# RIP, Stan Freberg **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084 "2015-04-07T23:31:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/1 "2015-04-07T23:31:22Z")
The next time you laugh at a commercial, curse the commercialization of Christmas, or sing about the America Revolution, spare a thought for the man who did it first. [Stan Freberg, Acclaimed Satirist, Dies at 88](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stan-freberg-dead-acclaimed-satirist-787007) ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/2 "2015-04-07T23:51:53Z")
I grew up on his parodies. It’s good he’s gone, though. He’d gotten rather badly wrinkled there, at the end. What a brilliant wit he was. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/3 "2015-04-07T23:58:50Z")
I grew up on The Looney Tunes’ Three Little Bops 😉 Love his stuff. Thanks, Stan. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/4 "2015-04-08T00:24:29Z")
If you’re as old as I and remember rock and roll of the 1950-58 period, his parodies included Shaboom, The Great Pretender and Heartache Hotel. I’ve still got them on tape from the time. Genius. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/5 "2015-04-08T00:33:37Z")
Don’t forget his ad agency, Thyme Incorporated. His ad for [Geno’s Pizza Rolls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE-NdrzfFOo) was pure genius (though the references are a bit obscure today – the ad parodies a Lark Cigarette campaign that asked people to show them their Lark packs, with the same music). He also did a print ad for Chung King Chow Mein saying “Four out of five doctors prefer Chung King.” Four of the five doctors were Chinese. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/6 "2015-04-08T00:34:56Z")
This will stand for all time as a monument to the genius of Stan Freberg: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY2VAIIQAj4) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/7 "2015-04-08T00:35:11Z")
Damn, The commercials – Great American Soups, the LOne Ranger Jeno’s Pizza Rolls. The Pitted Prunes commercials. Not to mention stuff like “Dragonet”. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/8 "2015-04-08T00:36:29Z")
Ah, that’s a big hit. I loved his work growing up, still love it now. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/9 "2015-04-08T00:40:15Z")
Captain! There are rumblings of mutiny below! Rumble, rumble, rumble. Mutiny, mutiny, mutiny. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/10 "2015-04-08T00:42:02Z")
[Jacobsen lawn mowers… faster than sheep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSiZPEUfFnM) RIP Stan ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/11 "2015-04-08T00:50:52Z")
For true fans, get the [Tip of the Freberg](http://www.amazon.com/Tip-Freberg-Collection-1951-1998-4-Disc/dp/B00000JNIO/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1428454127&sr=1-1&keywords=tip+of+the+freberg) box set. A long and great career. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/12 "2015-04-08T00:54:07Z")
We’ve actually [discussed the Great American Soup commercial before.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-256571.html) I believe it was the most expensive TV commercial ever made to that time. Freberg was an inspriation to generations of copywriters (like me) who couldn’t get away with what he could get away with. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/13 "2015-04-08T01:52:37Z")
he was sometimes funny. he certainly pushed himself. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/14 "2015-04-08T02:53:06Z")
RIP, Stan. We enjoyed life through you. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/15 "2015-04-08T02:58:06Z")
Stan Freberg was still alive‽‽‽ ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/16 "2015-04-08T03:02:53Z")
[This,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-TApnxnCTY) not the Harry Belafonte version, introduced me to “Day-O.” Like, THE END. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/17 "2015-04-08T03:05:20Z")
10 million moo-cows can’t be wrong. Stan the Man is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/18 "2015-04-08T03:11:06Z")
I’ve got a couple of pristine 45s of his from the 50s . Profit! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/19 "2015-04-08T03:13:55Z")
Sorry to hear. Now his death juxtaposed with the return of **Mad Men** reminds me of one, IMO glaring, omission on that show: no jingle writers! Not even mentioned as offscreen characters. And now I wonder, how would Freberg have fared at Sterling Cooper et al? Would he have thrived with them, or would he have left saying “I’m not **that** nuts!”? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084/20 "2015-04-08T03:22:24Z")
The discovery of America! _Ta-Da-Ta-Dah!_ What was that? French horns. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-stan-freberg/717084.md?page=2)