I have a CD of this that a friend who works in Hollywood gave me almost 15 years ago (before it was uploaded here) and yes, I know the ride well enough to know what was kept, and what was tossed from this session.
That’s what made this and K.A.R.R. so great. They were just slight variations on his everyday voice. As you can hear here when he speaks to the director: slow him down, enunciate every syllable and that’s both voices.
These recordings are 50 years old, and still in use at the various Disney theme parks in the U.S. I've never been to the parks in France or Asia so not sure if they used voices in the local languages or used Paul Frees. He was a remarkable talent, lived in Marin County near San Francisco, and way before the technology made it easy, he had a studio installed in his home with high-quality phone lines that allowed him to perform at any major studio in San Francisco, New York or Hollywood without even driving across the Golden Gate Bridge. I produced television commercials in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 80s, and while I had his demo tape in my office library, I never had occasion or the budget to book him for a job. So I never me the man, but talked to many others who had worked with him. Notice he directs himself mostly. He knew when each take was a keeper or needed to be re-recorded. He only needed time cues from the producer. If he knew he had done a perfect take, and some 20 something newbie producer tried to direct him, he simply wouldn't do it and would educate the baby producer that Take 2 was perfect and no more takes were needed. "Let's move on . . .". Conversely, if he knew he could bring something better or different to the reading, he'd gladly do another take. "The timing was good" said the producer, to which he replied "So was the reading". "Have a little more fun with it" to which he replied "Stretch it you mean?" The man knew he was good. He was also the voice of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. More information about Paul Frees can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frees
Vincent Price voices the ghost host in Disneyland Paris then it was changed to a French voice actor that does the dub for Price's movies but was reverted back again. Tokyo Disneyland also uses a Japanese voice actor for the ghost host.
He had a perfect baritone speaking voice...amazing, how he could alter that masculine voice in many ways! He seems, in photos, to be a shorter guy...his voice does not match his visage.
I’ll never forget being that wide-eyed six year old kid visiting the Haunted Mansion for the first time in the 1970’s. Paul’s voice accompanying those creepy portraits is unforgettable. How cool is it to listen to this masterpiece being created?
finster1968, absolutely!! Frees' voice is burned into my imagination just from this one Disney attraction. Add SFX, appropriate music & stir --- man, that whole package was a masterpiece - so well done! (Even his safety precautions are harrowing --- "Muwahh-hah-hah-haaaaa...!")
Yep! When they started to stretch is when I started to really worry. Also, was six years old, and it made such an impression on me that when I heard him I started to cry when we went again at 15. :-D Now I'm a voice actor, and this is #goals
Thurl also lent his voice to a couple Disney films too. He was one of the singing cards in Alice in Wonderland, some of the singing pound dogs in Lady and the Tramp, and Captain the horse in 101 Dalmatians
He had so many roles, from his days in radio, to cartoon voices to movies (war of the worlds, St Valentines Day Massacre ect) to the 2nd incarnation of K.A.R.R. in knight rider
Especially if your a frequent watcher of the Rankin/Bass holiday specials. His voice for both Burgermeister Meister Burger and Grimsley in Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town is the most recognizable and shows off his impressive vocal range.
Paul’s voice alone sends shivers down your spine. I listened to another version of the Ghost Host. Played by the none other than the legendary Vincent Price! Both are awesome to hear.
Take 2 was great and dude in the control room had the nerve to say "he's a half second over". ! What he SHOULD have said was, GREAT TAKE, PERFECT. Let's move on to the next one.
TruthSurge no it didn’t, I know what you meant, but the final take just had IT. That intonation that makes it magical & just perfect. Like Atencio told him: “make it more breathy-like”. And wouldn’t you know it, an iconic spiel forever. The others were timed OK but didn’t have that special quality the final one does. The second one that was a second over seemed forced with a mixture of normal & forcibly deep intonations, plus unnecessary pauses between certain words. The final one, the one chosen is not only read but “acted out”. The final result was just perfection. There’s a good reason the imagineers chose that particular one. I think THIS may have zoomed over your head.
@@JOHNNYBIX38 thats because each segment has to be timed in a certain way and sometimes theu don't have wiggle room so He was not critiquing the proformace more so letting him know he may have to change the speed of his cadence if they can't use that take. To which another Imaginer lets them know its usable
@@devinaschenbrenner2683 Agreed, but by sheer luck or fate, the final take turned out to sound the best. It just flows more naturally and has the best intonation. The others, regardless of timing, sound forced and unnatural. So in the end, everything worked out for the best, the timing, the voice, the inflection. Notice how he doesn't pause between some words, like in the other two or goes from deep to a bit higher. In the final take, it all just flows perfectly, even the way he says some of the words, such as death STILL - and actually cuts off the word and shortens it to emphasize the stillness. The word DELIGHT is actually also pronounced with a joyous delightful tone. I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying, but he literally acts out each phrase and word accordingly, with just the right amount of pitch and resonance. All in all, the imagineers did a brilliant job of picking just the right takes and Paul Frees gave them great choices but it all turned out perfectly in the end.
Only Frees could bang out this ride's narration perfectly in one take. Most of the multiple takes were for slight time overages or coverage. His variety of intonations he brought to the Ghost Host couldn't be matched in the industry--and would be very difficult to parallel now.
I feel like it would be a cool idea if Disney reused some of these takes and randomly use them in parts of the ride, so like when he says “Welcome foolish mortals, to the Haunted Mansion.” Sometimes it would be ripped from a different take. I feel like it could add a little bit of life (how ironic) to him.
Paul frees was another popular disney voice, he did professor ludwig von drake in "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" televison series and he voiced the auctioneer pirate in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction
Check out the book "Welcome Foolish Mortals;" it's a recent biography about Paul Frees. Paul Frees would do "pickups" for Orson Welles, quite often. Check out "Shogun;" credited to Orson Welles, but Paul Frees actually did most of the narration.
Hey, everyone, if you want to hear more of Paul Frees' voice and see him in some live acting, you should watch Howard Hawk's The Thing From Another World. He played Dr. Vorhees. You can't miss the voice. You can find the movie here on YT. Paul Frees was the best! ☺️❤️💔
He also has a small part in George Pal’s War Of The Worlds. He narrates the first intro and plays the role of the reporter/historian documenting the A bomb drop.
Some Rankin-Bass villains he's voiced include Burgermeister Meisterburger in "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town", Aeon the Terrible in "Rudolph's Shiny New Year", Winterbolt in "Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July" and Kubla Kraus in "Jack Frost" (1979).
love how the script writers assumed no one wanted to become one of the mansion's members and tried to make it scary but then there's me where i'd be like damn i'd love to be a ghost there that'd be so fun
This sounds like it was the takes that were not used on the ride. Editing on magnetic tape was done by cutting and taping lengths of tape together and when you were done you ended up with "remainders" reels with all the parts you didn't use. That explains the weird sounding edits.
Actually, Grammer has candidly admitted he models his performances after Orson Welles. And, back in the day, who do you think movies and their trailers went to for narration when Welles wasn't available? Frees, of course.
I would suggest that anyone offended by the "like giving whiskey to Indians" comment remember that first, this recording was made 50 years ago when the awareness level of people of European descent such as Mr. Frees was much different, and second, these recordings were not meant for public consumption. What we are hearing are his outtakes, by nature mistakes. He was making a private joke, and the stereotype at the time was that Native Americans were fond of alcohol, and he was enjoying his work, ha ha. Have you truly never believed a stereotype about a group of people, or expressed that stereotype in private (or public)? Or not believed a stereotype, but made a stupid joke about it in private?
"That's like giving whisky to an Indian" WTF!!!! is NOBODY gonna comment on that shit! I have a very dark sense of humor and lose it when he said that shit!!😂🤣😂
why is there 2 dislikes he is a great ghost host for the ride. dislikers are people the faint hearted people who hate disney world and the haunted mansion atraction
I see so many people saying that Kelsey grammar should've done the VoiceOver for the new one, or that Corey burton does a great impression. If there's one person that does the Paul Frees the best hands-down, it's his only son Fred Frees. The worst is Joe Leahy (newer safety spiels), it sounds like a cross between Kermit the frog and a very very sick Corey Burton. Fred, replace Corey in HMH holiday please!
Can you imagine how hilarious (and slightly confusing) this would be, when you first step in The Haunted Mansion, and Paul's outtakes were playing, instead of all the final takes? Once you step in, you then hear the opening spiel, not once but three times. lol
while Corey Burton does a good Paul Frees impression in HMH, I think they should have offered the job to Kelsey Grammer. the way he does "Sideshow Bob" would been an even closer Paul Frees immitation
Danny Eyheralde, Victor Raider-Wexler sounds even more like Paul Frees. The first time I heard him speak I was so shocked at the similarities in their two voices. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Raider-Wexler
Wow! A joke! There was a time when actual humor was allowed in this world! I agree, I too am offended. Let's dig this guy up, dust him off and CANCEL his ass on Twitter until Disney recasts the Ghost Host as Wanda Sykes .
I tell you what, i just watched something with James Coburn, and my god does he sound like Paul Frees. I think if Frees was never cast for this, Coburn would have made a terrific ghost host
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You know you've been on the ride enough times if you can recognize the final takes when you hear them.
And when you can actually recite them!
finster1968
When you can recite them before you can even talk adequately!
So true
I have a CD of this that a friend who works in Hollywood gave me almost 15 years ago (before it was uploaded here) and yes, I know the ride well enough to know what was kept, and what was tossed from this session.
@@lowbaritonewwj Care to dump it?
"God bless you, I didn't even want the money today." Imagine if that was heard in the ride
R.I.P. Paul Frees. You were the best voice actor ever. I can't wait to meet you in heaven someday.
or the mansion
Paul Frees had one of the best voices in American history, change my mind.
I thought he'd sound like a normal guy when not acting, but his voice actually sounds like that.
That’s what made this and K.A.R.R. so great. They were just slight variations on his everyday voice. As you can hear here when he speaks to the director: slow him down, enunciate every syllable and that’s both voices.
3:02 "Your cadaverous pallor betrays...PASTRALFINERUDEHFEHSTEBUNECATVAL"
That made me laugh uncontrollably.
Awesome transcription! LOL!
Me too lol!
i thought i was having a stroke while hearing that. lol "wait, what? is that... oh, okay, he screwed it up"
I wasn't even sure what the heck that was!
LoL
I would have him narrate my life. His voice is amazing and reminds me (fondly) of my childhood at Disney. :-D
Amazing how he still sounds like the Ghost Host when out of character. He would make a great party host on Halloween.
These recordings are 50 years old, and still in use at the various Disney theme parks in the U.S. I've never been to the parks in France or Asia so not sure if they used voices in the local languages or used Paul Frees.
He was a remarkable talent, lived in Marin County near San Francisco, and way before the technology made it easy, he had a studio installed in his home with high-quality phone lines that allowed him to perform at any major studio in San Francisco, New York or Hollywood without even driving across the Golden Gate Bridge.
I produced television commercials in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 80s, and while I had his demo tape in my office library, I never had occasion or the budget to book him for a job. So I never me the man, but talked to many others who had worked with him.
Notice he directs himself mostly. He knew when each take was a keeper or needed to be re-recorded. He only needed time cues from the producer. If he knew he had done a perfect take, and some 20 something newbie producer tried to direct him, he simply wouldn't do it and would educate the baby producer that Take 2 was perfect and no more takes were needed. "Let's move on . . .". Conversely, if he knew he could bring something better or different to the reading, he'd gladly do another take.
"The timing was good" said the producer, to which he replied "So was the reading".
"Have a little more fun with it" to which he replied "Stretch it you mean?"
The man knew he was good.
He was also the voice of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
More information about Paul Frees can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frees
Before all the changes to the POTC attraction, I used to say that you could count his voice in about 9 or 10 places.
Vincent Price voices the ghost host in Disneyland Paris then it was changed to a French voice actor that does the dub for Price's movies but was reverted back again. Tokyo Disneyland also uses a Japanese voice actor for the ghost host.
I could listen to his voice all day long. His voice is just absolutely amazing.
Omg hearing him speak in a like a normal voice sounds soo weird!!!
Hi Keke!
He had a perfect baritone speaking voice...amazing, how he could alter that masculine voice in many ways! He seems, in photos, to be a shorter guy...his voice does not match his visage.
Paul's narration is classic.
his voice just brings chills down my spine!
"Of course there's always.. my way... MWAHA!"
I’ll never forget being that wide-eyed six year old kid visiting the Haunted Mansion for the first time in the 1970’s. Paul’s voice accompanying those creepy portraits is unforgettable. How cool is it to listen to this masterpiece being created?
I refer to it as a look behind the curtain on this fantastic creative process. :)
Well put
Me too, I'm a bit older at age
57 in 2020 ....cheers
finster1968, absolutely!!
Frees' voice is burned into my imagination just from this one Disney attraction. Add SFX, appropriate music & stir --- man, that whole package was a masterpiece - so well done! (Even his safety precautions are harrowing --- "Muwahh-hah-hah-haaaaa...!")
Yep! When they started to stretch is when I started to really worry. Also, was six years old, and it made such an impression on me that when I heard him I started to cry when we went again at 15. :-D
Now I'm a voice actor, and this is #goals
The Haunted Mansion is such a great attraction. Paul's voice is perfect for the ride.
his voice is amazing
This is great... you can also hear the voice of X Atencio, the imagineer who wrote the script for the ride, on this recording.
And Marc Davis, at the mixing board.
MAN, what a voice!
The song "Grim Grinning Ghosts" was sung by the inimitable Thurl Ravenscroft, who also voiced the iconic Tony the Tiger ("They're Grrrreat!")
Thurl Ravenscroft also was the vastly-superior narrator to every other one that the Disneyland Railroad has had.
He also sang the famous Grinch song “You’re a mean one Mr. Grinch,” and he did it in only one take.
Thurl also lent his voice to a couple Disney films too. He was one of the singing cards in Alice in Wonderland, some of the singing pound dogs in Lady and the Tramp, and Captain the horse in 101 Dalmatians
What a awesome voice!! If you grew up in the 1960's and 1970's. You definitely remember hearing Paul Frees voice in cartoons and commercials.
rodneywashington51, and movie narrations & even a few live movie and TV roles.
I joke that Paul was inescapable at this time.
He had so many roles, from his days in radio, to cartoon voices to movies (war of the worlds, St Valentines Day Massacre ect) to the 2nd incarnation of K.A.R.R. in knight rider
Especially if your a frequent watcher of the Rankin/Bass holiday specials. His voice for both Burgermeister Meister Burger and Grimsley in Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town is the most recognizable and shows off his impressive vocal range.
Paul’s voice alone sends shivers down your spine. I listened to another version of the Ghost Host. Played by the none other than the legendary Vincent Price! Both are awesome to hear.
For me he will always be the voice of the Inner space ride by Monsanto in Tomorrowland.
This is really cool. You can find ANYTHING on youtube.
Take 2 was great and dude in the control room had the nerve to say "he's a half second over". ! What he SHOULD have said was, GREAT TAKE, PERFECT. Let's move on to the next one.
No, because the next take was the BEST one and the one we all hear.
@@JOHNNYBIX38 ZOOOM. entire point flew over your head.
TruthSurge no it didn’t, I know what you meant, but the final take just had IT. That intonation that makes it magical & just perfect. Like Atencio told him: “make it more breathy-like”. And wouldn’t you know it, an iconic spiel forever. The others were timed OK but didn’t have that special quality the final one does. The second one that was a second over seemed forced with a mixture of normal & forcibly deep intonations, plus unnecessary pauses between certain words. The final one, the one chosen is not only read but “acted out”. The final result was just perfection. There’s a good reason the imagineers chose that particular one. I think THIS may have zoomed over your head.
@@JOHNNYBIX38 thats because each segment has to be timed in a certain way and sometimes theu don't have wiggle room so He was not critiquing the proformace more so letting him know he may have to change the speed of his cadence if they can't use that take. To which another Imaginer lets them know its usable
@@devinaschenbrenner2683 Agreed, but by sheer luck or fate, the final take turned out to sound the best. It just flows more naturally and has the best intonation. The others, regardless of timing, sound forced and unnatural. So in the end, everything worked out for the best, the timing, the voice, the inflection. Notice how he doesn't pause between some words, like in the other two or goes from deep to a bit higher. In the final take, it all just flows perfectly, even the way he says some of the words, such as death STILL - and actually cuts off the word and shortens it to emphasize the stillness. The word DELIGHT is actually also pronounced with a joyous delightful tone. I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying, but he literally acts out each phrase and word accordingly, with just the right amount of pitch and resonance. All in all, the imagineers did a brilliant job of picking just the right takes and Paul Frees gave them great choices but it all turned out perfectly in the end.
Paul Frees really fits the Ghost Host. Today, we have Corey Burton doing him proud.
As a voice actor myself, I just dread words that end with "st" and are also plural. :21 Just awkward no matter WHO says it.
I realize I am quite off topic but do anybody know a good place to stream new movies online ?
His voice is iconic. It makes the ride especially creepy. I cannot imagine the Haunted Mansion without it.
Only Frees could bang out this ride's narration perfectly in one take. Most of the multiple takes were for slight time overages or coverage. His variety of intonations he brought to the Ghost Host couldn't be matched in the industry--and would be very difficult to parallel now.
Corey Burton says hello. Ditto for Paul's son, Fred, who can replicate his dad as well.
Listen to the current Ghost Host Corey Burton
this is terrific sound quality
I feel like it would be a cool idea if Disney reused some of these takes and randomly use them in parts of the ride, so like when he says “Welcome foolish mortals, to the Haunted Mansion.” Sometimes it would be ripped from a different take. I feel like it could add a little bit of life (how ironic) to him.
Paul frees was another popular disney voice, he did professor ludwig von drake in "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" televison series and he voiced the auctioneer pirate in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction
I used to count his voice about 10 times.
Interesting outtakes. I loved hearing them.
TheXtro101 Vincent Price did the English narration for Phantom Manor. The original Haunted Mansion (both in CA and FL) is narrated by Paul Frees.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhh.
Check out the book "Welcome Foolish Mortals;" it's a recent biography about Paul Frees. Paul Frees would do "pickups" for Orson Welles, quite often. Check out "Shogun;" credited to Orson Welles, but Paul Frees actually did most of the narration.
And don't forget the second edition, released about 10 years later.
This brings another narration recording to mind...
"Get me a jury and show me how you can say 'IN July.'" #YesAlways
"And I'll..."
@m2sciarra Paul does many voices in "Pirates of the Caribbean," although the auctioneer is definitely my favorite.
Fred Frees (Paul's only son) does the best Frees impression.
Paul Frees is my spirit Animal!
1st saw & heard the Great Paul Frees in 1951's The Thing! Paul & Sterling Holloway were your unsung heros @ Disney
brilliant. just brilliant.
That is the time you know this guy has a awesome voice!
Used recordings can be heard at:
1:56
6:26
7:49
8:50
It's cool because you can just tell! I love listening to this!!
him talking normally sounds wierd
Hey, everyone, if you want to hear more of Paul Frees' voice and see him in some live acting, you should watch Howard Hawk's The Thing From Another World. He played Dr. Vorhees. You can't miss the voice. You can find the movie here on YT. Paul Frees was the best! ☺️❤️💔
He also has a small part in George Pal’s War Of The Worlds. He narrates the first intro and plays the role of the reporter/historian documenting the A bomb drop.
And he is all over the Frank Sinatra film "Suddenly" playing one of Frank's henchman, with a million dollar voice. :)
THIS
IS
AWESOME
Paul Frees did voices for many animated features in the 60s and 70s, Rankin and Bass, Disney, Hanna and Barbara.
Some Rankin-Bass villains he's voiced include Burgermeister Meisterburger in "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town", Aeon the Terrible in "Rudolph's Shiny New Year", Winterbolt in "Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July" and Kubla Kraus in "Jack Frost" (1979).
Rocky and Bullwinkle
What a great voice.
love how the script writers assumed no one wanted to become one of the mansion's members and tried to make it scary but then there's me where i'd be like damn i'd love to be a ghost there that'd be so fun
I love hearing all of this! Take after take and even hearing X makes it great.
It gives me chills even till this day
Imagine you walk into the haunted mansion and here this 3:11 or this 3:02
4:50 when your trying to rob a house and you laugh but you cup your hands over your mouth
Please make sure Disney never finds this, they'll take it down for sure.
Imagine if the first audio recording of his first attempts were in the haunted mansion!
I’ve noticed that there are some parts missing in the middle, particularly my favorite part, “Enda da dour, yeah.”
I think he really could have been a good James Bond Villian
So glad the guys had him do the first line one last time...cause that was the final cut.
"While you're rolling, let me do assorted laughs." Now there's a sentence my brain has never thought to form.😂😂😂
This is absolutely beautiful ! Thank you so much for posting these videos !!!!!!!!!!!
I have this CD from Disneyland but it's great to just pull it up on TH-cam :)
His laugh is just perfect.
This sounds like it was the takes that were not used on the ride. Editing on magnetic tape was done by cutting and taping lengths of tape together and when you were done you ended up with "remainders" reels with all the parts you didn't use. That explains the weird sounding edits.
Actually, Grammer has candidly admitted he models his performances after Orson Welles.
And, back in the day, who do you think movies and their trailers went to for narration when Welles wasn't available? Frees, of course.
oh my goodness, I want his voice.
Like giving Whiskey to an Indian!?!😂😂😂
The California Bruh Yeah, that hasn’t aged very well.
@@AlasdairGR Humor hasn't aged well?
Back then, men weren't a bunch of whiney snowflakes.
@@volman5033 what the fuck dude you basically just said that you miss when it was acceptable to be racist
he made this ride...what a voice...this is amazing...
that voice is simply fabulous, and quite familiar..
I would suggest that anyone offended by the "like giving whiskey to Indians" comment remember that first, this recording was made 50 years ago when the awareness level of people of European descent such as Mr. Frees was much different, and second, these recordings were not meant for public consumption. What we are hearing are his outtakes, by nature mistakes. He was making a private joke, and the stereotype at the time was that Native Americans were fond of alcohol, and he was enjoying his work, ha ha. Have you truly never believed a stereotype about a group of people, or expressed that stereotype in private (or public)? Or not believed a stereotype, but made a stupid joke about it in private?
Euthymia, well, I'm1/4 Cherokee Native American and I wasn't offended by his joke. ☺️
I miss Paul Frees so much that I imagine he is actually haunting the mansion as an actual spirit when riding
RIP Paul Frees..... wait.... since he’s dead is he actually haunting the mansion??????
Wouldn't that be amazing!!!
Well Frees died by suicide and you see the corpse of the Ghost Host hanging on a noose from the ceiling of the stretching room
@@danielandlucycartoonsmadne5885 you just blew my mind!!
Of course, he’s the Ghost Host!
"That's like giving whisky to an Indian" WTF!!!! is NOBODY gonna comment on that shit! I have a very dark sense of humor and lose it when he said that shit!!😂🤣😂
His talking voice???? WHAT???? I think I'm in love
why is there 2 dislikes he is a great ghost host for the ride. dislikers are people the faint hearted people who hate disney world and the haunted mansion atraction
0:39 - 0:53 Love it.
Paul Frees is AMAZING!!!! I'm his #1 fan! (I am not kidding.)
Can I just say I love how fucking smug Paul is about his readings hahaha
This was the great voice of the late Paul Frees,great voice actor,and actor,who appeared,in the movie some like it hot,as Mr.Mozzeralla.
martin matsil, sorry, but Tito Vuolo was Mr. Mozzarella. Paul was the funeral director and a waiter in SLIH.
@@annacronism he overdubbed mozzarella and Tony curtis as josephine
That is a paycheck well-earned.
I see so many people saying that Kelsey grammar should've done the VoiceOver for the new one, or that Corey burton does a great impression. If there's one person that does the Paul Frees the best hands-down, it's his only son Fred Frees. The worst is Joe Leahy (newer safety spiels), it sounds like a cross between Kermit the frog and a very very sick Corey Burton. Fred, replace Corey in HMH holiday please!
I second that!
Fred is a friend. :)
Thank you so much for posting this!!
Paul Frees' speaking voice kinda sounds like Orson Welles.
This is so interesting and his voice is amazing allso creepy
Can you imagine how hilarious (and slightly confusing) this would be, when you first step in The Haunted Mansion, and Paul's outtakes were playing, instead of all the final takes?
Once you step in, you then hear the opening spiel, not once but three times. lol
Creepy!!
Just like your profile picture
he was having a whiskey while recording this?!? I knew I loved this ride!!!!!!
while Corey Burton does a good Paul Frees impression in HMH, I think they should have offered the job to Kelsey Grammer. the way he does "Sideshow Bob" would been an even closer Paul Frees immitation
Danny Eyheralde, Victor Raider-Wexler sounds even more like Paul Frees. The first time I heard him speak I was so shocked at the similarities in their two voices. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Raider-Wexler
@SirHatchporch yeah he also did the exhausted pirate before he got changed up and was
voiced by Corey Burton
Extremely cool.
This was where I started to cry when I was 6. :-D
So great
Wow awesome we used to have this on Vynel back in the day
Are we all going to ignore that he said “that’s like giving whiskey to an Indian.”
Just incredible tone and body in his voice. That’s what Camel unfiltered cigarettes and whiskey can do.
He's doing a " Vincent Price" here. He was one of the greatest voice actors.
Whiskey to an Indian! Wow!
Wow! A joke! There was a time when actual humor was allowed in this world! I agree, I too am offended. Let's dig this guy up, dust him off and CANCEL his ass on Twitter until Disney recasts the Ghost Host as Wanda Sykes
.
Johnny Snowball He's also Boris Badenov in The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.
ooook.
That was awesome...he always talks like that...
Fabulous
13:34 "Priceless First Ndndndndndddohhh yeah".
I tell you what, i just watched something with James Coburn, and my god does he sound like Paul Frees. I think if Frees was never cast for this, Coburn would have made a terrific ghost host