[bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators

  • From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:31:52 -0500

Bud Abbot of Abbot and castello fame narrated talking books as well.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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No, Alexander Scourby was, though, believe it or not, even on the rifle man TV series as a reporter who wanted sensational "gun fights," which got Lukus
McKaine involved in one.
I don't believe Orson Wells ever did narrate for us, but many old radio
people did e.g. Leon Janney, Ralph Bell, Helen Shields, Robert Donley,
Norman Rose, George Walsh, and many dozen more.

Curtis Delzer
----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Oh, you guys are making me feel so sad. I remember
Alexander Scourby, though I don't remember what or
where or why, but I'm so sorry I missed out on the
others. I probably did hear them in radio dramas--and
some of those are still broadcast on some stations at
night. And some are available online. My husband and I
had a discussion about The Shadow and we ended up,
after finding it, listening to two episodes on line. I
didn't realize that Orson Welles had ever "been" the
Shadow. Did he narrate any NLS tapes?

G.Cindy

--- Curtis Delzer <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

He read "the call of the wild," House Jameson I
mean, I happen to have that
one. :) Sometimes he could sound a bit prissy, I
suppose, <grin> or if you
want prissy, how about Donald Hotaling? :) I have
him reading "report from
engine company 82," again, re-issued by nls read by
someone else. Such a
shame when all it is, is the fact they did not
preserve the original master
tapes, so it's all wasted, or mostly so.
Now, there is a disaster, all that talent, gone,
except preserved in
personal collections, as I have of Ralph Bell and
the Rex Stout series about
Nero Wolf, original recordings of Arthur Haileys
books except for Wheels
which I want an audio recording of, and with NLS had
recorded "Detective,"
his last major work before his death in 2004, etc.
How about the original
recording of "To Kill a Mockingbird," as narrated by
Helen Shields, which is
without doubt, the best ever done, as far as I am
concerned.
Too young to remember Helen Shields? See what I
mean, out of mind, out of
sight or unresolved potential, since you have no
idea what an absolute
treasure these narrators were, and are to those of
us who, have heard and
appreciated and still appreciate them in memory.
Newest is not better, only
relief from not having. All these narrators, had
acting and performing
experience before microphones, so they had to, "be
there," in their voices,
unlike the narrators of today who just narrate.
There are many excellent
readers of today, but anyone who thinks Michelle
Schafer is any kind of
professional compared to being on radio, is lacking
in having heard much
radio when it was as big as TV and CDs are these
days. Sorry Michelle, but
you need to go back to school as far as presentation
is concerned. She can
read, but so many affected attributes, I couldn't
even begin to mention them
all.

Curtis Delzer

----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Roderick" <rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:48 AM
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Another narrator that was in old-time radio was
House Jameson.  I believe he
played the father of Henry Aldrich.  He did a
masterful job with both Gone
with the Wind and All the King's Men.  He was quite
good at truly sounding
Southern.  I suspect he was from the South, but when
he did the Aldrich
character, he did not sound particularly Southern.
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