He began as the voice actor inside a total of old-time radio shows and within animation as well. At a age of 18, he wwhen cast as a voice of Junyer Bear around Chuck Jones' 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon ''What's Brewin', Bruin?'', featuring Jones' version of The Three Bears. He typically obtained himself pair by owning Mel Blanc while at Warners, where them men performed such pairs when a Goofy Gophers, Hubie and Bertie, and Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier. Freberg too worked for Walt Disney Productions as a voice actor for films such as Lady and the Tramp (1955),

In the period of 1950-1955, he and frequent collaborator Daws Butler provided voices on Time forBeanie, an early puppet version of characters created by Bob Clampett who are better known in their late alive incarnation, Beany and Cecil.

Throughout a 1950s he made the title for himself writing & performing each original songs ("Television") & parodies of popular tunes ("The Yellow Rose of Texas", "Day-O", "Heartbreak Hotel") and radio shows (John and Marsha, St. George and the Dragon-Net, the latter with Butler).

Freberg's popularity landed him his have program, The Stan Freberg Show, on CBS Radio in 1957. a indicate failed to attract a sponsor, yet, at least within a share because Freberg did non are associated using the tobacco companies who experienced sponsored Jack Benny, whose time slot he inherited. Around position of actual advertisements, Freberg mocked commercials in the main by "advertising" such products when "Puffed Grass" ("It's good for Bossie, it's good for me and you!"), "Food" ("If you haven't any teeth you can gum your food with your gum, gum, gummy-gum gum"), & himself ("Freberg — the foaming comedian! Bobba bobba bom bom bom" — the parody of a easily-known Ajax laundry detergent commercial). the deficiency of sponsorship forced a cancellation of the indicate when a start of merely 15 episodes.

A radio indicate is best known for a bit where, through the magic of sound effects, Freberg drained Lake Michigan & refilled it with hot chocolate, whipped cream, and the cherry, locution, "Let's see them do that on television!"

An additional sketch from either a CBS radio indicate, entitled Elderly Man River, anticipated a Political Correctness movement by decades. Daws Butler plays "Mr. Tweedly," the representative of the fabricated citizens' radio read board, world health organization constantly interrupts Freberg by owning the aloud buzzer when Freberg tries to sing "Old Man River," accompanied per orchestra of his longtime collaborator Billy May. Tweedly objects foremost to the nominal word "Old", "which some of our more elderly citizens find distasteful." Following, a song's lyrics come increasingly & painfully distorted when Freberg struggles to turn the classic song into a form which Tweedly may locate acceptable "to the tiny tots" listening home: "He don't, er, doesn't plant 'taters, er, potatoes/he doesn't pick cotten, er, cotting/and them-these-those that plants them is soon forgotting," a lyric of which Freberg is particularly majestic. Potentially whilst a censor finds Freberg's intrigue acceptable, a constant interruption at last will bring a song to a grinding prevent, furnishing a lesson & the laugh line of the sketch at it used to be that.

Freberg too tackled political issues of the day. E.g., a single extended sketch parallelled a Cold War gamesmanship between the USA and the Soviet Union by portraying an ever-escalating public relations battle between a El Sodom & the Rancho Gomorrah, deuce casinos in the city of Los Voraces (Spanish for "The Greedy Ones" -- the thinly-disguised Las Vegas). A sketch terminates by using a ultimate holidaymaker attraction, a Hydrogen Bomb, which turns Los Voraces into a barren barren. (Network pressure forced Freberg to dislodge a information to the fusion bomb & kill them cities sustaining an earthquake instead. A version of "Incident at Los Voraces" freed later Capitol Records contains a original ending.)

Freberg continued to skewer a advertising industry when a dying of his indicate, producing Green Chri$tma$ in 1959 (again sustaining Butler), the vituperative indictment of the overcommercialization of the holiday. Freberg, the boy of a church minister & super religious himself, processed certainly to point out on it novelty record "Whose birthday we're celebrating."

Green Chri$tma$ as well foreshadowed 1961's Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America, Volume One around that both conjunct dialog & song in near musical-rather style. (1 could nearly believe Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin performing the large Broadway finish on "A Man Can't Be Too Careful What He Signs These Days"). So there wwhen this little exchange, as Freberg's Christopher Columbus is "discovered on beach here" by the Indigen Our contries played by Marvin Miller. Existence skeptical of the Indigen' diet of corn & "other organically grown vegetables", Columbus wants to open "America's first Italian restaurant" & needs to cash the prevent for began. Native: "You out of luck today. Banks closed." Columbus: "Oh? Why?" Native: "Columbus Day!" Columbus: "Oh, yeh." [pregnant pause] "We going out on that joke?" Native: "No, we do reprise of song. That help, but..." Columbus + Indigen: "...not much!"

When good deal of Freberg's writing was for radio, he likewise wrote & produced many legitimate television commercial message for products like:

Contadina tomato paste: "Who put eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?"

Jeno's pizza rolls: A parody of a contemporary commercial for Lark cigarettes that used the William Tell Overture, here ending with a confrontation between a cigarette smoker and Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger over the use of the music.

Sunsweet pitted prunes: Depicted as "the food of the future" inside the futurist setting, until science fiction icon Ray Bradbury (a friend of Freberg's) butts around: "I never mentioned prunes in any of my stories." An additional commercial message features Ronald Long as a picky eater: "They're still rather badly wrinkled, you know." ("Today the pits...tomorrow the wrinkles!")

Heinz Great American Soups: Ann Miller is a tap-dancing housewife whose husband asks, "Why do you always have to make such a big production out of everything?" At the time (1970), this was the most expensive commercial ever made — so expensive, in fact, that there was little money left over to buy air time for it.

Encyclopædia Britannica: The son within these commercial message is Freberg's boy Donavan. Freberg talks to him from either offscreen.

Now, these ad come considered classics by several critics, & Freberg is commonly credited when existence a 1st individual to with success introduce humor into television advertising. Freberg asserted that a truly funny commercial message that did non insult a intelligence of a viewer, & that maybe revealing a bit extra info all about a product than the advertizer think of, would draw the purchasing public inside droves. He was typically proven best: famously, a creator of Jeno's Pizzthe Rolls paid off the bet all over the profits of a Freberg ad campaign by drawing Freberg through wall street of San Francisco inside a rickshaw.

Freberg is however actively doing advertising & more projects now. Inside 1996 he released Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America, Volume Two. He is virtually all seeable these times when the persons of a syndicated anthology of old-time radio shows, When Radio Was.

Freberg as well played a J.B. Toppersmith character inside "Weird Al" Yankovic's The Weird Al Show.

Freberg recounts very much of his life & career, including his encounters sustaining indicate-biz legends like Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan & a struggles he endured using radio and TV networks for his material on the air, within his autobiography It Merely Hurts Once I personally Laugh (Days Books, 1988).