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Al Jones, a disc jockey for WRR FM 101.1, was the first voice of Big Tex, and would fill the role until the fair ended in 1955. [25] Radio announcer Jim Lowe, the most well-known voice of Big Tex, began performing his voice in 1956. [26]
Tex Brashear (born January 2, 1955) is a voice actor, [1] who after a career in radio in Texas, Arizona, and Los Angeles, made the transition into voice acting. Known as "The Man of 1000 Voices" (although he actually does more than 3000), Brashear has been heard in thousands of cartoons, radio and television commercials, and has narrated many nature and historical films.
March 23 – The Big Story ends its run on NBC. [4] March 27 – Hallmark Hall of Fame ends its run on network radio . [4] May 22 – The Jack Benny Program airs its last radio episode and moves solely to television. June 7 – Lux Radio Theater ends its run on CBS. June 9 – Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ends its run on network radio . [4]
Big Tex, a 55-foot (17 m) tall cowboy statue, has been its symbol since his introduction in 1952. In 1953, Big Tex's jaw was hinged, so that he appears to "speak" the announcements that promote fair events. [23] After a fire on October 19, 2012, destroyed the original Big Tex, he was rebuilt and reintroduced for the 2013 fair.
Big Tex has greeted State Fair of Texas visitors for 70 years, but ten years ago a fire brought the North Texas icon down to its metal frame.
The movie short Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Band was released by RKO pictures in 1947 with Lillian Lane, Artie Malvin and The Crew Chiefs vocal group performing. [19] In a slightly sarcastic article in Time magazine from June 2, 1947, [ 20 ] [ 21 ] the magazine notes that the Beneke-led Miller orchestra was playing at the same venue the ...
The First Bad Man is an American animated cartoon directed by Tex Avery, and features narration by singing cowboy Tex Ritter. [2] It was released by MGM on September 30, 1955. Plot
Ventriloquist Cat was later remade in CinemaScope as Cat's Meow, which was released on January 25, 1957. [4] [5] It was one of two Avery MGM cartoons to have been reworked in the widescreen format (the other was the 1949 Droopy cartoon Wags to Riches, which was redone as Millionaire Droopy); as Avery himself was long gone from MGM at the time of these remakes, the new versions were worked on ...