Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards
Biography
Cliff Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American pop singer, musician and actor. He enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes, including "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. Later in his career, he appeared in films and did voices for animated cartoons, and is well-remembered as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) (introducing the standard "When You Wish Upon a Star") and Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and Dandy Crow in Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941).
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
211 releases · 46 albums · active 1955–2018
- Performance · 292
- Other credits · 102
Studios: A.A. Records, Inc. · Tocano Studiet, Hørve
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Cliff Edwards
- Jiminy Cricket
- The Sandpipers (2)
- Judy Garland
- Unknown Artist
- Count Basie And His Orchestra
- Ladd's Black Aces