Welcome to MusicDayz

The world's largest online archive of date-sorted music facts, bringing day-by-day facts instantly to your fingertips.
Find out what happened on your or your friends' Birthday, Wedding Day, Anniversary or just discover fun facts in musical areas that particularly interest you.
Please take a look around.

Fact #46930

When:

Short story:

Mae Questel best-remembered as the voice of Olive Oyl in the Popeye Cartoons, Betty Boop, Felix the Cat and Casper The Friendly Ghost, dies in New York City, USA, aged 89, from complications related to Alzheimer's disease. In the 1930s she released a recording of On the Good Ship Lollipop which sold more than two million copies, and billed as 'Mae Questel - Personality Singer of Personality Songs', she had also impersonated Fanny Brice, Marlene Dietrich, Eddie Cantor, Mae West, Maurice Chevalier and others.