'I gathered this information from Wikipedia, so if it's wrong..... "The Looney Tunes Golden Collection unequivocally credits the vocals to Bill Roberts, a nightclub entertainer in Los Angeles in the 1950s who had done voice work for an MGM cartoon earlier."
I loved this character from the first time I saw the cartoon, I was three. I didn't know until I was older that this was his one and only cartoon and that he never even made a cameo in any of the other Looney Tunes cartoons.
I started collecting him as early as I could find his image in stuffed toys, pins, etc. My sister ran across a collectors plate with a copy of one of the cartoon cells and bought it for me. When I first started collecting 'him' most people didn't know who he was. It was just my totally engrossed obsession with the character that made me aware of him.
As a side note, I started collecting all kinds of frogs - live, prints, statues, cartoons, etc. at an early age, so this may be why I became attached to Michigan. I have a huge collection of the little critters because I became associated with frogs and everyone knew they could buy me a frog something and the present would go over well. I have actually bought very few of these items myself. To my amazement, in these years, there has never been a duplicate. Think of the odds.
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Posted by: Don Markstein
Posted on: 2008-01-04 at 06:32:36 PM
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My husband-in-law (i.e., wife's first husband) collects frogs the same way. I collect ducks, and have the things all over my office. Can't say I have no duplicates at all, but there sure are a lot of different ones! (Somebody suggested I do a series of blog entries on especially good ones, but I can't see a whole lot of people being interested.)
Quack, Don
Quack, Don
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Posted by: Don Markstein
Posted on: 2008-01-04 at 06:38:17 PM
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Oh yeah -- Michigan. If anybody has authoritative info on who did the voice, I haven't found him, and I've asked some very knowledgeable people. To my own untrained ear, it could easily be Thurl Ravenscroft (Tony the Tiger, "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch"), but he definitely isn't it.
It's my understanding that they just asked the music people at Warner to send over a baritone, and nobody remembers who it was. I'd like to know how any Wikipedia writer dug up the info.
Quack, Don
It's my understanding that they just asked the music people at Warner to send over a baritone, and nobody remembers who it was. I'd like to know how any Wikipedia writer dug up the info.
Quack, Don
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Posted by: ribbit
Posted on: 2008-03-23 at 11:02:29 AM
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I have a wrist watch purchased at the defunct Montgomery Wards around 1992. I have tried to find another like or similar to it. It has a picture of Michigan J. Frog on the face. Would anyone know how I could get another one. The one I have has stopped working and not because of the battery.
Thank you, Ribbit
Thank you, Ribbit
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Posted by: Chuck Taine
Posted on: 2008-03-23 at 11:46:13 AM
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Gee;
If the WB network had managed to survive on it's on, just think how much more material would be out there. 'Cause, if only briefly, Michigan was the mascot of the WB.
If the WB network had managed to survive on it's on, just think how much more material would be out there. 'Cause, if only briefly, Michigan was the mascot of the WB.
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Posted by: Don Markstein
Posted on: 2008-03-24 at 04:14:08 AM
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Michigan J. Frog was not the mascot of the WB network. They drew a look-alike to stand in for him. How do I know? Everybody knows. Michigan J. Frog does not perform before an audience.
And Ribbit, I wish I could help. My only two suggestions (eBay, and transfer the face to a new watch) seem kind of lame. Sorry.
Quack, Don
And Ribbit, I wish I could help. My only two suggestions (eBay, and transfer the face to a new watch) seem kind of lame. Sorry.
Quack, Don











