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Sign up todayThis Here Is Your Life, Sherlock Holmes - Abridged
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Learn moreThis Here Is Your Life, Sherlock Holmes is a 1975 parody written and voiced by Daws Butler, Douglas McEwan, and members of the Daws Butler Workshop, including Billy Simpson, Pat Parris, and Corey Burton. In it, Ralph Backwards—along with Dr. Watson, Dracula, Jack-the-Ripper, and even Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman—roast the famous consulting detective.
Daws Butler was the master of voice. His was the voice behind most of the classic Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, and a hundred others. He also originated the vocal character of Cap’n Crunch and other famous Jay Ward cartoon characters. His significant work with Stan Freberg in the 1950s on The Stan Freberg Show and multimillion-selling records such as “St. George and the Dragonet” are still held in reverence today. He also ran a voice acting workshop for many years. Among his many successful students are Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, and Corey Burton, from Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind.
Douglas McEwan is the author of the books Tallyho, Tallulah!, My Lush Life, and The Q Guide to Classic Monster Movies. He has also written essays, television and radio scripts, plays, comedy sketches, and the forward to Creatures of the Night That We Loved So Well. As Tallulah Morehead, he wrote comic essays and reviews in the Huffington Post for two and a half years. As a radio personality in the 1970s, he interviewed such comedy giants as Groucho Marx and Bud Abbott. He lives in Reseda, California, with two cats who do not find him all that amusing.
Daws Butler was the master of voice. His was the voice behind most of the classic Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, and a hundred others. He also originated the vocal character of Cap’n Crunch and other famous Jay Ward cartoon characters. His significant work with Stan Freberg in the 1950s on The Stan Freberg Show and multimillion-selling records such as “St. George and the Dragonet” are still held in reverence today. He also ran a voice acting workshop for many years. Among his many successful students are Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, and Corey Burton, from Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind.
Douglas McEwan is the author of the books Tallyho, Tallulah!, My Lush Life, and The Q Guide to Classic Monster Movies. He has also written essays, television and radio scripts, plays, comedy sketches, and the forward to Creatures of the Night That We Loved So Well. As Tallulah Morehead, he wrote comic essays and reviews in the Huffington Post for two and a half years. As a radio personality in the 1970s, he interviewed such comedy giants as Groucho Marx and Bud Abbott. He lives in Reseda, California, with two cats who do not find him all that amusing.