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
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] NLS narrators
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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