Gabby (film series) most Gabby cartoons can be found in faded public domain television prints, usually featuring National Telefilm Associates openings. Gabby (film series) Gabby was a Max Fleischer animated cartoon series distributed through Paramount Pictures. Gabby debuted as the town crier in the 1939 animated feature "Gulliver’s Travels" produced by Fleischer. Shortly afterward Paramount and Fleischer gave Gabby his own Technicolor spinoff cartoon series, eight entries of which were produced between 1940 and 1941. Gabby was voiced by Pinto Colvig, the voice of Walt Disney's Goofy, and Grumpy and Sleepy from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Jack Mercer (the voice of
Gabby Pahinui and a central figure – maybe THE central figure – of the Hawaiian Renaissance in the '70s, but that he was an inspiration to others. Thousands of Hawaiian kids learned that they were worthy as a people because of Gabby's example." Gabby was mentioned in Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's famous performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" on his 1993 "Facing Future" album. In the opening moments of the song, Kamakawiwo'ole can be heard saying, "'Kay, this one's for Gabby." Pahinui received the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Artists Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. He received a second Hawai'i Academy of