Tony the Tiger is dead

[xortam]

Thurl Ravenscroft, who provided the rumbling "They're Grrrrreeeat!" for Kellogg's Tony the Tiger ads and voiced a host of Disney characters, has died. He was 91. ...

[schmosef]

He was Gr-r-reat! Seriously, one of my favourite cereals when I was a kid.

[Kooldino]

Wow, he lived long.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Ravenscroft also did voices for the animated films "Cinderella," "The Jungle Book," "Mary Poppins," "Alice in Wonderland," "Lady and the Tramp" and many others.

Born in Norfolk, Nebraska, Ravenscroft moved to California in 1933 to study art. By the mid-1930s he was appearing regularly on radio, and by the late-1930s he was singing backup for Bing Crosby.

After military service during World War II, he returned to Hollywood, where he sang with the Mellomen, a group that performed with Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Elvis Presley.

he had a pretty cool life.

[paulcs]

Let us bow our heads and remember this classic:

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.

You're a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.
Mr. Grinch.

I wouldn't touch you, with a
thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.

When I was a kid, I assumed Boris Karloff sang that song. I think my father told me it was actually Tony the Tiger.

Paul

[ZokesPro]

R.I.P. Tony. (Thurl)

He was Gr-r-reat! Seriously, one of my favourite cereals when I was a kid.

Not anymore? Still tastes the same, IMO.

[schmosef]

Still tastes the same, IMO.

I'm all grown up now and my tastes have changed. It's too sweet for me now.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

ive found that to be the case for a lot of cereal that i ate as a kid.