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Rhino Records Releases Stan Freberg Collection.
Los Angeles-based Rhino
Records has released Tip Of The Freberg, a four CD box
set that also includes a video and a booklet. Stan Freberg is probably
best known to animation fans as the voice of Junyer Bear, Bertie
the mouse, and Pete Puma in various Warner Bros. shorts, as well
as the beaver in Lady And The Tramp, but Freberg, who has
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, has also won many awards for
his comedy records and commercials. This great collection spans
Freberg's entire career, 1950 to 1998, and includes many gems such
as "John and Marsha," "Saint George and the Dragonet"
(with Daws Butler and June Foray), "Green Christmas,"
and the recent "The Conspiraski Theory," a music video
that links Monica Lewinsky, Tara Lipinski, and Uni-bomber Ted Kaczynski
on the basis of their names. One of the CDs features a collection
of never-released radio spots, and the video features his very funny
commercials, including two that are animated. The collection retails
for US$59.98.
Rhino Releases Go Simpsonic With The Simpsons. On
November 2, 1999 Rhino
Records will release Go Simpsonic With The Simpsons,
musical selections from the often very musical The Simpsons.
Consisting of more than 50 tracks of songs, themes, and underscore
music, Go Simpsonic not only picks up where its predecessor,
Songs In The Key Of Springfield, left off, but also digs
deep into the first nine seasons, capturing selections that didn't
make it onto the first collection. GO SIMPSONIC also makes available
for the first time four never-before-heard outtakes. Tracks include:
"We Put The Spring In Springfield," "You're Checkin'
In," "Canyonero," "Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel!,"
the entire Simpsoncalifragilisticexpial (Annoyed Grunt)cious Medley,
"Poochie Rap Song," "Mr. Sparkle Theme," "The
Presidents' Song," and a never-before-heard duet between Patty
& Selma, "We Love To Smoke." Go Simpsonic With
The Simpsons will be available beginning November 2 for $16.98
CD/$10.98 cassette.
Speed Racer Dream Car Becomes Real. Every fan who dreamed
of building a car like Speed Racer's Mach 5 will be interested to
know that Speed's ultra-cool car is finally being built by Long
Beach, California-based Focus on Cars, an automotive fabrication
company that caters to the entertainment and advertising industry.
The car will be used to promote a nation-wide safety tour conducted
by The Child Safety Network (CSN) called Child Safety Day At
The Races. The Mach 5 will privately debut at the Specialty
Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show - ITE '99, November 2-5,
1999, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The SEMA Show - ITE is the automotive
aftermarket's largest trade show held yearly at the Las Vegas Convention
Center. SEMA is the top advocacy group representing the $21.3 billion
automotive aftermarket industry. The Mach 5 will include much of
the specialty "equipment" found on the animated Mach 5
including the (dangerous looking) saw blade cutters at the front
of the car, the ability to jump through a special hydraulics system
and even such animatronics as interactive voice responses to steering
wheel mounted buttons. "We are having a lot of fun building
the car," said Ron Kasumi, owner of Focus on Cars. "When
you have a car that is supposed to have 50,000 horse power, fly
through the air, drive under water and jump over great distances,
you have to use a lot of imagination." Total cost to build
the Mach 5 is estimated to be between $175,000 and $200,000. The
Speed Racer television series, an English dubbed version
of a Japanese series about the adventures of a race car driver and
his friends, debuted in the US in 1967.