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Obit: Alan Livingston, 91 - Created Bozo the Clown

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He died of "age-related causes" in Beverly Hills CA, according to his step-daughter.

As the president of Capitol Records, he also signed Frank Sinatra (at the low point of his career in the early '50s), the Beach Boys, and (eventually) the Beatles, to recording contracts, among many others. It took him almost a year for EMI (Capitol's major stockholder) and Brian Epstein to convince Livingston that the Beatles were worth it. Their 1963 singles were released on Vee-Jay and Swan, rather than Capitol.

He created Bozo in 1946 after first being hired by then-new Capitol, and later hired a Goofy guy named Pinto Colvig to be the first voice of Bozo on the records. IIRC, Colvig was also the first person to play Bozo on TV. Livingston also wrote and produced records featuring Woody Woodpecker and various other cartoon characters.

Link: Chicago Tribune
 
KeithE4 said:
He died of "age-related causes" in Beverly Hills CA, according to his step-daughter.

As the president of Capitol Records, he also signed Frank Sinatra (at the low point of his career in the early '50s), the Beach Boys, and (eventually) the Beatles, to recording contracts, among many others. It took him almost a year for EMI (Capitol's major stockholder) and Brian Epstein to convince Livingston that the Beatles were worth it. Their 1963 singles were released on Vee-Jay and Swan, rather than Capitol.

He created Bozo in 1946 after first being hired by then-new Capitol, and later hired a Goofy guy named Pinto Colvig to be the first voice of Bozo on the records. IIRC, Colvig was also the first person to play Bozo on TV. Livingston also wrote and produced records featuring Woody Woodpecker and various other cartoon characters.

Link: Chicago Tribune
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IIRC, Pinto Colvig also worked for Disney......OK...cute play on words...."Goofy guy"....FWIW, Colvig was also the voice of Goofy- and the bark of Pluto.....did a lot of voiceover work...
 
he may be gone, but you can take comfort in knowing there are still plenty of "BOZO'S" around, they're running Radio Stations all across AMERICA!
 
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