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Oh Yeaaaaah! Meet The Voice Of The Kool-Aid Man

Actor and singer Frank Simms also sang background vocals for David Bowie.
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Senior Reporter, HuffPost

The Kool-Aid Man: One of the most baffling, beloved and iconic of America’s soft drink mascots.

For decades, the anthropomorphic pitcher smashed through walls and yelled "Oh yeaaaaah!" But just who was the human behind the mascot's distinctive voice? 

In this viral Great Big Story video, watch as actor and singer Frank Simms explains how he made the Kool-Aid Man's voice his own. 

Simms, who also voiced Honeycomb Cereal's The Craver and sung background vocals for David Bowie, Madonna and Billy Joel, was the voice for the Kool-Aid Man for 15 years.

"I've had several people say, 'It's hard to picture that that voice is actually coming from you, the human being,'" he quipped in the clip. 

Watch the video above; then scroll down for some examples of Simms' Kool-Aid Man voice-work. 

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Before You Go

Top 10 Weird News Stories 2015
1. Alien Cat and Other Strange Visitors(01 of10)
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So many strange critters haunted the headlines this year that Earth seemed like Westeros. Matilda, a 2-year-old rescue kitty, became Internet famous as "the alien cat," though her giant eyes had nothing to do with ET abduction. At least one zombie cat rose from its grave. And everyone wanted an adorable, genetically mutated werewolf kitten. In other beastly news, Johnny Depp complained that he was "attacked by a chupacabra." A Lizard Man reportedly emerged from a South Carolina swamp. And a UFO was photographed over Loch Ness, perhaps on a mission to find the legendary beast. (credit:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/aliencatmatilda/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="instagram.com/aliencatmatilda" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="57304824e4b016f378963706" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.instagram.com/aliencatmatilda/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="48" data-vars-position-in-unit="55">instagram.com/aliencatmatilda</a>)
2. Things That Look Like Donald Trump(02 of10)
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Soon after Trump jumped into the presidential race, we found 11 animals that share his aggressive comb-over. One woman found the real estate mogul's visage in a tub of vegan butter. Tumbler user HomoPoer immortalised Trump in an intricate Dick Pic Mosaic. And an enterprising Florida artist turned the Donald into a $28 butt plug. For a dollar less, however, smart shoppers could purchase anal inserts inspired by Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. (credit:JAN CASTELLANO/GETTY IMAGES)
3. The Animal Uprising(03 of10)
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Didn't we know this was coming? The animal world is fed up with humanity and is actively conspiring against us. It's not just that lions are opening car doors, and monkeys are drop-kicking obnoxious guys who give them the finger. In Texas, an 800-pound "Godzilla"-gator terrorized a shopping center, while a really buff kangaroo intimidated Brisbane suburbanites with its bulging muscles. In other terrifying encroachment wars, a snail took up residence in a little boy's knee, while spiders threatened to cause us long, painful erections. As the year ends, we're forced to face the fact that huskies take better selfies than we do. And when we attempt daring photos with rattlesnakes, the medical bills can top $150,000. Why can't we all be as happy as the woman who's been married to her two cats for more than a decade? If you're at all worried, relax with some panda porn. Yeah, they're better than us at that, too. (credit:Stevo Dirnberger and Chanel Cartell)
4. Where Will They Have Sex Next?(04 of10)
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If the prying eye of social media has proven one thing, it's that people will have sex anywhere, at any time, in front of anyone. Kendra Sunderland was just another Oregon State University student until she streamed a masturbation session live from a school library, and quickly became a porn sensation, telling us later that a career in adult entertainment trumps a lifetime of college loans. In other naked news, couples were caught having sex on the Cannes red carpet and at a California strip mall in broad daylight. One art student spent an entire week naked in a glass tank for a class project, only to get caught pleasuring himself on YouTube. And a "screaming and shouting" English woman was sent to jail over loud sex. (credit:XNXX)
5. 'Taste The Bush' Fashion Statements(05 of10)
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Look where that wine glass is. Just look. That's apparently what Premier Estates Wine wanted in its curiously titled "Taste the Bush" campaign. Gonads figured big this year in weird fashion. Australian news anchor Natarsha Belling's phallic-necklined green jacket became a social media sensation, and the so-called "Vagina Dress" had all kinds of lips moving. (credit:Premier Estates Wine)
6. Anger Mismanagement(06 of10)
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Just because the sign at Denny's says, "All You Can Eat," it doesn't mean you can feed your friends. That seems rather obvious, but a flapjack fight in Illinois was one of many weird news dustups that could and should have been avoided. Minnie Mouse and Hello Kitty duked it out in Times Square, a Pennsylvania man was fired apparently for farting too much at work, and a UConn student needed to be physically restrained because a school cafeteria just wouldn't give him "some f--king bacon, jalapeno mac and cheese." (credit:YouTube)
7. Identical Twin Strangers(07 of10)
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Another 2015 trend: Strangers who look like identical twins. Ciara Murphy and Cordelia Roberts were both studying abroad at Germany's Bremen University when they found a mirror image in one another. Photographer Neil Thomas Douglas took a Ryanair flight to Galway and found his near-perfect twin sitting right next to him. After something similar happened to Niamh Geaney from Dublin, the "Twin Strangers" contest was born, and ever since, we've been seeing double. (credit:Facebook)
8. Knitwit Achievements(08 of10)
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You think you've seen it all before, and then you see the "Knit Your Own Kama Sutra." We simply live in a great time to be horny. Sex dolls are now talking back, and sex toys are programmed to act like porn stars. And if you shake your moneymaker enough, a British artist will cast your anus in bronze ... for just $1,900. (credit:Courtesy of Harper Collins Publishing)
9. Twerks And Jerks Caught On Tape(09 of10)
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2015 will be remembered as the year in which somebody finally got arrested for twerking. Two D.C. women were caught on tape aggressively gyrating and rubbing themselves against a man at a convenience store. Another Einstein was seen on security footage trying to throw a brick through a car window, only for the brick to bounce back, knocking the man unconscious. (credit:DC Metropolitan Police)
10. To End On A High Note(10 of10)
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In 2015, more Americans than ever before smoked marijuana legally, and as trained observers of weird news and strange crime, we made this observation -- nothing changed.

A man walked around for three hours without realizing he had a knife in his skull, another man heard his penis "snap" during sex, and a woman augmented her record-setting size 32-Z breasts -- and none of this had anything to do with pot. Nor did weed inspire a guy to tie 110 helium balloons to his lawn chair so that he would float a mile high over the Calgary, Canada, sky as a stunt to promote his cleaning products business.

Of course, anything can be abused. Cops in Austintown, Ohio, responded to a 911 call from a guy who said he was, "too high." They indeed found him in a fetal position under a mountain of "Doritos, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish and Chips Ahoy cookies."

But that's probably not why Ohio voted against legal marijuana.

As we celebrated with Tommy Chong at the January launch party for his Futurola Roller, he told us that the war on marijuana was over and that "we totally won."

Of course, if a certain yellow-haired casino owner sits in the Oval Office after next year's election, maybe we'll reassess. (credit:Futurola)
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