Sparky was portrayed in the first three episodes in the series by Henry Blair, but was later voiced by Lee LeDoux and June Foray.
The series also featured many voices familiar to fans of Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons, as well as notable Capitol music artists, such as Stan Kenton.
Vinyl 78 versions are more common, with purple Capitol labels and sometimes a “Bozo Approved” logo in the corner of the album cover.
The animated version was directed by Lee Mishkin, produced and co-written by Alan Livingston (who also voices the piano), and features an expanded story running 48 minutes.
The voice cast includes Vincent Price, Coral Browne, Tony Curtis, Cloris Leachman, Josh Rodine, Mel Blanc, and William Schallert, with orchestration by Lalo Schifrin and piano music by Leonard Pennario.
Animation was done by Pacific Rim Productions, a company set up by Livingston in 1987, in order for him to have complete control over his project.
[1][2] In 1978, Mancunian folk poet Les Barker released a comic parody entitled 'Sparky's Magic Contraceptive' on his live album, 'Mrs.
On the sleeve notes of All Over The World: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne writes that he sometimes heard Sparky's Magic Piano on the radio when he was young.
When he was creating "Mr. Blue Sky" in the studio in Stuttgart he came across a vocoder, the machine that made the piano talk, and included it on the backing track.