I linked to a poor quality video of this a few years ago but someone has uploaded a much better copy to YouTube so I'm a'gonna link again. These are three commercials for Bosco Chocolate Syrup, a concoction that my friend Johanna, back when I was eight, used to drink right out of the jar without bothering to mix it into milk. Last I heard, Johanna was just coming down from the sugar rush.
The little rabbit in all three was voiced by a man I discuss here often, the late Daws Butler…and Daws may have had a hand in the writing of these, as well. I recall they were among his favorites of the nineteen million commercials he did during his wonderful career. As I mentioned the first time I featured these (and as the fellow who put the better copies on YouTube notes), the rabbit with the deep voice is not, as one might think upon first listen, Thurl Ravenscroft. Sounds a lot like him but isn't. I don't know who it is…most likely some studio singer whose name I never heard. The other rabbit's voice is, maddeningly, done by someone I probably do know but cannot place.
Daws liked these a lot. I like these a lot. I'll bet you like these a lot…
