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McFadden "one of the elite of TV commercial voice-overs." Among his other works, he did ethnic characters for comedy albums including "The Yiddish Are Coming!". He also barked like a dog for Crest toothpaste.


This commercial would be played over a 25 year timespan. He said "Ring around the collar" and "Nice shirt". Bob McFadden's most memorable commercial was the voice of a parrot for Wisk. Once he was paid $12,000 to make swishing sounds to imitate a jet airplane. He made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling his voice to advertise products for Ban deodorant, Campbell soup, Ford, Frankenberry cereal, Geritol, Mountain Dew, and Pepto-Bismol. The McFaddens moved to Queens in the mid-1960s and Bob became a voiceover talent in advertising and cartoons. He met his wife Jeanette in Boston in 1950, when the two were working together while he sang onstage, she and her twin sister performed synchronized swimming exercises in a pool below. Although McFadden was not a household name, he was still happy just to be in show business. After leaving the Navy, he worked in a Pittsburgh steel mill, and got into show business as an opening act at hotels and nightclubs for the McGuire Sisters, Harry Belafonte, and others. Bob McFadden was born in East Liverpool, Ohio in 1923, and got his first break singing and doing impersonations in a weekly talent show while stationed in Puerto Rico with the Navy during World War II.
