Of Cannibalism, Eddie Carroll and Mathematics

[shimp scrampi]

Not strictly Benny-related, but over on the "bentrecords" blog, you can catch some excerpts from Eddie Carroll as Jiminy Cricket on a 1963 Disney educational LP - it's great stuff, including a cannibal-related subtraction song. I hadn't realized Eddie Carroll had been doing Jiminy for so long!

(Fix yourself some fava beans, a nice chianti, and check the April 12 entry)

http://bentrecords.blogspot.com/2006_04 ... chive.html

[Brad from Georgia]

Eddie says he started doing Jiminy in 1973, which squares with Cliff Edwards' death in 1971--sure it isn't Cliff?

[Brad from Georgia]

That's Cliff, not Eddie--you can tell on the "s" sounds. Jiminy sounds a lot older then than he does today!

[shimp scrampi]

Ah, oh well - I was going by the info in the blog post.

Never mind! (/emily litella)

[Brad from Georgia]

Think I tracked it down--the mistake seems to be a slight misreading of "Disney Legends" by bentrecords. The "Disney Legends" page observes that Cliff Edwards made his last album for Disney in 1956, but bentrecords seems to take that as Cliff's last work for Disney. According to Eddie, Cliff's last recording for Disney--not an album, just some voice work--was done around 1970 or so--it was probably for the short "I'm No Fool with Electricity," btw. Eddie tells of testing for Jiminy in 1973 and being given a late Edwards voice track to emulate. He argued that it would be better to sound like a young Cliff than an older Cliff, and the Disney people eventually agreed. Eddie Carrol's website confirms that he's been doing Jiminy since '73: http://www.eddiecarroll.com/l_in_blm_ed.htm .

I know this is much ado about a cricket, but hey, credit where cricket is due, right?[/url]