Yogi Bear and the Beatlemania

[rodinei1964]

São Paulo - SP, Brazil, August 7, 2008 (11 hours remaining to the overture ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, which will be held in Beijing, China).

Hello, friends from GAC, Yesterdaylanders, Memory Laners, Retrolanders and HB-fans from the Americas and the whole world!

Here I am with another cool Hanna-Barbera material which I've seen on the Patrick Owsley's blog (http://powsley.blogspot.com).
I'm refering to a Yogi Bear Sunday comic strip (dated of 1965 [and drawn by Harvey Eisenberg]) which brings references from the Beatles on it.
This material appears on the following link: http://powsley.blogspot.com/2008/07/yogi-bear-beatles-1965-comc-strip.html.
Or else, try the following link: http://powsley.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html.
Have some fun with (and also for the elderest people, remember) this material.
Well, that's it!
Tchau!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
You're always welcome!

HEY-HEY-HEEEEEEY-YEA-YEA-YEA!

HANNA-BARBERA - 50 YEARS OF YOGI BEAR AND HUCKLEBERRY HOUND

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/Yogi_Bear.jpg/220px-Yogi_Bear.jpg
http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/15/yogi.jpg

Attention, HB-fans! Enjoy to visit the Hanna-Barbera official site (http://hanna-barbera.com) and have some fun!

IN MEMORIAN OF WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA

;)

[TheBlueHombre]

Great stuff there. I read the Yogi Bear strip every Sunday in the newspaper. It was always one of my favorites.

[Tim Lones]

I always read Yogi..and the Flintstones..i remember the Flintstones Sunday Strip was always second strip at the fold of the first page of Comics in the Canton (Ohio) Repository..

[MF TOON]

Patrick's blog is fantastic!

[AnthroCoon]

Speaking at Anthrocon, Floyd Norman said they were considering a Beatle-like
group appearing in The Jungle Book but Walt vetoed it, feeling the Moptops were
just a passing fad. A barbershop quartet--there's something more lasting--was
substituted, I believe he said.
TVParty.com had an old ad voiced by Daws Butler w/ Mr Jinx and his meece
friends going "California style" with a Beatles-like tune, with Jinx wearing a
Beatle wig...
http://www.tvparty.com/vaultdaws.html
http://www.tvparty.com/cvid/raisinbeat.ram


"Kellogg's Raisin Bran used California raisins, and the Beatles were hot in 1963, so naturally the two came together. (Please ignore the fact that the Beatles came from England)."

[Dell Comics Fan]

Speaking at Anthrocon, Floyd Norman said they were considering a Beatle-like
group appearing in The Jungle Book but Walt vetoed it, feeling the Moptops were
just a passing fad. A barbershop quartet--there's something more lasting--was
substituted, I believe he said.
TVParty.com had an old ad voiced by Daws Butler w/ Mr Jinx and his meece
friends going "California style" with a Beatles-like tune, with Jinx wearing a
Beatle wig...
http://www.tvparty.com/vaultdaws.html
http://www.tvparty.com/cvid/raisinbeat.ram


"Kellogg's Raisin Bran used California raisins, and the Beatles were hot in 1963, so naturally the two came together. (Please ignore the fact that the Beatles came from England)."

That's odd. I recall reading just the opposite somewhere. The vultures
were loosely based on the Fab Four. In fact, Chad Stuart (of the British
singing duo Chad & Jeremy) supplied one of the Liverpool sound-alike
speaking voices in Disney's "The Jungle Book."

[AnthroCoon]

Maybe he had said they were considering having them do a song for the movie but decided against it (I have his panel on tape somewhere and may replay it to see exactly what he said)...

[TheBlueHombre]

Speaking at Anthrocon, Floyd Norman said they were considering a Beatle-like
group appearing in The Jungle Book but Walt vetoed it, feeling the Moptops were
just a passing fad. A barbershop quartet--there's something more lasting--was
substituted, I believe he said.
TVParty.com had an old ad voiced by Daws Butler w/ Mr Jinx and his meece
friends going "California style" with a Beatles-like tune, with Jinx wearing a
Beatle wig...
http://www.tvparty.com/vaultdaws.html
http://www.tvparty.com/cvid/raisinbeat.ram


"Kellogg's Raisin Bran used California raisins, and the Beatles were hot in 1963, so naturally the two came together. (Please ignore the fact that the Beatles came from England)."
I am not trying to nitpick but the commercial had to have been made after 1964. The Beatles did not become popular in America until February 1964 when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Beatlemania swept the country right after that.

[Daws Butler Jr.]

Maybe he had said they were considering having them do a song for the movie but decided against it (I have his panel on tape somewhere and may replay it to see exactly what he said)...

I'm not sure what Floyd said, since I wasn't there, but your post jogged my memory. I think Woolie Reitherman was trying to get the real Beatles not only to write a song, but to do the voices of the vultures. I never really understood the final outcome. Three of the vultures are "Beatles", while one of them is bald and is voiced by J. Pat O'Malley. Then when they sing, they sing barbershop harmonies instead of rock 'n roll. It never made sense to me.

[Dell Comics Fan]

I think that if they had tried to hire The Beatles for the movie, Disney would have gone way over budget! :D

[Barb Herholzer]

I think that if they had tried to hire The Beatles for the movie, Disney would have gone way over budget! :D

Yeah, but imagine all the extra business the movie would have done had the Beatles been involved. Enough to erase the budget over-runs, I would think!

[AnthroCoon]

From my recording of Floyd Norman's "Animation Q&A" panel at Anthrocon 08:
http://microfurry.freehostia.com/FloydNorman.mp3

Questioner: I heard a rumor going around that (in The Jungle Book) you know the scene with the vultures in it? I heard a rumor that the Beatles were going to voice
them but they had to drop out. Is that true?

Floyd Norman: Because of that I was able to take home a bunch of Beatles albums that the studio had purchased! You're right. At one point the Beatles were--now,
I don't know if we were going to get the actual Beatles but we were going to do a Beatles-type song entitled "We're Your Friend" and that was going to be kind of like a rock song but when that idea was pitched to Walt Disney, Walt said, "Well, that's a Beatles type song and I don't know how long these guys are gonna be around.
(Crowd laughs and goes, "Oh!") Oh yeah. So Walt didn't know everything. So Walt made us change it to a barbershop quartet because he figured, well, people will always sing barbershop quartets (crowd laughs)
and those Beatles, well, they might be gone in a year so who knows! So that's true, we were going to do "We're Your Friend" as a rock song a la The Beatles and that's why Chad and Jeremy
and all those guys were going to be involved. That's why the vultures tended to have sort of a Liverpool accent.