Doggie Daddy Tells Augie Doggie the Story of Pinocchio

So with it being Father's Day why not look at Hanna-Barbera's father and son duo Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy. These characters started as a segment on my favorite Hanna-Barbera TV show, The Quickdraw McGraw Show (1959-1962). They would have a long career for Hanna-Barbera also appearing in the TV shows, Laff-A-Lympics (1977-1978) and Yogi's Gang (1973). They would also appear in some of the studio's made for TV movies, like Yogi's First Christmas (1980) and Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987). They also appeared in record albums. 

In the 1960's plenty of record albums were made with the Hanna-Barbera characters. An often used plot for these was to have one character tell another a famous fairy tale story. The album we are looking at today involves Doggie Daddy telling Augie Doggie the story of Pinocchio. Though this record replaces the fox and the cat with Fibber Fox (From the Yakky Doodle segment on the Yogi Bear Show (1961-1962)) and Jinks (from the Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks segment from The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-1962)) and we have Drop Out Land instead of The Land of Toys (Pleasure Island in the Disney film), this record is remarkable close at times to the book. Naturally some of the darker elements were left out and other things were omitted for time. Still what is here stays as close to the book as can come from a record like this. 

This record is from 1965. It features Daws Butler (the original voice of Augie Doggie, Mr. Jinks and Fibber Fox) doing all the voices except for Pinocchio (who is voiced by Dick Beals, who voiced Ralph Phillips in the classic Chuck Jones cartoons) and the fairy (who is voiced by Janet Waldo, the voice of Judy Jetson and Penelope Pitstop). By the way is it just me or does Daws Butler's Geppetto voice sound like Mario? The songs were written by Peggy Shows and Lyn Bryson, who often wrote songs for these Hanna-Barbera records. 



-Michael J. Ruhland