 He was just able to do that, to just totally animate with his voice, to create a complete three-dimensional character just with his voice alone. I say, that's no chicken, son. I'm a chicken. Rooster that is. How can you beat a pair of vocal cords that had an eight-octave range, perfect pitch, great singer, and an incredible actor? There's Mel, and there's, like, everybody else. There was nobody better than Mel Blanc.