Singer/actor Cliff Edwards was #BornOnThisDay June 14, 1895. Remembered in 2 #Disney films; as the voice for "Jiminy Cricket" in Pinocchio (1940) & "Dandy Crow" in Dumbo (1941). Battling drug addiction, #alcoholism & poverty, he passed in 1971 (age 76) from a heart attack #RIP

Cliff Edwards - Singin' In The Rain 1929 Ukulele Ike

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Columbia 5559 - This Was A #1 Hit On The US Music Charts For Cliff Edwards In 1929. Recorded 5-28-1928 -
Song written by Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed.
From Talking Picture Production "Hollywood Revue of 1928"
Cliff Edwards (June 14, 1895 -- July 17, 1971), also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and voice actor who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940).

Cliff Edwards - When You Wish Upon A Star 1940 Ukulele Ike

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Cliff Edwards (June 14, 1895 -- July 17, 1971), also known as "Ukulele Ike", was an American singer and voice actor who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940). Edwards suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction in his later years, living in a home for indigent actors. He had disappeared from the public eye at the time of his 1971 death as a charity patient at the Virgil Convalescent Hospital in Hollywood, California. His body was initially unclaimed and donated to the University of California, Los Angeles medical school. When Walt Disney Productions, which had been quietly paying many of his medical expenses, found out about this, it offered to purchase the corpse and pay for the burial; but this was actually done by the Actors' Fund of America (which had also aided Edwards) and the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. The Disney company paid for his grave marker.