In Memory of Stan Freberg, Here’s “Elderly Man River”

I knew Stan Freberg (the “madcap adman and satirist” who passed away on Tuesday) mostly as the Beaver in Lady and the Tramp. Or as various voices in various Looney Toons production. Or as The Man We Praise and/or Blame for Weird Al.

But he also did this hilarious “Elderly Man River” radio routine, which is almost Peter Schickele-like in its mastery of sarcasm, both musical and matter-of-factual. (Here’s the golden-throated Paul Robeson by way of comparison. And by way of pure enjoyment.)

Attribution(s): “Stan Freberg Leans on Chair” is an anonymous publicity photo, licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.