams with each other.

Sufficient sporting music is played, including a bed from the open of the show's "The Rodeo King". It's rather repetivie to detial, but just the expected baseball and clay gags. Gumby gets a baseball while Pokey slides. A field set up for this is the background for this..

Prof.Kapp, Prickle, and Goo are in tuis..though not Nopey, Dr.Zveegee [would be a manager for the Blockheads], or the Moon Boggles or the others, a concept that WAS reivisted ten years later in 1970s in Hanna-Barbera's low point [one of too many during this and the ensuing decade ahead] "Scooby Doo's All Star Laffalympics", where various allstar HB characters..

BTW Does ANYBODY know the source for at least SOME of these 1967-68 cues? They may have appeared on two of the "S"'s : Selected Sound or Sonoton, but it escapes me.

The gimmick of many "Blockhead characters" recalls on the other side of good, Goofy in many classic 1940s-1950s Disney sports shorts.

RIP, EARL KRESS

Convention/broadcast host. Writer. Voice. Cartoon library music cue researcher. Earl Kress just died today on September 19,2011...he was one of the reason why yours truly, pkey, knew what cues shared with Hannap-Barbera he and Gumby trotted, raced, escaped blocked, and played aorund with Robots too..[along with those still alive like Don Yowp and elsewhere Paul Mandell].1951-12011.