Jul 5, 2023
Songs of the Pogo Podcast Episode # 7
THE SOUNDS OF WALT KELLY - The Wonderful World of Walt
Kelly
Welcome to the SONGS OF THE POGO
Podcast where Hosts Frank
Farrell and Ben Masterton recreate the hysterical
and imaginative, Wonderful World of Walt Kelly; his writings, songs
and comic strip stories mixed in with his personal memoirs and
magazine interviews. “The Pogo comic strip was a mostly silent
affair so it is interesting to think about the sounds of his work,”
says co-host Farrell. “We are bringing sound to the world of Walt
Kelly and all of it of course suggested by his particular genius,”
Farrell continued. “Walt Kelly was a great poet and
the sounds of the words he chooses are playful and fun to speak and
hear,” Farrell’s co-host Ben Masterton chimed in.”
Joining Frank and Ben for Episode 7
– THE SOUNDS OF WALT KELLY - are talented and
versatile performers from all over the U. S. of A.; Norm Boucher as
Walt Kelly, Darren Stephens as Narrator and Porkypine, Danny
Crawford as Albert the Alligator, Jeanette Schwaba as a Bat and
Mistress Flurry, Elizabeth Kelly as a Town Gossip, Julia Maish as
Pogo and Kevin Blair as Wiley Catt. Ashley Oviedo
sings Whither the Starling and Aisha de Haas sings
A Song Not For Now. Both songs have lyrics by Walt Kelly
and music by Norman Monath.
Walt Kelly (August 25, 1913 – October 18,
1973), was
an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip
Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney
Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia and Dumbo. In 1941, at
the age of 28, Kelly transferred to work at Dell Comics, where he
created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for
political and philosophical humor. Pogo ran for 26 years in
daily newspapers in the 1950s, 60s and
70s.
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