Author: Will Ryan

Will Ryan’s melodious songs and cheerful cactus crooning have earned him two Gold Records, the BMI Pioneer Award, the coveted Golden Jackalope Award and the title “Official Singing Cowboy of Hollywood”. The busy leader of the Cactus County Cowboys - and inventor of Cowboy Skiffle - loves riding Western trails with his pal Cimarron, Wonder Horse of the Cinema.

Cartoon Acting Legend June Foray

December 26, 2011 - Actors, Comedians, Full Interviews With Our Guests, Most Recent, Our Podcast

Cartoon voice of Rocky, Natasha, and all your favorite Warner and Disney characters June Foray. Our interview with June Foray born September 18, 1917. June Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters (particularly Lucifer from Cinderella, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Witch Hazel, Granny, Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick). Her career has encompassed radio, theatrical shorts, feature films, television, record albums (particularly with Stan Freberg), video games, talking toys and other media. Foray was also one of the founding members of ASIFA-Hollywood, the society devoted to promoting and encouraging animation.

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Hollywood Royalty

May 15, 2011 - Full Interviews With Our Guests, Our Podcast

Documentarian Jeffrey Sherman’s “The Boys” features Walt Disney, Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Haley Mills, Roy Disney, Louis Prima, Pixar’s John Lassiter, Ben Stiller, John Landes to name just a few. The movie chronicles life growing up with a father and uncle who wrote all the great music from your favorite Disney movies. What’s it like to grow up in true Hollywood Royalty? To be a child on the set of “Mary Poppins” and have Walt Disney ask you for advice? To be first in line at the brand new rides at Disneyland? Today’s special guest is comedy writer and producer Jeffrey Sherman whose documentary “The Boys, The Sherman Brothers” is currently streaming right now on Netflix.“The Boys” is a riveting documentary about Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman — aka The Sherman Brothers — the Academy Award and Grammy-winning songwriters whose music you’ll recognize from Mary Poppins to The Lion King to Charlotte’s Web. We talked with him at the KPFK studios with Frank Conniff, Eddie Peppitone and Kevin Rooney.

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