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Thurl Ravenscroft, the man who was the voice of Tony the Tiger and who even stole the show from Boris Karloff in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, died this week at the age of 91. He had a bass voice that, as my old man used to say, went so low that when he exhaled you could smell his feet. Ravenscroft worked on kids' records in the '50s, Disney animated features, and, as I mentioned, even upstaged narrator Boris Karloff with his song, "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch." (There is actually a short documentary about that tune called Songs in the Key of Grinch, and Ravenscroft is even interviewed in it.)

Here's a nice website called All Things Thurl that includes many soundclips of his work. Needless to say, they're grrrrrreat.