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The California Raisins were a fictional rhythm and blues animated musical group as well as advertising and merchandising characters composed of anthropomorphized raisins. Lead vocals were sung by musician Buddy Miles. The California Raisins concept experienced high popularity in the mid-to-late 1980s principally through claymation TV commercials and animated specials, winning an Emmy Award and one nomination.

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The California Raisin Show is an animated television series based on the claymation advertising characters The California Raisins. The show is based on the claymation special, Meet the Raisins!, which originally aired on CBS in 1988. After the show's 13-episode run, a sequel to the original special, Raisins: Sold Out!: The California Raisins II, aired in 1990.

Vinton was the genius behind claymation characters like the California Raisins, the Domino’s Noid, and the M&M’s before they were taken over by CGI. Vinton died yesterday of cancer after a 12-year fight. The claymation of Vinton helped define an era of popular media, with the singing California Raisins, an incredible hit that started as a TV ad for the California Raisin Advisory Board in 1986. The raisin characters, known for singing Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine, were so popular that they appeared on everything from lunchboxes and t-shirts to spin-off video games for Nintendo. But the California Raisins weren’t Vinton’s first hit. Vinton won an Academy Award for his work co-directing the 1974 short film Closed Mondays.

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