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Fun fact: in the 1993 animated series The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the voice of Dr. Robotnik was performed by a famous English-Canadian blues singer named Long John Baldry. During his lifetime, Baldry produced over two dozen albums and had multiple Billboard-charting hits. After his move to Canada in the 1970s, he got into cartoon voice acting, taking on roles in shows like Star Wars: Droids, Captain N: The Game Master, ReBoot (did you ever wonder why Captain Capacitor sounded familiar?), and of course, Sonic the Hedgehog. In his personal life, he lived as openly gay starting in the early 1960s – a time when male homosexuality was still considered a jailable offence in the UK – and was reportedly friends with Elton John.

So every time you queue up a YouTube Poop? You’re hearing the voice of this man right here:

We’ll never know how Baldry would have felt about one of his most enduring pop-cultural legacies, as he died in 2004, several years before YTPs became well-known. I’d like to think, however, that he would have had a sense of humour about it!

#Are you telling me that this is the man responsible for pingas (via  @knightsblade)

Yes, Long John Baldry is indeed the man behind the pingas.

Apparently he was also the inspiration behind Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight.” Which, boy, that’s a weird mixture of cultural legacies to leave behind…