MouseStation 414 – Gawrsh! Bill Farmer talks about Goofy!
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On today’s show, Steven Ng talks to Bill Farmer about his voice work providing the voice of Goofy and Pluto, as well as other work, plus we share some listener feedback and close with a wonderful Magical Moment.
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Feature: Gawrsh! Bill Farmer talks about Goofy!
Steven Ng caught up with Bill Farmer at this past summer’s NFFC Disneyana Fan Club Show and Sale.
Bill and Steven talked a little about the Disneyana Show & Sale before turning to a discussion of the efforts to get June Foray into the upcoming Smurfs movie. June originally performed the voice for Jokey Smurf, but in the new movie that role is going to Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-Wee Herman and Star Tours’ Captain Rex). The Facebook campaign for “Smurf Justice for June Foray” was started by Bob Bergen (current voice of Warner Brothers character Tweety Bird). For Disney, Foray also portrayed Grandmother Fa in Mulan.
Bill described the process by which he went from being a stand-up comedian in Dallas, TX to doing Disney character voices. His first role was in the TV special “Disney’s Doggone Valentine” in 1987.
Bill reminisced about the late Wayne Allwine, the longtime voice of Mickey Mouse, and the late Eddie Carroll, longtime voice of Jiminy Cricket and a friend of the MouseStation.
Bill has done many voices over the years, including most of the Warner Brothers characters and even Kermit the Frog. He’s also done a lot of Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) and background voices. Bill was the voice of the racetrack announcer in Secretariat.
Bill also talked about the origin of the “Goofy yell,” sometimes also known as the “Goofy holler.” It originated in the short “The Art of Skiing,” and was originally done by a yodeller named Hannès Schroll, who performed the yell while Pinto Colvig performed Goofy’s speaking voice in the short.
Our thanks to Bill Farmer for taking the time to sit with Steven Ng, and to Steven for bringing us the interview.
Listener Feedback
Sue Coppola wrote to say that she’s glad that we’re back and to pass along her complaints about the new “Let the Memories Begin” campaign and the lack of a 40th anniversary celebration for Walt Disney World. It launched a good discussion about the new campaign and Mark and Mike’s takes on what they think that Disney should do in terms of celebrating park or resort anniversaries.
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