Hal Aaron Cohen, musician, singer songwriter and podcaster
Michael Winslow Show Notes
Talking Points:
Twitter handle @Noizey_Man
Grew up on several Air Force bases
Moved around a lot as a kid.
Killed the boredom by imitating the sounds of machinery around the military bases.
Including typewriters. Take this video for example…
32 Typewriters??? I couldn’t tell the difference between a Remington Noiseless Portable or a IBM Executive Model 42 or a Smith Corona Word processor
Books:
Whack to the Side of the Head
Kick to the Seat of the Pants
Lesson learned - there’s more than one right answer
Tik Tok
Jimi Hendrix
Comics stealing jokes.
Robin Williams
Multiple languages
Cheech and Chong no longer PC?
But what makes your impressions so unique are the facial expressions. You seem to be listening to the headphones, where i imagine someone is feeding you the recording for reference
The afterwards, you look at the two mics as if you’re trying to decide which one to eat first.
Did your parents ever try to discourage you/ I mean, making all those sounds around the house s a little kid, didn’t yell, Hey Mikey, cut it out, I’m trying to watch Star Trek here, and you’d be making laser gun sounds. At what point did your mom or dad say, Hey now — THERE’S a career! Looks like you won’t be needing college, son.
List of noises:
’Scuse me while I kiss this guy - attribution. Michael was the first that I know of to use that line.
Matre D’ at the Great American and Poppy’s Star (along with Alan "Walk This Way" Feinman as Groucho, and Billy Scudder as Charlie Chaplain)
Dupars after Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie
Sky Trails Open Mic
My Sharona
Just What I Needed by the Cars
Michael Winslow and folk pop-musician Odd Nordstoga performed Whole Lotta Love on the Norwegian talkshow Senkveld - with Thomas og Harald
The Russia Story
Slight incident while filming Police Academy: Mission to Moscow in Russia
Completely unexpected. It was a total delight seeing you pop up in a cameo! My rating went up a star.
Mention on THE GOLDBERGS…
Dana: I don't get it. This is part 5. Shouldn't they have graduated the Academy after the first one?Adam: I think the problem is you're focusing on logic, not the lovable cast of characters. Dana: Okay, in what world would an officer of the law stop a jewel thief by making weird mouth noises?Adam: That's Michael Winslow. He's a national treasure.Dana: They're LAPD. They wouldn't have any jurisdiction in Miami.
Referenced on other shows: Ellen, Family Guy, Robot Chicken (Police Academy: X-Men)
You’ve done sound fx for many tv and movies. What are some of the things where we are actually hearing your voices? Do you have any favorites?
The very best of the 60s. 80s
Voice insured by Lloyd’s of London with Mary Hart’s legs
Eddie Van Halen and Michael jamming too loud at the Namm Show
Recently Live on Twitch
Sound Effects in Video games
Phasmaphoria
Among Us
Links
Michael Winslow Youtube Channel