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Jimmy Weldon Dies: Voice Of Hanna-Barbera's Yakky Doodle Duck Was 99
Jimmy Weldon, a 1940s-era disc jockey and later kids TV host and voice
actor whose ability to mimic a Donald Duck-like quacking voice led to his
signature portrayal of a classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon duckling named
Yakky Doodle, died July 6 in Paso Robles, California. He was 99.
Weldon, a Texas native born Ivy Laverne Shinn, was a World War II vet who
had participated in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
when, after his military service, he sought work in radio, landing a job
at a Chickasha, Oklahoma, station. It was there he began using the Donal
Duck impression he'd been honing for years, turning the routine into a
character named Webster Webfoot.
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