- RT @irisamelia: @savvy_a I LOVE THAT MOVIE. “In the Dark of the Night” is a great song. (Woo hoo Christopher Lloyd/Jim Cummings!) #
- RT @jamiepogue: Jim Cummings is also awesome. Check out that list of titles on IMDB! http://tinyurl.com/czllr3 What a recognizable voice. #
- I told my brother (and former Jim Cummings site partner) about the Louis/Jungle Book thing & it put him into a hilarious rage over it.
# - Jim Cummings’ performance as Darkwing Duck is noticeably lower-pitched and less hyper in earlier episodes. http://tinyurl.com/adoq7c #
Archive for March, 2009
- The 6 Best Disney Villain Songs http://tinyurl.com/b8v2mx (Jim Cummings makes it on the list with Be Prepared) #
- @wefollow #celebrity #entertainment #actor #
- RT @visualmadness Pooh, Darkwing Duck, Shredder & Bonkers were voiced by the same guy? Jim Cummings is officially the best voice actor EVER. #
- Jim Cummings sings the Extreme Ghostbusters theme! http://tinyurl.com/dj5sk5 #
Here is a fun little tidbit that I, for one, didn’t know.
In the original Disney movie, The Jungle Book, King Louie was a Disney invention as he was not in the original book. He was played by jazz singer Louis Prima.
After Prima’s death, the character of Louie, as we fans know, was taken over by Jim Cummings who played him in TaleSpin and other projects.
But here is the part that I didn’t know until recently. Jim Cummings’ performance and impression of Louis Prima’s voice was good, so good in fact that Louis Prima’s widow sued Disney for unauthorized use of her husband’s voice. Now, of course, Disney wasn’t using her husband’s voice but rather Jim Cummings’ voice and the matter was settled out of court. But in deference to this, King Louie has not appeared in any future projects including The Jungle Book 2 or House of Mouse
So King Louie fans won’t get any new content from that character because, darn him, Jim Cummings was just too good!
- Interview with Frank Welker where he talks about living minutes from Jim Cummings & Rob Paulson http://tinyurl.com/c4uwt7 #
- Walt Disney Pictures has moved up the release of The Princess and the Frog. It will open on Nov 25 before expanding nationwide on Dec 11. #
- Part two of the Frank Welker interview is up (mentions Jim Cummings again) http://tinyurl.com/devzy5 #
