Ginny Tyler

Ginny Tyler (1924-2012) was a voice actress, often working for Disney, who was heard in Sesame Street segments produced for the fourth season. She voiced a woman presenting the award for best animal beginning with E and was heard reciting letters in "galaxy" segments where consonants zoomed in space (V, Z, and M).Documents provided by trusted source
Tyler began her career in local radio and went into television in 1951 on Seattle station KMO, hosting a children's show as Mother Goose. Moving to Hollywood later in the fifties, she did vocals for Olive Oyl on the Spike Jones 1957 cover of "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man." For Disney, she was the first storyteller voice for Disneyland records, sometimes in character (such as playing Lady in Lady and the Tramp) and played Christopher Robin in the earliest Winnie the Pooh recordings. She was also heard in Disney features and shorts, as singing lambs in Mary Poppins, the flirtatious girl squirrel in The Sword in the Stone, a burbling baby in the live-action Son of Flubber, and bees in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. In 1962, for a syndicated package of The Mickey Mouse Club re-runs, Tyler donned mouse ears to host new segments.
For Hanna-Barbera, Tyler was heard as a singing carhop in The Flintstones episode "The Drive-In," in regular roles on Space Ghost (Jan) and The Adventures of Gulliver (Flirtacia), and providing bird noises for the special Last of the Curlews. Bird sounds were a specialty, with Tyler dubbing most of Don Knotts' birdcalls in the comedy The Love God? and voicing talking birds of various species in Doctor Dolittle (Polynesia the parrot) and in episodes of Mister Ed, The Jack Benny Program, The Lucy Show, and Here's Lucy. Other cartoon credits included The New Casper Cartoon Show (Wendy the Good Little Witch), Davey and Goliath (Davey's mother and sister), and the 1970s The New Fantastic Four (Sue Richards/Invisible Girl).
==References==
*Sam and Friends included Tyler's vocals from Spike Jones projects, as Olive Oyl on "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" (opposite imitator Windy Cook as Popeye, used in 1957Shemin, Craig. Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson's First Television Show. p. 282) and "Ah-1, Ah-2, Ah-Sunset Strip" (from the 1960 album Omnibust, used the same year)ibid. p. 475. as the near beer lady (spoofing Lawrence Welk's champagne lady). She was credited respectively as Mary Virginia and Merrie Virginia (the latter being Tyler's given first and middle names).
==External links==
* Ginny Tyler at IMDb
*Disney Legends profile
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