Pop culture roundup: Ringo Starr! Mad Monster Party! Mel Blanc!

All he has is a photograph: Ringo Starr is hoping to identify this carload of fans, whose photo he snapped out a limousine window while touring the U.S. with the Beatles back in 1964. The snap is included in Ringo's new e-book "Photograph" and also will appear in a high-priced collectible version of the tome from Genesis Publications.


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Ringo's got another book to plug, too:





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Read the Mad Monster Party comic book!




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Via BoingBoing: Download more than 40 episodes of the great Mel Blanc's old time radio show!
Mel Blanc's success on The Jack Benny Program led to his own radio show on the CBS Radio Network, The Mel Blanc Show, which ran from September 3, 1946 to June 24, 1947. Blanc played himself as the hapless owner of a fix-it shop, as well as a wide range of comical support characters.

Other regular characters were played by Mary Jane Croft, Joseph Kearns, Hans Conreid, Alan Reed, Earle Ross, Jim Backus, Bea Benaderet and The Sportsmen Quartet, who would supply a song and sing the Colgate Tooth Powder commercials.

For 50 years, Mel Blanc was the voice of many popular cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, The Tasmanian Devil, Pepe LePew, Marvin the Martian, the RoadRunner ("Meep, meep!"), Barney Rubble, and Woody Woodpecker.

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