STAN FREBERG
There's little doubt the music industry's top-selling comedy-novelty act of the 1950s was voice actor and jazz fan Stan Freberg of Pasadena, California. After establishing himself in Hollywood's animated film business, his top-selling releases for Capitol Records spanned an entire decade and then some; he fearlessly criticized popular television shows, hit songs of the day (particularly rock and roll), political tomfoolery and a favorite target, Christmas, being highly critical of the modern-day merchants guilty of squeezing consumers of every possible penny during that so-called most wonderful time between Thanksgiving and each New Year. Later, he admitted to joining the other side, the money-mongers who created the ads that subliminally convinced Joe Average ... MORE ››
