Zero Mostel - How The Grinch Stole Christmas
When the animated special for Dr. Suess' " How The Grinch Stole Christmas " first aired in 1966, it so quickly became identified with its narrator ( Boris Karloff ), its musical score (written by Albert Hague and the main song sung by Thurl Ravenscroft ), and its animation director ( Chuck Jones ). Several have tried to recreate the magic of Suess's Grinch - ask Jim Carrey and Ron Howard. Few have come close to duplicating it - ask Jim Carrey and Ron Howard. So when this album was first posted at Way Out Junk (their first Christmas LP post ever) on December 1, 2006, it took me several days to track it down. When I eventually secured my copy on December 4, 2006 at 8:14 PM, I was floored. Samuel Joel Mostel was born in 1915 and raised in Brooklyn with his family. His first love was art; quickly developed an eye for painting and drawing. As a teen, Mostel would go to museums and sketched near perfect replicas of paintings, always to a group of onlookers. H...