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[mmcirvin]

Marc Fisher heralds the expansion of the Carvel ice-cream franchise in DC, several people clarify that it was in the area all along, and a commenter identifying himself only as "Tom Carvel" mentions that the ads featuring the real Tom Carvel's ravaged voice used to run all the time on WDCA-20 in between the Jhoon Rhee martial arts ads, as partiallyclips and others can undoubtedly confirm.

The nature of Carvel's ads tended to make people think they were a purely local phenomenon. I can crack Sam up by launching into a sixteen-pack-a-day spiel about Fudgie the Whale, and she was initially surprised that he wasn't just a New England institution.

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[manfire.livejournal.com]

Carvel is nice enough to include some old commercials on their Web site too.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Which reveal that memory and parody have exaggerated the gravelly nature of his voice, as often happens with distinctive voices.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...Hmm, his voice is more intensely nodular in some of the clips than in others. Probably it increased over time; certainly the ones I remember are from the very end of his life.

throat cancer IIRC

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

I don't think he was even in the commercials in his last five years.