Joaquin Garay | |
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Born | |
Died | September 13, 1990 78) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged
Occupation(s) | Actor and singer |
Known for | Voicing Panchito Pistoles |
Notable work | The Three Caballeros |
Children | 4, including Val and Joaquin III |
Joaquin Garay (November 15, 1911 – September 13, 1990) was a Mexican actor and singer. He was known for voicing Panchito Pistoles in the 1944 Walt Disney film The Three Caballeros .
Born in El Oro, Mexico, Garay came to America at eleven months. He was a well-known radio performer in the 1940s, and opened the popular Copacabana nightclub in September 1941, which was frequented by visiting Hollywood celebrities. He hosted shows in the nightclub and performed in vaudeville, and recorded an album in the mid-40s, "A Night at Joaquin Garay's Copacabana". [1]
Garay voiced the Mexican rooster Panchito in 1944, teaming up with Clarence Nash as Donald Duck and José Oliveira as José Carioca to sing The Three Caballeros' title song. However, after recording, Garay's speaking voice as Panchito was found to be wanting:
Garay had a fine singing voice and was technically a native of Mexico, but he had spent nearly all of his life in the United States, and to an experienced ear his accent and phrasing just did not sound convincingly Mexican. Jack Cutting, who was still the studio's resident "foreign expert", noted the problem as early as February 1944 when he heard the earliest recordings: "The Garay rendition of the song ['The Three Caballeros]' is excellent, but do not care for his handling of the narration back of 'Las Posadas'. It sounds as though he is striving too much for a Mexican accent. It seems artificial and the tone and tempo of the narration is out of keeping with the pictures and music of the sequence." [2]
Cutting hired a Mexican actor, Felipe Turich, to be Garay's vocal coach, but for the Mexican Spanish-language version of the film, Cutting decided to simply use Turich as Panchito's speaking voice, with Garay singing. [2] Turich also replaced Gary as Panchito in the Italian-language version of the film, [3] but only for the speaking parts, as Panchito's singing is taken from the Mexican Spanish dub.
However, Garay returned to Disney in 1953 to voice the Narrator and the other characters in a Goofy short, For Whom the Bulls Toil . [4]
In the 1950s, Garay appeared in the films Crisis (1950) Saddle Tramp (1950), Lightning Strikes Twice (1951), Fast Company (1953) and Latin Lovers (1953). [4] He also had a small part in an episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ,"Lucy Goes to Mexico", in 1958. He later moved to Los Angeles.
In the 1970s, Garay appeared on television in the TV-movies Red Sky at Morning (1971) and The Gun (1974), and in the shows Sanford and Son ("Pops 'n' Pals", 1973) and Mannix ("Bird of Prey", 1975).
Garay has four children: Grammy Award-winning record producer and audio engineer Val Garay, actor and writer Ricky Garay, actress Linda Garay, and actor Joaquin Garay III [5] who, like his father, also appeared in a Disney film, 1980's Herbie Goes Bananas . [6]
José "Zé" Carioca is a cartoon anthropomorphic parrot created by the Brazilian cartoonist José Carlos de Brito and shown to Walt Disney on his trip to Rio de Janeiro in 1941. The Walt Disney Company then incorporated the idea, being introduced in the 1942 film Saludos Amigos as a friend of Donald Duck, described by Time as "a dapper Brazilian parrot, who is as superior to Donald Duck as the Duck was to Mickey Mouse." He speaks Portuguese. He returned in the 1944 film The Three Caballeros along with Donald and a Mexican rooster named Panchito Pistoles. José is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Saludos Amigos is a 1942 American live-action/animated propaganda anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Set in Latin America, it is made up of four different segments; Donald Duck stars in two of them and Goofy stars in one. It also features the first appearance of José Carioca, the malandro Brazilian parrot. Saludos Amigos premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943.
The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American live-action and animated musical propaganda anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944. It was released in the United States on February 3, 1945 and in the United Kingdom in March 1945. It marks the tenth anniversary of Donald Duck and plots an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and animation. This is the second of the six package films released by Walt Disney Productions in the 1940s, following Saludos Amigos (1942). It is also notable for being one of the first feature-length films to incorporate traditional animation with live-action actors.
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room is an attraction located in Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort and in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, and previously in Tokyo Disneyland at Tokyo Disney Resort. First opened on June 23, 1963 at the Disneyland Resort, the attraction is a pseudo-Polynesian musical Audio-Animatronic show drawing from American tiki culture.
Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft was an American actor and bass singer. He was well known as one of the booming voices behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades. He was also the uncredited vocalist for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the classic Christmas television special Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Fortunio Bonanova, pseudonym of Josep Lluís Moll, was a Spanish baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor. He occasionally worked as a producer and director.
Hans Georg Conried Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He was known for providing the voices of George Darling and Captain Hook in Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953), Snidely Whiplash in Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right cartoons, Professor Waldo P. Wigglesworth in Ward's Hoppity Hooper cartoons, was host of Ward's live-action "Fractured Flickers" show and Professor Kropotkin on the radio and film versions of My Friend Irma. He also appeared as Uncle Tonoose on Danny Thomas' sitcom Make Room for Daddy, twice on I Love Lucy, and as the Mad Hatter along with Daws Butler, Dolores Starr, Stanley Adams, Francis Condie Baxter and Cheryl Callaway in The Alphabet Conspiracy (1959).
Rex Elvie Allen Sr., known as "the Arizona Cowboy", was an American film and television actor, singer and songwriter; he was also the narrator of many Disney nature and Western productions. For his contributions to the film industry, Allen received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1975, located at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard.
Panchito Pistoles is a cartoon anthropomorphic rooster created by Fred Moore. He first appeared in the 1944 Disney film The Three Caballeros with his friends Donald Duck and José Carioca. He later appeared in several Disney comics, including a year-long run in the Silly Symphony Sunday comic strip (1944–1945) as well as Don Rosa's comic book stories The Three Caballeros Ride Again (2000) and The Magnificent Seven Caballeros (2005). He speaks Spanish with a Mexican accent.
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Mickey Mouse Disco is an album released by Disneyland Records in 1979. A late entry in the genre of disco, Mickey Mouse Disco included disco versions of Disney songs and Disney-fied versions of disco hits. The album was re-released on CD in 1995, and later as a download. On April 13, 2019, in honor of the album's 40th anniversary, the original LP was reissued for the annual Record Store Day.
Joaquin Garay III is an American former child actor. He is best known for playing the role of Paco in Herbie Goes Bananas.
The Mickey Mouse Revue was an indoor audio-animatronic stage show at the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland theme parks. It was one of the three original opening day attractions in Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland in 1971. After closing at Magic Kingdom in 1980, it was moved to Tokyo Disneyland for that park's opening in 1983 where it remained for 26 years before closing permanently in 2009.
William Jesse Shirley was an American actor and tenor/lyric baritone singer who later became a Broadway theatre producer. He is perhaps best known as the speaking and singing voice of Prince Phillip in Walt Disney's 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty and for dubbing Jeremy Brett's singing voice in the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady.
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Once Upon a Mouse is a 1981 American theatrical featurette directed by Jerry Kramer and Gary Rocklen of Kramer/Rocklen Studios, produced in association with Walt Disney Productions. It was released on July 10, 1981 on a double bill with The Fox and the Hound.
Legend of the Three Caballeros is a 2018 animated television series based on the 1944 animated Disney film The Three Caballeros, but depicted as a spin-off of the 2017 DuckTales reboot. As with the original film, the series features the characters Donald Duck, José Carioca, and Panchito Pistoles.
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Events in 1911 in animation.