Olivia Olson sings "Message to the Stars," an original song written for Gumby to celebrate his 50th year. The 14 year old child-star gives a captivating performance in a virtual collage of newly digitized Gumby cartoon episodes. This video release marks Gumby’s first step into the digital age. The whole song is online for everyone to enjoy on gumby.com.
San Francisco, CA, March 01, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Celebrate Gumby with this new music video release from Gumby's 50th Birthday. The project was developed by Missing Link Media Ventures' Joe Bretz and Richard Verdoni along with Premavision. Bretz and Verdoni met with Joe Clokey and other business associates one morning in Hollywood in mid 2005. The production was given a "green" light and off they went with eight weeks to prepare for Gumby's 50th Birthday Celebration. Everything came together for Gumby - Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby - his family, friends, Hollywood executives, generations of artists and animators that worked on Gumby cartoons, fans, performers, and the production crew.
13 year old Olivia Olson was hand picked to sing “Message to the Stars” by the song’s writer and Gumby Creative Director, Robert "Fred" Thompson. Prior to singing at Gumby’s 50th Birthday Party, Olivia Olson sang “All I Want for Christmas is You” in the movie, “Love Actually:” for many, her version is one of the most loved of this time honored song. Olivia’s amazing voice and professional manner enabled the song to be filmed in only 3 takes - quite amazing considering that she was lowered onto the stage on a hoop, from which she sang, before being raised again at the end of the song! Filmed in San Francisco, Olivia kept her sense of humor, no doubt a gift from her father, legendary comedy writer Martin Olson. The Sound Engineer, Gary Cambra, worked his magic to result in this heavenly “Gumby-worthy” sound and Verdoni and Clokey worked to integrate the right mix of never before released digitized version of Gumby cartoons.
