Long version of a familiar commercial--and a familiar voice!

[Brad from Georgia]

Check out the Tootsie Pop commerchai here: http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/search/ ... tsie%20Pop and listen carefully to the voice of the, um, cow.....

[Yhtapmys]

Check out the Tootsie Pop commerchai here: http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/search/ ... tsie%20Pop and listen carefully to the voice of the, um, cow.....

Plenty of big names there, Brad. Paul Frees and Paul Winchell. The tag announcer is Herschel Bernardi. I think the kid is Peter Robbins. I don't remember who the turtle is. As for the cow, well, maybe this man knows. Oh, Mister! Mister!

Yhtapmys

[CBSTelevisionCity]

WOW! I remember that long version.
It's been a L-O-N-G time since I've seen it.
I'm not sure who the turtle is either.

Thanks for posting this!
Sincerely, William

[Maxwell]

Mr. Turtle sounds to me like Cliff Arquette (aka Charlie Weaver).

[shimp scrampi]

That is an all-star voice cast! Also, kinda puts another nail in the idea that Frank Nelson didn't do the "yeeesss?" bit for other venues besides the Benny program. He might have claimed that, but it never rung 100% true for me. There seem to be several other examples out there.

BTW, in other Tootsie nostalgia news, they've brought back the "pop drops", for those of us not into stick slobber!

[Yhtapmys]

Mr. Turtle sounds to me like Cliff Arquette (aka Charlie Weaver).

I've been told it's a fellow named Ralph James.

Yhtapmys

[Maxwell]

Mr. Turtle sounds to me like Cliff Arquette (aka Charlie Weaver).

I've been told it's a fellow named Ralph James.

Yhtapmys

Wow! Then Ralph James does a heckuva Cliff Arquette!

[LLeff]

That is an all-star voice cast! Also, kinda puts another nail in the idea that Frank Nelson didn't do the "yeeesss?" bit for other venues besides the Benny program. He might have claimed that, but it never rung 100% true for me. There seem to be several other examples out there.

Well, yes (sustain as much as desired), although I remember this ad from when I was a kid, so it's got to have been done after Jack's passing. So it wasn't like there was much chance that he needed to reserve the character for Jack. I know Frank had also commented that even when I interviewed him in 1984, there was still plenty of call for the character...at the time he was doing a modified version on a cartoon show called The Snorks, and had done the now-to-us-legendary McDonalds series which clearly was the same character, complete with "yessss".