When you were as good as Mel Blanc was, you got around.
Besides, you never know when Warner Brothers might have wanted to use the voice or image of someone that was under contract to a rival studio – but if you had already played nice by letting them use Mel, it put them in the position of hardly being able to refuse if you wanted to use Thurl Ravenscroft, June Foray, or Paul Frees.
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Not sure offhand, but I don't think Mel Blanc ever did Woody Woodpecker. Too lazy to look.
Blanc voiced the cartoons 1940-41, and later did some songs as Woody.
Oh, all right, I'll look at his autobiography to see for sure. By contract with Warner, I had thought he could not do voices for any other animators.
When you were as good as Mel Blanc was, you got around.
Besides, you never know when Warner Brothers might have wanted to use the voice or image of someone that was under contract to a rival studio – but if you had already played nice by letting them use Mel, it put them in the position of hardly being able to refuse if you wanted to use Thurl Ravenscroft, June Foray, or Paul Frees.
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