Description Celebrating the one and only Mel Blanc! Born #otd 1908. Started his radio career here in Portland Oregon on KGW on a program called 'Hoot Owls' in the late 1920s. He had a near fatal car accident in 1961. For a year he did the voice of Barney Rubble in a bed at home with the rest of the Flintstones cast standing around him....