actually, curt, Many of the masters for the records still exist. The records could be repressed and be as good quality as they were to begin with. when I talked to the president of AFB during my long search for the RSV bible, he said they had 20,000 masters which were "property of NLS" Now if some bureaucrat from NLS is monitoring this list he'll doubtless contact AFB tonight and asked that all these masters be destroyed.
"Gosh fellows, we don't have them any more."----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:13 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
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>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxPut the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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