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Voice actor Bob Bergen spotted this. It's a clip from the House of Mouse cartoon show that the Disney studio did from 2001 to 2003 — a cute little number but that's not why I'm linking it your way. It's because it features Jiminy Cricket as voiced by our pal, the late Eddie Carroll. I've written here a lot about Eddie's uncanny Jack Benny impersonation but he did a lot of other things and one was that in 1973, he took over the role of Jiminy following the death of its originator, Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards. That made Eddie, at the time of his death, the longest-running voice of any Disney character, I believe.

It really is a great replica of a voice that can't have been easy to match because it was so natural. As you'll hear though, Eddie did a great job of it…

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