Behold! I have just watched "The Hobbitt"

[short bus president]

Circa 1970-something, animated, with soundtrack apparently performed by Joan Baez's baby brother, Quavery McVibratoLarynx.

Excellent animated movie. With a horrid, horrid soundtrack. Although the ONLY thing I remembered from it was the song about "strange little birds" in the trees when Bilbo and the Dwarves were trying to escape the trolls. That, and the part with Gollum being really creepy. I used to have the 45 record and little booklet that came out after this movie was released. Some 2.5 decades ago, I guess. I feel so nostalgic. Then I think of that godawful vibratovoice hippy-ass soundtrack, and get right the hell over it.

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. I actually liked the Rankin/Bass Hobbit

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead...

the singing always made me cringe though.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. I loved it!

I still remember it from when it first came out.
BTW just being anal-Bilbo and the dwarves were escaping goblins during that scene. The troll scene occurred much earlier. As you can tell from my sig pic, I am a Hobbithead.

[short bus president]

5. Hey, some of my favorite things on Earth

are anal. ;-)

Besides - dwarves and goblins and trolls - oh my! It's all too much to keep track of. Especially while trying to avoid the nightmarish warblings of that soundtrack dude.

[mikehiggins]

3. Richard Boone voiced Smaug the Dragon

That was the neatest dragon I ever did see, and his voice was just drippping, well, evil.

I still don't buy that "magic arrow" crap. By rights he should have toasted the whole town.

It was a fix!

[short bus president]

6. Richard Boone as Smaug, yes

Who was John Huston? And why did the lead human guy, the Smaug-killer, sound just like Captain Murphy from Sealab?

[No2W2004]

9. Warbly voice was Glenn Yarbrough

John Huston .... Gandalf the Grey (voice)
Otto Preminger .... Elvenking (voice)
Cyril Ritchard .... Elrond (voice)
Brother Theodore.... Gollum (voice) (as Theodore)
Paul Frees .... Bombur/Troll #1 (voice)
Don Messick .... Balin/Troll #3/Goblin/Lord of the Eagles (voice)
John Stephenson .... Dori/Great Goblin/Bard (voice)
Orson Bean .... Bilbo Baggins (voice)
Richard Boone .... Smaug (voice)
Hans Conried .... Thorin (voice)
Thurl Ravenscroft.... Goblin/Background Voice (voice) (uncredited)

[DS1]

4. I watched "The Balled of Bilbo Baggins" the other day, Spock himself

Lenny N.

Those crazy 70s

[sundog]

7. the greatest adventure is what lies ahead...

I actually watched it once with a girl who started screaming when she saw Bilbo in the top of the tree with all the butterflies around him :wtf: :shrug:

[short bus president]

8. I started screaming when I heard

the theme song guy kick back in with his second song. Then I knew I was gonna have to suffer through that ear-curdling warbling crap through the end of the movie.

They should've gotten Plant and Page to do the soundtrack to this!

[sundog]

10. The guy who sings on that shit...

has got that vibrato thing a little bit out of hand don't cha think?? I mean, get a grip dude. "Let go of the mold that life makes you hold."

[short bus president]

11. Seriously.

The lyric you provide, for instance, should have 10 syllables. Not 749.

[No2W2004]

12. Glenn Yarbrough:

Lead singer with The Limeliters

Prolific recording artist, on his own and with the Limeliters, on Elektra, RCA Victor, Warner Brothers, Brass Dolphin, and Folk Era records. His biggest solo hit was "Baby, the Rain Must Fall" on RCA, a top-ten hit in 1965.

Father of singer Holly Yarbrough.

He's also "the minstrel" in the Rankin/Bass version of "The Return of the King"

[roguevalley]

13. God, I love that dog! I saved him the first time I saw him. Kiss his

noble little butt for me. :)

[Aristus]

14. I'm pretty sure that Christopher Guest in "A Mighty Wind" was

parodying Glenn Yarbrough. No need. Yarbrough was his own parody.