Pat Carroll

That

was Pat Carroll,

actually.

Pat Carroll, yes.

Yes.

The woman who was the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid.

Musker recalled that the script even described Ursula as having a Bea Arthur voice, but Arthur never auditioned.

Several other actresses were considered, including Charlotte Rae and Elaine Stritch, before the role eventually went to Pat Carroll.

And Carol completes the character because she understands the same thing Ashman and the artists understood.

Ursula is performing.

Rob Minkoff brings in Divine.

Matt O'Callaghan gives that idea tentacles.

Pat Carroll gives her a voice.

And somewhere in the middle of all those real people, Ursula appears.

And he has quite a show.

It's a 90-minute show, and it features a co-host each week, big names in the entertainment field: Marlene Dahl, Dorothy Dandridge, Pat Carroll, Morey Amsterdam, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gypsy Rose Lee, and James Mansfield.

There's other prominent names, and they're quite prominent in different ways in their own fields.

And as Jerry told you, it's a beautiful day for a ball game.

As it's Jodi Benson's 65th birthday today, I think it's only right to go back to her November 17, 1989, animated Disney classic, The Little Mermaid.

The iconic Disney take on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale also stars the voices of Christopher Daniel Barnes, the late Pat Carroll, the late Samuel E. Wright, Jason Martin, and the late René Auberjon.

The film, which has been a part of our world, sorry, couldn't help it, for all these decades doesn't need a plot recap.

It was the first film in the era called the Disney Renaissance and ended up with a worldwide lifetime gross of $233 million whozits and whatzits and thingamabobs.

So what is number seven?

Seven is Poor Unfortunate Souls by Pat Carroll from The Little Mermaid.

Poor unfortunate souls in pain, in need.

This one longing to be thinner, that one wants to get the girl and do I help them? Those poor unfortunate souls.

They come flocking to my cauldron crying, Spells, Ursula, please, and I help them.

Yes, I do.

And when we say by Pat Carroll, by Jeremy Irons, we really mean performed by.

They didn't write the song.

Little Mermaid.

You have Pat Carroll, who's an actress singing, poor unfortunate souls.

You know, she's like, she's.

so good at it she's not on the notes all the time it's just kind of going through but you believe it and for instance this guy if you imagine this guy singing ain't no sunshine when she's gone it's kind of crusty a little piece of hay sticking out of his mouth you know