Starting around Thanksgiving, one can hardly run an errand or ride an elevator without being serenaded by Christmas music. The songs cover familiar seasonal territory—silver bells, open sleighs, ...

The goofy, spoofy radio commercials of Stan Freberg have moved a lot of Chun King Chinese food and Contadina tomato paste (“Eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?”) into the stomachs of ...

The first time I was exposed to the work of Stan Freberg was when some prankster in my middle school played his famous soap opera parody “John and Marsha” over the public address system during class.

He lampooned cultural institutions in commercials, had hit radio shows and records and voiced many popular Looney Tunes cartoons at Warner Bros. By Duane Byrge Stan Freberg, whose freewheeling comic ...