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Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver (May 11, 1911 – January 16, 1983) [1] [2] was an American character actor, comedian, and musician. Born into a wealthy West Coast family, Weaver began his career in radio. In the late 1930s, he performed on Rudy Vallée's radio programs and Kraft Music Hall. He later joined Spike Jones' City Slickers.
In this case, Weaver's now gravelly-voiced track announcer begins describing a boxing match. The song concludes with Weaver announcing the winner... Beetlebaum! [2] The City Slickers and Doodles Weaver recorded a sequel, describing the Indianapolis 500 and underscored by Dance of the Hours. Near the conclusion of the race, a horrific accident ...
Doodles Weaver (vocals – specialized in playing sports commentators and absentminded singers who persistently scrambled their lyrics into malapropisms and digressed into stand-up comedy) Red Ingle (sax, vocals) Frank Rehak (trombone) Del Porter (clarinet, vocals) Carl Grayson (violin, vocals) Perry Botkin (banjo) Country Washburne (tuba)
Thoroughbreds is a 1944 American drama film directed by George Blair, written by Wellyn Totman and Franklin Coen, and starring Tom Neal, Adele Mara, Roger Pryor, Paul Harvey, Eugene Gericke and Doodles Weaver. It was released on December 23, 1944, by Republic Pictures. [1] [2] [3]
Narrator Doodles Weaver explains the rules of ice hockey in satirical format. The narration's emphasis on good sportsmanship is countered by the violence of the players (all of them "played" by Goofy). Team captains Ice Box Bertino and Fearless Ferguson are rivals who brutally fight each other and incur a penalty before the game can begin ...
Doodles Weaver: George Bricker Regis "Aunt Bee's Brief Encounter" (2.09) "A Black Day for Mayberry" (4.07) Weaver was the brother of former NBC president Pat Weaver and the uncle of actress Sigourney Weaver: Clarence White: The Country Boys member "Mayberry on Record" (1.19) White was lead guitarist for The Kentucky Colonels, and later, The Byrds.
In 1941, one of Copp's comedy narratives was performed by comic Doodles Weaver for a Soundie movie short, "Arabella and the Water Tank." Copp and Weaver would work on comedy scripts for radio and club routines off and on for the next several years, until Doodles moved to California in 1946, to join Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Doodles Weaver as Piano player; Spanky, Darla, and Alfalfa in the "Club Spanky" dream sequence' Production. Often pointed out as one of the best entries in the ...