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If I stay here with you girlThings just couldn't be the same'Cause Stan Freberg is Dead NowAnd Freberg is in a Grave

Stan Freberg, the satirical ad man who tried to boost sales for Pacific Air Lines following a 1964 plane crash that killed all 44 people on board with ads saying the pilots were just as afraid as the passengers and handing out survival kits with luck rabbit’s feet, has died at the age of 88. You may have noticed you’ve never heard of Pacific Air Lines. Despite that misstep, he was considered one of the finest ad men this side of Don Draper, Darrin Stephens and Roger Thornhill, winning 21 Clios, the top award in the industry, though his unorthodox style kept him out of the Advertising Hall of Fame, which apparently is a thing. One commercial for Chun King Chow Mein featured an announcer declaring, “Nine out of 10 doctors prefer Chun King,” followed by the camera panning to show nine Asian ‘doctors’ and one Caucasian. When not trying to give people a reason to stop going to the bathroom while watching TV and for reading around the articles in the newspaper, he made a number of hit comedy records, including “Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America,” considered one of the best comedy albums ever recorded, and voiced hundreds of cartoon characters, including Cecil, from the Beany and Cecil show, one of the Goofy Gophers, a beaver in “Lady and the Tramp,” and Pete Puma. George Lucas had tabbed Freberg to voice C-3PO for Star Wars before Freberg suggested letting Anthony Daniels, the man in the costume, provide the voice himself. He also was the last comedian on commercial radio with his own program, having inherited Jack Benny’s slot on CBS Radio in 1957, before getting canceled after telling jokes about the hydrogen bomb and refusing tobacco advertisements.