My only day off of work in a eight day week, Drew and I went thrift store shopping on Saturday. This is what we like to do because we can always find real good bargains.
Well this time I really found something I thought I would never see again. Yes this album of Mr. Sound Effects Wes Harrison and I got the album for only a dollar. The one and only time I seen him was at the Wisconsin Dells during a Tommy Bartlet Water Ski Show. This was over twenty years ago that I had seen him. He is really funny and I really enjoyed his show. My son was only three years old and he was sitting there laughing and enjoying the show.
He was in two wars, World War II and the Koren War. When he got out he went to the Aurthur Godfrey talent show and won. Ted Mack gave him his start in the show business, he started to appear on a lot of t.v. shows like Ed Sullivan, Merv Griffin and Dean Martin. He has also done some sound effects for Disney and MGM shows like Tom and Jerry, Peter Pan and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
I lost this album after my divorce and never thought I would see it again and then I found it. I was so happy when I found this album, I had to listen to it Saturday night when we got home. You should have seen Drew's face listening to it, the looks were priceless. I was sitting there laughing while I was listening to it.
On the album he has The Big Duck Hunt, Odds and Ends, Take a Train and Wes' Car. When you hear this you would not believe what he has done to people. Here are a couple of things from the album- On his car he put a speaker behind the grill and made train sounds going down the street, in a traffic jam he made sounds of a galloping horse with a police officer two cars in front of him, he got kicked off of two planes for making train sounds. He puts on one awesome show.
If you enjoy comedy like this it is a album to get.
Thank you for reading this and please feel free to leave any comments!♥
Tender Heart, You mention Tommy Bartlett, and It reminds me of when my mother-in-law was In an assisted living home In the Dell's. Tommy was older than dirt, and was living In the room across the hall from my MIL. He had a heap of CD's In his room, so I asked him what kind of music he liked, and It was Jazz. I had a Jazz CD that I thought he might like, and gave It to him. He died shortly after that, and I never heard If he liked It or not? BTW, for all the talking he did for radio etc. he wasn't a very outgoing man In his OLD age. The very first time I saw him, was at a restaurant called Jeannies. I had no idea who he was, and asked Jeannie who It was and she told me. I told her I thought It was Santa Claus. He had white hair, and a very long beard, and drove a sports car, with WBBM license plates. Maybe It was WGN? I don't remember.
ReplyDeleteDigressing....A long long time ago there was a newspaper named World's Good News. Everyone read it. They eventually got a radio station and gave it the call letters of the initials of the paper...WGN I think it is the only station with only three letters in it.
ReplyDeletePS...I heard, or rather saw, that album in a store (again a long long time ago) and thought it would be neat to play it in traffic. But alas we didn't have tapes or CDs then. You guys bring out so many memories for me.
ReplyDeleteI never heard of this guy, THB. If you check him out on YouTube, though, there are plenty of videos. He does amazing stuff. Thank you for the info.
ReplyDeleteToad- I have been to the Tommy Barlett show two times and never seen him. Sorry to hear you never found out about the CD you gave him.
ReplyDeleteSassa- I have never seen this album in the store. My ex and I bought one at the show. Yes this album does bring back memories for me about the show.
Orbs- You are welcome. I am glad you like what he does. I look at it this way if you need a laugh just listen to him.
Thank you all for the comments!♥