Comments on: Beloved Herring Maven, RIP

Beloved Herring Maven, RIP

zarq — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:03:27 -0800

Actor, Playwright, Artist, Comedian, Magician, "Man of A Thousand Voices" (including Mighty Mouse,) "Beloved Herring Maven"
Mr. Ira Stadlen (Stage name: "Captain" Allen Swift) has passed away at the age of 87. Throughout his career, Mr. Stadler voiced characters in more than 30,000 television and radio commercials, as well as cartoons such as Underdog, Tom and Jerry and Diver Dan, but some might remember him most as the man who saved Howdy Doody. His nephew has posted a remembrance on his blog, which includes a link to a "novelty 45" mp3 recording of Swift's "Are You Lonesome Tonight."

* Wikipedia * IMDB * Paid Death Notice (NYTimes) * YouTube Video: Mighty Mouse "Open & Rare Bumpers with Colgate Closing" * Mighty Mouse: "Wolf! Wolf!"

By: zarq

zarq — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:10:01 -0800

Mighty Mouse is the first cartoon I can remember watching as a child. I clearly remember wearing Mighty Mouse pajamas and sleeping on a Mighty Mouse sheet set. :) I may also have played "Mighty Mouse to the Rescue!" with the cute girl next door.... :) .

By: joelf

joelf — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:22:43 -0800

By: Splunge

Splunge — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:24:16 -0800

By: snsranch

snsranch — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:25:21 -0800

Yowza, what a great voice. .

By: Splunge

Splunge — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:25:58 -0800

Diver Dan. Wow. The floodgates of memory open and spew forth a wave of nostalgia that nearly drowns me...

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:41:57 -0800

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:46:34 -0800

YouTube Video: Mighty Mouse "Open & Rare Bumpers with Colgate Closing" link is borked.

By: zarq

zarq — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:48:38 -0800

YouTube Video: Mighty Mouse "Open & Rare Bumpers with Colgate Closing" link is borked. Crap. Thanks. This is the correct link.

By: bukvich

bukvich — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:19:13 -0800

HERE I AM TO SAVE THE DAY!

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:40:10 -0800

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:45:22 -0800

Tooter Turtle

By: kuppajava

kuppajava — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:54:42 -0800

. he was awesome as Simon Bar Sinister and that was probably one of the first voices i attempted to imitate as a child

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:44:55 -0800

Don't forget "Mad Monster Party?" where Swift did celebrity impersonations of most of the celebrity monsters (except the Baron, for which the got ol' Boris Karloff himself). I was 6 when "Diver Dan" hit the TV, and more than most of the strange kiddie shows of the era, it was the stuff of nightmares for me. One observation: Baron Baracuda's henchman Trigger the tiger-striped triggerfish is obviously a bad fish, he has a cigarette in his mouth... underwater. (That was about the time my parents had to quit smoking after I developed childhood asthma... like I said, stuff of nightmares).