Cliff Edwards

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Welcome to the Heal Here podcast.

I am your host, Kate Flick, and thank you to Cliff Edwards from Disney Studio Chorus for singing us in today with When You Wish Upon a Star.

If you are new here, welcome.

I start most, if not every episode, with something I like to call spiritual karaoke.

Troy, what was your last cryptic? Yes, cryptic

number two, being nosy, it's just not cricket or is it? An actor called Cliff Edwards.

Now, he was known as Ukulele Mike, American singer and actor, voiced Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's.

Yep.

A perfect guest for this.

um there's a synopsis here but like it's pinocchio this is it's we're talking about the 1940 pinocchio it's pinocchio you've probably seen it it's it's pinocchio like and if you haven't seen this you've probably seen one of them it's still pinocchio um a living puppet with the help of a cricket as his conscience must prove himself worthy to become a real boy it was directed by ben sharpstein and hamilton luke luske uh lusk lusk yeah Stars Dickie Jones, Christian Rubb, and Cliff Edwards.

Where were you guys able to watch Pinocchio for this podcast?

I don't know who's supposed to talk first.

now that i think about it

definitely at the very least inspired yeah yeah yeah

because like because he was voiced by some uh cliff edwards who was like a vaudeville comedian and so some people were like well it was just inspired by his stage act and i was like i don't know man i kind of hear jimmy's jimmy stewart and i'm like not fully right he's not doing an impression but there's certain stuff that he says where you're like This sounds exactly like Jimmy Stewart.

Someone on Reddit made me laugh because they were

Walter Van Brunt sang the Arthur Freed lyrics to Joseph Meyer's tune.

You're Simply Delish is heard in the Cliff Edwards, Fifi D'Orsay, Reginald Denny picture, Those Three French Girls.

But we heard it on Crown 783009, recorded in November of 1930.

Before that, one of more than a dozen recordings in 1929 and '30 alone of Chant of the Jungle, this one with the music by Nacio Herb Brown.

I've played it only once before by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, but that was Paul Specht and his orchestra with Johnny Morris on Columbia 2002D, recorded October 8th, 1929.

We started our little tribute to Arthur Freed with another Freed-Brown collaboration, The Moon is Low.

And of course, you recognize the voice as that of Cliff Edwards, credited as Ukulele Ike on Columbia 2169D.

They tried it three times on February 5th, 1930 with no success, but came back on March 9th with both takes and seven issued.

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Carter Products, Inc., sponsors of John J. Anthony, and the makers of four-way cold tablets, sponsors of Cliff Edwards.

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