Daws Butler Radio Interviews

 Our week-long celebration of the life and work of Daws Butler officially starts today with not one, but two radio interviews! I'm not sure how many of you have seen these prior, but their view count on Youtube is pretty low, so I thought they were worth sharing here.

The first one is from 1986 and features Daws being interviewed by Larry King, alongside other radio veterans Parley Baer and Les Tremayne. Those two names weren't as prolific in cartoon voice acting as Daws was, but they did have a few animation credits to their names. Baer was the second voice of Ernie the Keebler elf, succeeding Walker Edmiston, while Tremayne was featured in the Pogo Special Birthday Special and Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island. Here, the trio reminisces primarily on their days on radio, a period in Daws' career that from what I can recall he always held in high esteem.

This one is from a year earlier and features Daws on his own being interviewed by Ken Benhrens of WJBC AM. This one focuses a lot more on Daws' work in animation, especially the work he did for Hanna-Barbera. Check it out below!