Earlier this AM, I posted a link to a Froot Loops commercial and said that I thought it might have been Lucille Bliss doing the voices of the two baby toucans. It isn't. Tim Hollis informs me (and I'm sure he's right) that it was the multi-talented Robie Lester. Well, I said I wasn't sure.
For correcting me, Tim wins our top prize, which is a plug for the book he co-authored with Greg Ehrbar, Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records. This is an excellent volume that will tell you everything you could possibly want to know about the many records released by divisions of the Disney empire, with plenty of insight into how they were made and the folks who performed on them, Robie Lester especially. You can and should order your very own copy from Amazon by clicking here.
Naturally, I owned many of the records covered…but even I was unaware of just how many there were, and of some of the largely-unnoticed treasures in the catalog. Naturally too, there came a stage in my childhood when I thought they were "baby" records and that it was beneath my dignity to listen to such things. In fact, my friend Randy and I decided it would be more fun to break the records than to listen to the records so we used them as targets and lobbed wooden croquet balls at them. You could get a lot of money today on eBay for what we shattered that day. Heck, you could probably get a lot of money on eBay for the croquet balls.