This man, who looks a lot like some cliche villain from a 1960's movie, was a voice actor known for his deep booming voice. He is best known for the voice of Tony the Tiger. He also provided the voice for the buffalo head at Disneyland's former attraction, The Country Bear's Jamboree. But he is rarely attributed to what may be his best known work. The familiar bass singing you hear in Dr. Seuss' animated classic, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is none other than Thurl Ravencroft.
Many people mistake the voice of this classic song as belonging to Boris Karloff, despite the fact that this voice doesn't really sound like Boris Karloff. This is because Karloff narrates the story as well as provides the voice for the Grinch. But some incompetent bastard forgot to add Thurl to the credits, an error which somehow slipped past editing, and to this day people still attribute this classic performance to Boris.The Grinch song can now be heard as sung by the voice of Tay Zonday.
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If I may be permitted a tiny bit of self-promotion, I posted a thirty-minute mix of Thurl's best Christmas records on my blog last year.
http://shellgrowback.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas-from-thurl-ravenscroft.html
That's a nice cover by Mr. Zonday! Thanks for that.
Thanks for sharing. I'm gonna go ahead and tweet this.
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