Brian,
I belive that the site you and Greg saw was “Daws Butler:A Personal Portrait of My Mentor”,and it was By Joe Bevilacqua.
My name is Tim T, although I am young (24) I do consider Daws Butler as my mentor even after his passing. Because it is through Daws’s work, writing,demo tapes etc.. that I learned most of my Voice Acting abilities. It was Daws in a way that tought me that there is more to doing voices than just doing them flat out.
Since then,I have been training my voice and practicing his chracters such as Yogi,Quick Draw, and Elroy. I have been able to match a few,but I still lack the ability to change my pitch the was Daws did.
Which show just how talented Daws was. I wish you luck with your current project. I would help but I’m not an musician. Perhaps you can give it an unusual title such as “The talent known as Daws” or,”Voice of Talent”,”A work of Daws”. Maybe even as simple as “The talented Mr. Butler”… I suppose coming up with titles is difficult.
Best of Luck,
Tim “Voice Guy” T
Tim:
I think that I was most impressed with the mean voices Daws did, like Captain Skyhook, of The Space Kidettes, from the mid to late 60s……….or when he tried to do a “mouse version” of Jackie Gleason, on a Warner Bros. cartoon of Ralph Kramden, Alice, Norton and Trixie, all as mice………..(that voice was a lot like Captain Skyhook, except that he did not speak with a British accent there).
It’s not that those voices are my very favorite that he did……….not at all………Just that I was impressed that the same man who did Elroy, Lambsy or Augie Doggie, could also do those mean, grouchy, evil voices.
About Elroy, Lambsy or Augie Doggie………It was always neat to hear Daws do those characters, when he had to make one of them cry……….They were so believable, as little children, when he made them weep.
Twenty-four is a neat age to be. Hard to believe that in about 5 years, or so, I could practically be old enough to be your Dad (or at least the age that many men are, when they have their first child). I remember, when I was even younger than you, how much fun it was to dabble in this side of the entertainment industry. I’m glad that I never lost interest in it, even though I never purused the acting side of this field.
Brian