Paudio

Story by: Gail Nobles
Cover Art by: Gail Nobles
Keyboardist: Gail Nobles

Hello I'm Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Paudio the Source of Sound. Growing up as a child I loved the cartoon Woody Woodpecker. I have a little golden book by Walter Lantz titled with “Woody Woodpecker at the Circus.” I loved watching the cartoons and hearing the laugh of Woody.

I asked : How did they make Woody laugh like that?” He had a unique laugh like Porky Pig had a unique stutter. I remember Woody Woodpecker as a bird that was mischievous.

There is a real woodpecker that comes around sometimes in my yard. As a child, I never thought I'd see a real one. The woodpecker had a knock loud enough that I could hear him with my windows closed. He put holes all the way up my pecan tree.

I thought: That woodpecker got to go.” But there was one tree I was glad he peaked on some. The woodpecker had a powerful beak.

When I hear that woodpecker, I think of the cartoon Woody Woodpecker. I remember the cartoon in the 70s where he was created in 1940 by Walter Lantz and appeared in theatrical short films and distributed by Universal Pictures between 1940 and 1972.