[Groop]Off Topic Question for Mark

[Mark Evanier]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:07:03 EST, RMorris306@io.dreamhost.com wrote:

>    Obviously he wasn't all of them. Hanna-Barbera, in fact, tended to have 
>Don Messick do their dog characters...not the ones who were basically doglike 
>human characters like Huckleberry Hound, Reddy (both Daws Butler) and Doggie 
>Daddy (Doug Young doing a Jimmy Durante riff), but those who were treated AS 
>dogs in the context of the story: Messick voiced Scooby-Doo,  the Jetsons' 
>Astro, and probably several more I'm forgetting, including (I think) Goober 
>and Wonder Dog. But I'm sure Mark will be able to tell us a lot more...and 
>Frank seems to be filling in more than satisfactorily for the late Mr. 
>Messick...

ME: Messick did most of the dogs until Frank came on the scene.  In
fact, at Don's funeral, Frank told a wonderful story...

Frank's first voice job was as Fred on SCOOBY-DOO and Don, of course,
was Scooby.  One day, Don took Frank aside and advised him to work on
his barking and dog sounds because, he said, "They always need a dog."

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