Leonard Maltin remembers Stan Freberg. I was present for the "impromptu musicale" he describes and I recall the delight of the audience…and the look of disbelief/joy on Leonard's face that he was playing piano to accompany Stan Freberg.
The New York Times has a nice piece by Douglas Martin, which I came across because of this Tweet…
One quibble: It says Stan's career doing voices for animated cartoons ended in 2011. Just for the sake of accurate history (and to not truncate Stan's amazing longevity in this profession), Freberg was a semi-regular on The Garfield Show for the last few years and did his last recording for us in June of 2014.
He appeared in a number of episodes done for the show's fourth season and his last session was to record an hour-long special we produced after the completion of Season 4. The fourth season and that special have aired all over the world but not yet in this country. I am told Cartoon Network here is planning to run them this October.